Raising the profile of South Asian writers since 2007
The Asian Writer’s first collection Happy Birthday to Me : A collection of contemporary Asian writing is due for release on October 30th 2010. The collection features new writing by emerging writers on the theme of celebration, a selection of interviews from the last three years of The Asian Writer as well as an advice …
Rana Dasgupta becomes Best Book Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize (April 12, 2010) The judges chose Solo for its innovation, ambition, courage and effortlessly elegant prose. A remarkable novel of two halves, this is a book that takes risks and examines the places where grim reality and fantastical daydreams merge, diverge, and feed off …
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature to celebrate the rich and varied literature connected to the subcontinent has been announced. The prize will award US$50,000 to the winner starting from 2011. The award will recognize writers of any ethnicity writing about South Asia and its Diasporas. The books competing for the prize must be …
With an anticipated forty events over ten days, the DSC South Asian Literature Festival is to be Britain’s major event celebrating the rich and varied cultures of the South Asian region, through the world of literature. The Festival stream of events will be held at cutting-edge London arts venues including Kings Place (King’s Cross), Rich …
The Writing Industries Conference 2010 took place March 6th, 2010. The tone of the day was set by Graham Joyce’s fabulous key note speech. Which you can listen to in its entirety by clicking here. It was hard for anything to follow that. Everything that needed to be said was, and I had the pleasure …
BRIXTON BEACH by Sri Lankan author Roma Tearne has been picked for the new TV Book Club which started on More 4 Sunday, 17th January. ROMA TEARNE is the only South Asian author chosen by Amanda Ross for the new show taking over from Richard & Judy’s book club. The programme is produced by Amanda …
London, 19.30pm 4th January 2010 Former scooter salesman Raphael Selbourne scoops the Costa First Novel Award for Beauty. Beauty – in name and appearance – is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Placed on the jobseekers’ treadmill and under continuing domestic pressure, in desperation she …
By Farhana Shaikh You’re having another bad day at the office and quite frankly you’re boss is determined to make things difficult for you…you reach for that bottom drawer, and pull out that manuscript you’ve half written, blushing as you read over the details of that last love affair you had with that boy last …
What a night! I spent the last few hours in the company of some of the richest, diverse and talented writers. The first thing that struck me, I was listed for a VIP table. I don’t know if it was a mistake but I wasn’t about to complain. I guess wearing a sparkly gown, headscarf …
Sala Choudhury and Gurpal Stickland have triumphed in The Asian Writing New Writing Competition. Sala Choudhury’s entry The Critic was chosen as the overall winner in the competition. Playing on the Mountain by Gurpal Stickland was chosen as the winner in the Poetry Category. Both writers win a £50 Waterstones Vouchers. The competition attracted a …