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As the short list for the Man Asian Literary Prize was announced last night, we look at the year ahead for publishing in Asia, with Marysia Juszczakiewicz from the Peony Literary Agency, and Paul Kenny who is boss of the newly opened Hong Kong office for the publisher Hachette.
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EF 'Fred' Benson was a character as extraordinary as any of his creations. Best known for the 'Lucia' books set in a small seaside town in the South of England in the 1920s he was a violently productive writer (100 books including 70 novels), a man with unusual skills (he ice-skated for Britain and had HP Lovecraft as a fan), and a son of the Archbishop of...
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A book chronicling the famine that killed some 45-million Chinese people under the rule of Chairman Mao has been awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes.
"Mao's Great Famine" by Frank Dikotter details the effects of the Great Leap Forward -- Chairman Mao's rush to turn China into an industrial...
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More than 90 Australian authors have signed a letter protesting against China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated novelists because he was HIV-positive.
Robert Dessaix, whose 1996 novel "Night Letters" dealt with the European travels of a man diagnosed with an incurable disease, was refused permission to attend the International...
Catergories: Book
China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan,...
Catergories: Book
This is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse more personal. It is unmistakably a Kennard book (the wolf appears here in his sixth outing), but there is also a striving to turn away from the self-referential games and literary in-jokes...
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Selected Poems is the first full selection of James Fenton's poems to be published, and represents the whole range of his work from light-verse to political and love poems to opera libretti. It includes early work from The Memory of War and Children in Exile as well as later work from Out of Danger, which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1994. Also represented are...
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An outspoken Chinese writer and government critic says he has been blocked from leaving the country to participate in Europe's largest international literary festival in Cologne.
Liao Yiwu, 52, said he was already on the plane in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Monday (1.3.2010) when a flight attendant told him people were looking for him. "A large group of...
Catergories: Interviews
On Morning Brew Phil Whelan chats with Professor David Parker, who is the Executive Director of the Man Asian Literary Prize about this years' long list of the prize.
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Catergories: Interviews
Sarah Passmore was joined by Dr. Johnson Kendall to review The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe, one of the shortlisted books of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
