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Epic new TV adaptation of the 1975 novel reignites interest in the exploits of the Kent sailor William AdamsOn a backstreet in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, between a seafood wholesaler and a jewellery shop, stands a simple monument. It marks the f…
Read MoreFounded by two translators – one American, one British – the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation schoolA new project to help bring the “extraordinarily rich” literature of south Asia to Englis…
Read MoreWith Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions? Why isn’t more south Asian fiction published outside the subcontinent?…
Read MoreJudges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambitionThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fictio…
Read MoreThe Indian novelist and her translator scooped the £50,000 prize with Tomb of Sand, a novel about death – but with laughs. The morning after their triumph they talk about fun, feminism and famous ancestors“If you handle a heavy thing with lightness, yo…
Read MoreAuthor Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of SandGeetanjali Shree’s “extremely exuberant and incredibly playful” Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won…
Read MoreUntold Narratives founder Lucy Hannah’s just-published collection showcases the fiction of marginalised writers in AfghanistanWhen Lucy Hannah decided to put together an anthology of short stories by Afghan women in 2019, it already seemed like a hugel…
Read MoreA young Tamil ponders the death of his grandmother’s carer in a hypnotic novel about ageing, longing and the aftermath of warIn Anuk Arudpragasam’s remarkable debut, The Story of a Brief Marriage, set in the north-east of Sri Lanka during the final mon…
Read MoreIt has 110 actors, is based on one of the longest books in English – and it’s the BBC’s first historical drama with no white characters. But some think the series doesn’t go far enough. We take a look behind the scenes‘This is an Indian story,” says Ta…
Read MoreShock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nomineesNew Zealand’s most prestigious literary prize, The Ockhams, has caused controversy after one of the country’s most popular writers was left off it…
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