Topic: East Asia
YANGON (Reuters) - North Korean diplomats in Myanmar have confiscated hundreds of copies of a locally published biography on the Stalinist state's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, the book's author said Friday. Prominent Burmese writer Hein Latt, 62, said two senior embassy officials ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp said on Tuesday it would enter the electronic reader and book markets, hoping to grab a slice of the hot but increasingly crowded sector popularized by Apple Inc and Amazon.com. Sharp plans to offer an e-book ...
GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life!) - Ian Watson, the doyen of British science fiction writing, has made what he terms "transgressive" interpretations of history in his most recent book of short stories, "The Beloved of my Beloved." Born in 1943, Watson began writing ...
'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' among Amazon.com's best 10 books for 2010, so farHalfway into 2010, it's time for a best-of list for books, including the latest blockbuster from Stieg Larsson. The late Swedish author's "The Girl Who Kicked the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A book about people living in secretive North Korea won the 20,000 pound ($30,000) BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction on Thursday. Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick based "Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea" on extensive ...
Glimpse at lives in secretive North Korea wins UK's lucrative Samuel Johnson nonfiction prizeA book that gives a rare glimpse of everyday life inside one of the world's most secretive states won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize Thursday. Barbara Demick's "Nothing to ...
Memoir allegedly penned by Tiananmen-era leader says soldiers fired in self-defense in 1989A memoir purportedly written by China's hardline premier at the time of the Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown in 1989 defends the military suppression, saying soldiers acted in self-defense when they ...
Publishers and authors are looking for that little bit of magic that could see Asia produce the next J.K. Rowling. The British writer's best-selling series about boy wizard Harry Potter found millions of readers in Asia, but no Asian author of children's ...
Murakami's novel a hit in Japan even before it arrives, despite secrecy of contentsEverything has been kept secret, except the author and title. But the first novel in five years by Japan's Haruki Murakami has become a hit even before its official ...
Zhang Yimou, the man behind the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, is suing the publisher and author of a juicy biography that he said damages his reputation, according to Chinese media. The famed Chinese film director also wants a public apology ...
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