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One-hundred years ago, the immortal Indian literary figure Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European and first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature. On the eve of a global world war, 1913 was an extremely busy year for the Bengali ...

Author Adam Johnson has been awarded America's highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer for his work, The Orphan Master's Son (published by Random House), a fictional story of life in North Korea under a repressive regime. Published just after Kim ...

On now until May 22, the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature held its Opening Night (sponsored by One Fine Stay) last evening at the Commonwealth Club in Central London, a stone's throw away from Trafalgar Square. Monty Python ...

British writer Hilary Mantel, who has already made literary history by winning the Booker Prize and the prestigious Costa Book of the Year Award for Bring Up The Bodies, is now in the race to win the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her ...

Tash Aw's Five Star Billionarie The hungers and furies of the exploding Asian metropolis are all the literary rage. Aravind Adiga gave aspiring India a ferocious, vengeful voice in his 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel, The White Tiger.

Author Tan Twang Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia's top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Tan won the $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize with The Garden of Evening ...

YANLianke, Author and Professor, Dept. of Literature, Renmin University in Beijing, China Sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) Location: John Hope Franklin Center 240 - Map When: YAN Lianke is ...

Australia leads with 28 shortlisted entries, followed by China (23), India (15), Singapore (12), Thailand and Hong Kong (11 each), New Zealand (8), South Korea (6), Philippines and Japan (5 each), Taiwan and Malaysia (4 each), Vietnam (3) and ...

Best of Young British Novelists 4 John Freeman (ed) Granta, pp.256, £12.99, ISBN: 9781905881673 The literary magazine Granta had the bright idea, in 1983, of promoting 20 British novelists under 40 by announcing that they were the best around. The ...