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Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 August 2023

Award-winning writer Saras Manickam dishes about authorial ego, complicated women and race discrimination in Malaysia in My Mother Pattu

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  Courtesy of Author About the Book My Mother Pattu  (Penguin SEA, 2023).   Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this col...
Wednesday, 2 August 2023

Tan Twan Eng discusses The House of Doors

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Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng’s latest novel The House of Doors has just been included on the longlist for the Booker Prize. Devika Misra r...
Sunday, 18 July 2021

On Naming Malaysian Chinese Characters guest post by Elizabeth Wong

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Elizabeth Wong is Malaysian and grew up in Kuala Lumpur. She currently works as a writer, author and geologist in London. Liz is interested ...
Thursday, 3 December 2020

Backlist books: The Golden Chersonese by Isabella Bird

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Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Golden C...
Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Elaine Chiew Chats With Professor Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Malaysian poet and short story writer.

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Photo Credit: Chris Leong Malachi Edwin Vethamani  is a Malaysian-born Indian poet, writer, critic, bibliographer and professor. He is curre...
Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Translating literary works from the Malay world, Nazry Bahrawi in conversation with Nicky Harman

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Dr Nazry Bahrawi, Singapore University of Technology & Design What aroused your interest in translation, and what was the first...
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...
Friday, 29 March 2019

Circumstance out now in the UK

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Rosie Milne's novel Circumstance , which published in Asia last November, is now available in the UK Rosie is the editor of Asian Bo...
Thursday, 25 October 2018

Backlist books: The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace (edited by John van Wyhe)

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Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Annota...
Friday, 13 July 2018

Mediating Islam guest post by Janet Steele

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Janet Steele is associate professor of media and public affairs, and international affairs, at George Washington University, USA. She is the...
Tuesday, 12 June 2018

First Encounter by James Rush

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The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press (OUP) contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocke...
Wednesday, 17 January 2018

500 words from Ivy Ngeow

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Proverse Hong Kong is a publishing house with long-term, and expanding, regional and international connections. This week sees a double bill...
Friday, 27 October 2017

Why I published Pai Naa by Phil Tatham

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Not long before the outbreak of World War Two a young British woman, Nona Baker, sailed to Malaya to join her eldest brother, Vin, the tu...
Friday, 17 March 2017

William L. Gibson on trilogies

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William L. Gibson is the author of Singapore Black , Singapore Yellow and Singapore Red , which together form the Detective Hawksworth T...
Thursday, 7 April 2016

Buku Fixi at London Book Fair

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The London Book Fair (LBF) takes place next week, April 12 -14. For the first time ever, there will be a Malaysian booth showcasing indep...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Indie Spotlight: Professor Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof

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Indie Spotlight  is our monthly column on self-publishing. Here, Raelee Chapman talks to prolific indie author Professor Ghulam-Sarwar ...