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Fifty Shades of Grey, a work of erotic fiction has become the fastest selling book of all time. With Fifty Shades of Grey sweeping the nation, we cross borders over to India, where not one, but two anthologies of Erotic fiction are due to be published this year. We’re caught up with Sheba Karim …
Q. Tell us a little bit more about your second novel, Another Country? The novel opens when Leela, aged twenty-one, is in Paris at the end of the last millennium. It’s her first job after university, and begins a journey that the book follows, through her twenties in Paris, London, and then Bombay. Q. …
by Khuram Shahzad It would be most unfair to say that only one book has made me the awful writer that I am. It’s always the amalgamation of pretty colours that makes that one horrid colour. If I had to name one book which has had the most influence on me, this accolade should go …
The Asian Writer catches up with Nikita Lalwani, whose second novel The Village is published this month.
Shehan Karunatilaka, author of Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew has won the Commonwealth Book Prize. The winners were announced at the Hay Festival earlier this month. The £10,000 prize is awarded annually and celebrates the best of literature written across the commonwealth. Margaret Busby, Chair of the Commonwealth Book Prize said of the winning title: “This …
Rahul Bhattacharya is named the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize with his first novel The Sly Company of People Who Care. (May 29, 2012). Nick Laird, Michèle Roberts and Kamila Shamsie admired ‘Bhattacharya’s verve and style as he brilliantly evokes the history and inhabitants and landscape ofGuyana’. Nick Laird said he had ‘seldom …
The Asian Writer caught up with Romesh Gunesekera ahead of his appearance at the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
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 …
The Asian Writer caught up with Roshi Fernando to find out more about the life of a short story writer…
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 …