The longlisted titles, laid out at the announcement event in Man's Hong Kong office.
Hyun Joo Park (interpreter) Kyung-sook Shin, Martin Alexander
27 April 2012
26 April 2012
18 April 2012
ALR Editor in Chief Martin Alexander talks poetry with Crystal Kwok in Kwok Talk on RTHK's Radio 3.
16 April 2012
Literature of the Middle East and Asia, on 23 April at the Asia Society's gorgeous new premises in Hong Kong: ALR contributor Madeleine Thien and Canadian-Lebanese writer Rawi Hage discuss their new books, Dogs at the Perimeter and Cockroach, respectively. Xu Xi, programme leader of the MFA in Creative Writing at City University, Hong Kong, moderates a discussion that explores heritage and creativity in the authors' work.
15 April 2012
Ma Jian speaks out about the London Book Fair controversy on Project Syndicate.
He asks how the British Council could invite Liu Binjie, the man who supervised the silencing of Liu Xiaobo and who acts as China's chief censor, to lead the delegation of writers representing China at the London Book Fair.
Ma Jian was interviewed for the ALR by James Kidd in 2008 following the publication of his novel Beijing Coma.
14 April 2012
MORE CHINESE WRITERS IN DETENTION THAN OFFICIALLY ATTENDING THE LONDON BOOK FAIR - EXILES NOT INVITED
The 2012 London Book Fair starts on Monday 16 April amid controversy about the exclusion of some of the guest of honour's most highly regarded writers.
With China as guest of honour and under the microscope, the absence of dissenting writers is very obvious. As Jonathan Heawood of English PEN tells us, 'There are more Chinese writers in detention than are included in the official programme at London Book Fair.'
Today, in another post, English PEN highlights the ALR's translation of Liu Xiaobo's love poetry and celebrates both invited and excluded writers.
The Guardian's Richard Lea sums up both sides on the eve of the event.
Little has changed since the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Dai Qing and Bei Ling's invitations were rescinded, though Dai Qing later attended unofficially.
The same pressure is being exerted this year, but wait and see what effect it has in the Cultural Olympiad's Poetry Parnassus at the end of June. More on this soon.
We reported recently that Bei Ling was featured in the Guardian for his criticism of the exclusion of Chinese writers from the LBF.
10 April 2012
Murong Xuecun, who features in ALR 21 with a macabre story about food, is in theGuardian today with the car accident scene from Red Dust (translated by Harvey Thomlinson of Make Do Studios).
The Guardian's Books Editor, Richard Lea, introduces us here to his series on China writing - Murong's story gets top billing.
25 March 2012
Cambodian cinema: ALR contributor Madeliene Thien reviews Golden Slumbers.
16 March 2012
Shin Kyung-sook wins the
Man Asian Literary Prize
Read the news, watch the video and read the ALR's Kelly Falconer's review of Shin's winning novel, Please Look After Mother.
25 February 2011
J. P. O'Malley reviews Krys Lee's Drifting House for the ALR.
13 January 2012
ALR poet 'Jimmy' (Kyaw Min Yu) is released from jail in Burma.
28 December 2011
On Liu Xiaobo's birthday, highly acclaimed cartoonist Harry Harrison sends the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate a rather grim card.
The longlisted titles, laid out at the announcement event in Man's Hong Kong office.
Hyun Joo Park (interpreter) Kyung-sook Shin, Martin Alexander
27 April 2012
26 April 2012
18 April 2012
ALR Editor in Chief Martin Alexander talks poetry with Crystal Kwok in Kwok Talk on RTHK's Radio 3.
16 April 2012
Literature of the Middle East and Asia, on 23 April at the Asia Society's gorgeous new premises in Hong Kong: ALR contributor Madeleine Thien and Canadian-Lebanese writer Rawi Hage discuss their new books, Dogs at the Perimeter and Cockroach, respectively. Xu Xi, programme leader of the MFA in Creative Writing at City University, Hong Kong, moderates a discussion that explores heritage and creativity in the authors' work.
15 April 2012
Ma Jian speaks out about the London Book Fair controversy on Project Syndicate.
He asks how the British Council could invite Liu Binjie, the man who supervised the silencing of Liu Xiaobo and who acts as China's chief censor, to lead the delegation of writers representing China at the London Book Fair.
Ma Jian was interviewed for the ALR by James Kidd in 2008 following the publication of his novel Beijing Coma.
14 April 2012
MORE CHINESE WRITERS IN DETENTION THAN OFFICIALLY ATTENDING THE LONDON BOOK FAIR - EXILES NOT INVITED
The 2012 London Book Fair starts on Monday 16 April amid controversy about the exclusion of some of the guest of honour's most highly regarded writers.
With China as guest of honour and under the microscope, the absence of dissenting writers is very obvious. As Jonathan Heawood of English PEN tells us, 'There are more Chinese writers in detention than are included in the official programme at London Book Fair.'
Today, in another post, English PEN highlights the ALR's translation of Liu Xiaobo's love poetry and celebrates both invited and excluded writers.
The Guardian's Richard Lea sums up both sides on the eve of the event.
Little has changed since the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Dai Qing and Bei Ling's invitations were rescinded, though Dai Qing later attended unofficially.
The same pressure is being exerted this year, but wait and see what effect it has in the Cultural Olympiad's Poetry Parnassus at the end of June. More on this soon.
We reported recently that Bei Ling was featured in the Guardian for his criticism of the exclusion of Chinese writers from the LBF.
10 April 2012
Murong Xuecun, who features in ALR 21 with a macabre story about food, is in theGuardian today with the car accident scene from Red Dust (translated by Harvey Thomlinson of Make Do Studios).
The Guardian's Books Editor, Richard Lea, introduces us here to his series on China writing - Murong's story gets top billing.
25 March 2012
Cambodian cinema: ALR contributor Madeliene Thien reviews Golden Slumbers.
16 March 2012
Shin Kyung-sook wins the
Man Asian Literary Prize
Read the news, watch the video and read the ALR's Kelly Falconer's review of Shin's winning novel, Please Look After Mother.
25 February 2011
J. P. O'Malley reviews Krys Lee's Drifting House for the ALR.
13 January 2012
ALR poet 'Jimmy' (Kyaw Min Yu) is released from jail in Burma.
28 December 2011
On Liu Xiaobo's birthday, highly acclaimed cartoonist Harry Harrison sends the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate a rather grim card.