Continuing with our series highlighting independent publishers we caught up with Ola Laniyan-Amoako and author of See Red, Mina Bint Muhammed
Dipika Rai
The Asian Writer talks to author of Someone Else’s Garden, Dipika Rai.
Aatish Taseer
The Asian Writer talks to author of The Temple Goers, Aatish Taseer
Butterfly
‘So what exactly did you decide?’ It was two years later that Sato-san put the question to me. The two of us had been hiding for two whole bloody years, terrified every single moment while moving about in the marshes along the river, where I caught small, skimpy meals to support us. We couldn’t turn …
The Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road launched this week. The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. The book explores the roads history, showing why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain and how the close links between Britain and places along it continue to this …
Writer’s Rant: The distant hum of white noise
As an extension of Farhana Shaikh’s earlier rant about Asian writers being outsiders looking in, I have to confess that watching New Novelists 12 of the Best from The Culture Show left me a little queasy about the lack of diversity in the their list of ‘up and coming’ authors in British literary fiction. The …
The Sufi’s Garland
A new book of poetry is published this month to mark the 150th birth-anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, India’s first Nobel Laureate. The Sufi’s Garland is a Fakir’s weave of words in poetry. The stony hills of Afghanistan forms the backdrop of this sweet soulful music where the reader becomes a sojourner in a caravan, and …
Irfan Master
The Asian Writer speaks to author of A Beautiful Lie, Irfan Master.
Sunjeev Sahota
1) Could you tell us a bit more about yourself and how you stumbled into writing? I was born and grew up in Derbyshire, in the north of England. After attending the local schools I went to university in London. It was really at university that I started reading novels. At first I think I …
Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist 2010
A fantastic video link between Hong Kong and London, announcing this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist. Keep watching to hear more from Monica Ali on what she thinks makes exceptional fiction.