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Showing posts with label Asian writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian writers. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 February 2022

Small London Indie Press Leopard Print Releases First Anthology of Asian Stories

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This week's Contemporary Voices column is written by Ivy Ngeow as guest writer for Asian Books Blog.  Ivy is a true Renaissance woman ...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part II

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part I

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...
Monday, 15 November 2021

Indie Spotlight: Building a community by writing - How my memoir about divorce connected people from around the world during the pandemic

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Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...
Sunday, 7 February 2021

The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda - A Modern Japanese Crime Novel

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The Silent Dead is a Japanese crime novel by Tetsuya Honda and the first installment of the Reiko Himekawa series. It offers a glimpse into...
Thursday, 24 September 2020

Danton Remoto Chats With Elaine Chiew About His Novel Riverrun: Proudly Gay, Proudly Filipino

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  Credit: PRH SEA Bio: Danton Remoto was educated at Ateneo de Manila University, Rutgers University, University of Stirling and the Univers...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Shreya Sen-Handley Talks the Strange and Unexpected in her Short Stories with Elaine Chiew

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Credit Stephen Handley Bio:  Former television journalist and producer Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of two books with HarperCollins...
Monday, 11 May 2020

Talented Writer & Translator Tiffany Tsao Chats With Elaine Chiew About The Majesties

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Book cover design by James Iacobelli and artwork by Joseph Lee Bio:  Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the aut...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Sandeep Ray talks about his cinematic and deeply resonant historical novel, A Flutter in the Colony

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Courtesy of Author Bio: Sandeep Ray was born off the Straits of Malacca and spent his childhood next to a remote rubber plantation....
Friday, 17 April 2020

Stephanie Chan aka Stephanie Dogfoot talks about her stirring collection Roadkill for Beginners, slam poetry, and her different performing hats.

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Courtesy of Author Bio : Stephanie Chan’s poetry has been described as “conjuring a kind of matter-of-fact magic, full of warm, eve...
Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Talented Ivy Ngeow dishes on her recent book Overboard: research, characters and the time it took to write her book

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Courtesy of Author Bio Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. She is the author of three novels, Cry of the Flying R...
Wednesday, 18 March 2020

The Day The Music Died: Elaine Chiew Sits Down With Fairoz Ahmad

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Fairoz Ahmad, courtesy of Ethos Books Bio: Fairoz Ahmad is the co-founder of the award-winning social enterprise, Chapter W. For ...
Monday, 25 November 2019

Tunku Halim Talks Horror with Elaine Chiew

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Tunku Halim, dubbed as the Malaysian Stephen King, surely needs no introduction. Scream to the Shadows is a retrospective of 20 years...
Monday, 28 October 2019

Sun Jung, author of Bukit Brown, chats with Elaine Chiew

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Sun Jung received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and was a research fellow at both Victoria University and the National Univer...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Nicky Harman interviews Jeremy Tiang, Singaporean writer, translator and playwright

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Photo credit: Edward Hill Nicky: When you were growing up, what were the first Chinese-language stories you came across, and what drew y...
Monday, 3 June 2019

Eminent Historian Professor Wang Gungwu converses with Elaine Chiew on his autobiography, Home Is Not Here

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Photo courtesy of NUS Press From the book jacket: Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Exciting writing from Korean: in this post, Nicky Harman talks to noted translator from Korean, Sora Kim-Russell (김소라)

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Sora, how did you get started in literary translation? I started out translating short stories, but my big break was with Shin Kyung...
Friday, 17 May 2019

Kawika Guillermo makes a bookstop at Asian Books Blog to chat about Stamped, his anti-travel novel, online personas and why he thinks Americans can't be flaneurs.

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Biography Kawika Guillermo  is the author of  Stamped: an anti-travel novel  (Westphalia Press, 2018). His stories can be found...