Background:  At the 2014 Singapore Writers Festival, I met Singaporean author  Audrey Chin by the coffee cart. This super-friendly petite...

You think being a small indie publisher is challenging? Then trying being a small indie publisher who focuses on translations from ...

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

Ovidia Yu was born in, lives in and writes about Singapore. After a happy childhood spent reading, drawing comics and dramatizing stories,...

Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist of Punjabi extraction.  As a child, she lived all over the world, thanks to her roaming diplom...

Gregory Norminton is an English novelist of French and Belgian extraction, who has spent time in Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo, and Cambodia...

A long-term resident of Seoul, Michael Breen is a British journalist who first went to Korea as a freelance reporter, contributing to a r...

Choo Waihong has just brought out The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains, an account of the Mosuo tribe,...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our regular column, Lion City Lit, explores in-depth what's happening in the City-State lit-w...

Xu Xi  許素細  is the author of ten books, most recently the novels That Man In Our Lives (C&R Press, September 2016) and Habit of a F...

Lisa Beazley is a Singapore-based expat who has just brought out her first novel, Keep Me Posted . The protagonist, Cassie, is close to h...

Graphic novels are wildly popular in Asia, but how about comics journalism?  This mingles the techniques of graphic novels with those of ...

Lit-wise, Hong Kong and Singapore are both busy at the moment.  The Hong Kong International Literary Festival started on Monday, October...

Lit-wise, Hong Kong and Singapore are both busy at the moment.   The Hong Kong International Literary Festival started on Monday, October ...

Chantal Jauvin co-authored, with Dr. Amporn Wathanavongs, The Boy with A Bamboo Heart , an account of Dr. Amporn’s life. Dr. Amporn, ...

Merryn Glover’s debut novel A House Called Askival was released in paperback in May. Set in the hill-station of Mussoorie in north I...

Singapore-based author Alice Clark-Platts, the founder of the Singapore Writers’ Group, has just published her debut novel, Bitter Fruits...

Asia House , in London, is a non-profit, non-political organisation that promotes the exchange of ideas between the diverse communities o...

English PEN is the founding centre of a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries. The organisation cam...

Griffith Review  is Australia’s leading literary quarterly . Each issue is themed. Recent editions have covered topics as varied as renew...