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Saturday, 4 May 2019

Melissa De Silva talks to Elaine Chiew about 'others', discovering her ancestry in Malacca, and making pineapple tarts.

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Melissa De Silva at her writing residency at Hikayat, Penang's Georgetown, May 2019. Photo courtesy of William Tham. Biography: ...
Friday, 3 May 2019

Khaled Lutfi awarded 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire

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Imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lutfi has been selected for International Publishers Association’s (IPA) 2019 Prix Voltaire which suppo...
Thursday, 2 May 2019

Tsundoku #4 – May 2019

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Welcome to issue 3 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more teeter...
Saturday, 27 April 2019

Indie Spotlight: Researching the Raj - Ann Bennett

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In this post I talk about my fascination for India, and my research into the British Raj for my novel 'The Foundling's Daughter....
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Presenting Allison Markin Powell, literary translator from Japanese

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This month, Nicky Harman interviews Allison Markin Powell . Allison is a literary translator and editor and publishing consultant who tr...
Friday, 19 April 2019

Viewpoint: Mona Dash

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Viewpoint invites authors to write about anything they want, as long as it's of interest to readers of Asian Books Blog. Here, Mona D...
Monday, 15 April 2019

Writing with Heart, Humour, and Honesty: An Interview with M SHANmughalingam

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Award-winning author Dato’ Dr M SHANmughalingam —or Dato' Shan, as he is affably known—had his first solo collection of short stories la...