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The Asian Review of Books has been supporting the Hong Kong Trade Development’s annual Book Fair in this year’s international author programme, with award winning authors from Japan, Korea and the Philippines.
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2022 seems to have a been a good year for translations: fully one-half of this year’s (as always, subjective) list of books we thought worthy of particular mention were in translation in languages from Persian and Turkish to Bahasa Indonesia and Korean. The balance is shared between English fiction, poetry and non-fiction: memoir, history and…
Agnès Bun’s debut memoir, There’s No Poetry in a Typhoon: Vignettes from Journalism’s Front Lines (translated from the French by Melanie Ho), has been named “Book of the Lunar Year” by the Asian Books Blog. This annual award is decided by a reader poll.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Marilyn Chin is one of the most celebrated contemporary Chinese-American poets. Winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, her collections include A Portrait of the Self as Nation (2018), Hard Love Province (2014), Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2002), Dwarf Bamboo (1987) and The Phoenix Gone, The…
How did Asia fare in the “Best Books” sweepstakes of 2019? This is partly keeping score, but there are also undoubtedly many excellent recommendations and hidden gems in these many lists.
A round-up of reviews of works in translation from Chinese, including fiction, story collections, poetry, classics and essays.
A compilation of reviews from the last twelve months for Women in Translation month, including fiction and non-fiction, poetry as well as novels. These include translations from Mandarin, Urdu, Malayalam, Japanese, Bengali, French, Korean, Assamese and Hindi. Click the posts below to read more. They appear in no particular order.
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