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		<title>Romesh Gunesekera</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Asian Writer caught up with Romesh Gunesekera ahead of his appearance at the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Asian Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature takes place in May. Now in its sixth year, the festival celebrates writing about Asia and Asians from the Persian Gulfto the Pacific.
Hardeep Singh Kohli kicks off proceedings with a talk on Food of the Grand Trunk Road. The festival will embrace Sri Lanka as its focus – from food to dance. Writers Romesh Gunesekera, Shehan Karunatilaka (winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012) and Roshi Fernando will be joined by BBC presenter George Alagiah to discuss contemporary Sri Lankan writing.
Festival ...]]></description>
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		<title>Roshi Fernando</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Asian Writer caught up with Roshi Fernando to find out more about the life of a short story writer...]]></description>
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		<title>Southbank&#8217;s Alchemy Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southbank Centre&#8217;s third annual Alchemy festival returns with another potent mix of music, dance, literature, film, fashion and design that will cast an illuminating light on the fast-changing economic and cultural landscape of the Indian subcontinent. In a first for Alchemy, 2012 sees Southbank Centre&#8217;s riverside venues and spaces become a film set, complete with a Taste of India food market, and festival-goers can enrol as dancing and singing extras in a Bollywood-style movie to be made throughout the festival and screened as a finale.
With a particular focus on Pakistan, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kyung-sook Shin becomes first female to win Man Asian Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyung-sook Shin  become the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize, Asia’s most prestigious award for writers, for her novel ‘Please Look After Mom’. (15th March, 2012)
The South Korean novelist attended the black tie Prize Dinner at The Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong to receive the award of US$30,000. The translator of the novel, Chi-Young Kim also received US$5,000.
The win is the first for a South Korean writer, and ‘Please Look After Mom’ is the first novel by a South Korean to make it to the Man Asian ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sanjida O&#8217;Connell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Asian Writer caught up with Sanjida O'Connell to talk about stepping outside of the mould of "ethnic literature"...]]></description>
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		<title>Safiya Hussain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Q. Please tell us about your book, Three Thousand Miles for a Wish?
My book is about my journey to Mecca on the Hajj in a quest to find happiness. It is a unique story that covers the experience of Hajj from a very personal and emotional perspective.
Q. Why did you decide to write your story?
I was blown away by this journey. As soon as I arrived back into the UK from Saudi Arabia I said; &#8216;My God, I have got to put pen to paper and write about this. And ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hardeep Singh Kohli</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Hardeep Singh Kohli, writer, broadcaster and Celebrity Masterchef finalist, is planing a cookery book with a difference on crowd-funded publisher Unbound.co.uk


A Month of Sundays will chart his journeys over the next nine months as he answers culinary call outs from people around the country. Readers can makes suggestions to Hardeep through the Unbound.co.uk website. Each week he’ll make the journey to cook up a feast for the most interesting ones, serving up delicious food in homes, workplaces, village halls and sports grounds across the UK.


Romantic dinners for two, village feasts, boardroom lunches, street parties, post-match curries, family reunions and birthday suppers, all suggestions will be considered - the more ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Asian Writer Short Story Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;re approaching our fifth anniversary I&#8217;m pleased to announce a new short story competition to showcase the best of Asian writing. We&#8217;re looking for short stories of up to 3,000 words in length on any theme but which include the word five. Winning entries will be presented in a published collection. £15 per entry, max three. All submitted entries must be new and original fiction.
By submitting your entry to us you agree to our terms and conditions and the right for us to publish your entry in our collection. Short ...]]></description>
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		<title>Alt Fiction Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 14th and 15th of April the Writing East Midlands genre fiction festival Alt.Fiction is coming to Leicester Phoenix.

As part of this event Fruit Bruise Press have teamed up with WEM to offer the first in a series of workshops working with emergent and excluded writers to develop them and create an anthology.

The workshop &#8216;Jumping Boundaries and Breaking Rules&#8217; is exactly the sort of project we want to expand on in future years. We are delighted to also be able to offer, thanks to Leicester Libraries, two weekend tickets ...]]></description>
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