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Category Archive: history of literature

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Writing in the shadows of Japan’s literary giants

We are not sure of the exact date, but we know it happened on a Thursday in the […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane March 7, 2018 Asian writing, Authors, books, cinema, history of literature, Japanese literature

Great Indonesian Literature: Tales of Panji

The stories of Javanese cultural hero, Prince Panji Inu Kertapati, dating from the 13th century, mark the development […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane December 1, 2017 Asian writing, Features, Fiction, history of literature, Indonesian literature

Modernisation and its Discontents: Contemporary Thai Writing

I often ask myself and others: why has so little Thai literature been translated? We are a country […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane November 27, 2017 Asian writing, Authors, history of literature, Online literature, Thai literature, Translation

What we can learn from multiple translations of the same poem

Translating a poem into another language—its content, its form, its tone, its nuance—is, as almost everyone who has […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane November 14, 2017 history of literature, opinion, Poetry, Translations

The Legacy and Works of Lu Xun — The Father of Modern Chinese Literature

Lu Xun (鲁迅) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (周树人), one of China’s most famous fiction authors, […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane November 1, 2017 Asian writing, Authors, biography, Chinese Literature, history of literature

Life and Times of Literary Magazines

 Bangladesh’s English language literature over the years … Ironically, it was the 1947 Partition and the carving out […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane October 8, 2017 Asian writing, Bangladesh's English literature, Essay, Fiction, history of literature, opinion, publishing

How the visual arts shaped Japan’s modern literature

By the turn of the 20th century, “sketching from life” had become such a popular literary form that […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane October 2, 2017 Book, Essay, Fiction, history of literature, Japanese literature, opinion

A.K. Ramanujan: A Lonely Hero

The narrative around the pioneering Indian English poet and translator must rescue him from his image of a […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane September 28, 2017 Authors, Awards, biography, history of literature, opinion, Poetry, Tamil, Translation

Modern Burmese Literature — Its Background in the Independence Movement

FLASHBACK A look at the history of modern Burmese literature from The Atlantic‘s February 1958 issue. It was […]

Sucharita Dutta-Asane September 22, 2017 Authors, biography, Book, Burmese literature, Essay, Fiction, history of literature, publishing
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