Topic: East Asia
PARIS (Reuters) - The man who nurtured a generation of aspiring writers at a rickety English-language bookstore in Paris, offering supper and a bed to literature fans providing they dusted the shelves or penned their memoirs, has died aged 98.George Whitman, an ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Into a traditional northern New England town under pressure from chain stores and cell phone towers, its old family farms struggling, comes Hattie Kong, half-Chinese and newly widowed.Soon she is joined by the teenaged daughter of a Cambodian immigrant ...
Haruki Murakami, whose new novel "1Q84" is proving a worldwide phenomenon, describes himself as "the black sheep of the Japanese literary world" for his absurdist take on the spiritual emptiness of modern life.In Japan the first two volumes of "1Q84", which can ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Michael Koryta was working on a completely different book when he became haunted by the image of a lighthouse built in the woods, despite the fact that he didn't have a story for it.But the image persisted, eventually leading ...
Dissident writer Liao Yiwu, who fled China after authorities banned him from visiting the United States and Australia, will speak out on a first US trip, a literary group said Wednesday.Liao, who spent four years in jail after writing the poem "Massacre" ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's a simple premise -- losing your illiterate mother on the Seoul subway.But what the characters and readers of "Please Look After Mom" by South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin discover is that in the mother's absence she is ...
Authors led by Salman Rushdie issued a protest Friday after outspoken Chinese writer Liao Yiwu said Beijing refused him permission to travel to New York for a literary festival.Liao, who spent four years in jail after writing the poem "Massacre" about the ...
Shin Kyung-Sook took South Koreans by storm with "Please Look After Mom", her poignant novel of family love which sold 1.7 million copies domestically. Now it is going international.The book sold more than 100,000 copies in the United States just a few ...
Thriller writer John Le Carre asked Wednesday that his name be withdrawn from the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize, disappointing judges who said they admired his work.The best-selling spy novelist was among 13 authors in consideration for the 60,000 pound ...
Thriller writer John Le Carre asked Wednesday that his name be withdrawn from the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize, disappointing judges who said they admired his work.The best-selling spy novelist was among 13 authors in consideration for the 60,000 pound ...
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