Gunter Grass died yesterday.  Here are six of the many obituaries being published around the world. The Guardian (UK) The New York Times...

Bad luck to PP Wong ( The Life of a Banana ) and to Xiaolu Gu ( I Am China ) who were both on the longlist for The Bailey's Women's ...

Griffith Review  is Australia’s leading literary quarterly . Each issue is themed. Recent editions have covered topics as varied as renew...

Ann Bennett’s novel Bamboo Heart won the inaugural Asian Books Blog Book of The Lunar Year Award, for the Year of the Horse – click here...

Congratulations to Dorothy Tse and translator Nicky Harman ( Snow and Shadow ),and to Can Xue and translator Annelise Finegan Wasmoen ( The...

Asian Books Blog is not a review site. If you want reviews, see the  Asian Review of Books . Here is a list of its newest reviews and roun...

The Hindu Prize shines a light on  the best Indian fiction in English every year. It is run by The Hindu newspaper, which now invites submi...