Imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lutfi has been selected for International Publishers Association’s (IPA) 2019 Prix Voltaire which suppo...

The annual month-long Oxford Book Fair, organized by Oxford University Press (OUP), is running until 7 November at Oxford bookshops in citie...

English PEN promotes free speech round the globe. It runs Writers in Translation, a programme to promote the translation of vibrant new work...

Karien van Ditzhuijzen is the editor of Our Homes, Our Stories , a newly published anthology of work from migrant workers in Singapore. Rae...

In 2016 Aurora Metro Books published Southeast Asian Plays , an anthology of eight plays from the region, all translated into English. Plays...

The Man Booker International Prize celebrates works of fiction from around the world, that have English translations published in the UK. Th...

The Man Booker International Prize celebrates works of translated fiction from around the world. The prize is awarded every year for a singl...

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has just announced its 2018 theme. From 24-28 October, more than 150 writers, artists, thinkers and acti...

Today's International Women's Day is a time to reflect on the needs of women, particularly rural women, in Asia, and to stress...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our regular column Lion City lit explores in-depth what's going on in the City-State, lit-wis...

Some writers work best in their office or home while others benefit from the stimulation and fresh perspective that a foreign sky affords. I...

When publishers reissue older titles, Asian Books Blog asks them why. Here, John Ross explains why Camphor Press reissued The Teahouse of ...

Asian Books Blog runs its own literary award: the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year. We are about to confer the award for the Year...

Oxford University Press Pakistan (OUP) believes book piracy poses a major threat to the local book publishing industry and is hence actively...

The New York-based philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah has just been named chair of the judges for the 2018 Man...

StoryDrive Asia is a conference dedicated to exploring new forms of collaboration, and developing new business models, across media and pu...

Camphor Press is a UK-based publisher specialising in English language books about East Asia, particularly Taiwan.  The company recently a...

The Singapore Book Publishers Association and Frankfurt Book Fair are jointly organising the 2017 StoryDrive Asia conference on 13-14 Novemb...

Asian Books Blog is taking a summer break. We'll be back on Friday, September 8.  In the meantime: happy summer reading!

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore, a multi-racial city. The majority population is of Chinese descent.  There are also large minoriti...