The SI Leeds Literary Prize is now open for entries. The biennial award is for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women residing in the UK and has a prize fund over £3,000. In its inaugural year, the £2000 first prize was awarded to Sri Lankan writer, Minoli Salgado, who heard about the prize …
Sanghera on Costa First Novel Award shortlist
Sathnam Sanghera, author of Marriage Material has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The author, featured here by The Asian Writer last month, took to Twitter to thank his supporters. many thanks for kind words about @costabookawards nomination for Marriage Material. More info about the book here: http://t.co/EWJMukQiSZ — Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) …
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Shortlist
Six titles have made the shortlist of the fourth DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014. (November 20, 2013) It is the first year that Indian publishers have dominated the prize, with four of the six titles published by the publishing giant Penguin Random House. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is for US …
The Asian Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers you (and I) really should be reading
“Write a vampire novel with an Asian angle?” That was the advice a first time novelist was given recently, by his new agent. You heard it here first: A vampire novel with an Asian angle. “So what do you think I should do?” he said, in all seriousness. I could sense he was uneasy about …
Amish Tripathi
Best selling author Amish Tripath talks to The Asian Writer
Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera talks about his debut novel, Marriage Material
Nikesh Shukla
The Asian Writer caught up with Nikesh Shukla to talk about his new food novella, The Time Machine
The last word on advances and Vikram Seth
Advances are tricky things for publishers. At Dahlia Publishing I don’t offer an advance simply because it’s a small press and there’s really no money in the bank for me to be able to invest in an author’s career by giving money up front. But conglomerate publishers have always (no matter how small, or diminishing …
Jhumpa Lahiri longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri has been longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. (Tuesday 23 July 2013.) Lahiri’s second novel, The Lowland (scheduled to be published by Bloomsbury in September) follows the story of two brothers. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable, often mistaken for the …
Palo Stickland
Author, Palo Stickland answers five questions about her first novel, Finding Takri