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Chitra Divakaruni: Defying Cultural Boundaries with Universal Stories
The contemporary novelist says she's attracted to myths and epics "because they are timeless."
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Interview: Novelist Manu Joseph Explores Family Happiness, 'Illicit' and Otherwise
Award-winning novelist says of his tragicomic second novel, "I haven't made up anything."
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Politics and the Chinese Language: What Mo Yan's Defenders Get Wrong
The New York Review of Books' Perry Link re-enters the energetic debate over the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese novelist Mo Yan.
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Interview: Translator Gives Urdu Literary Classic 'Basti' a Passport Into English
Intizar Husain's 1979 novel finally reaches American readers.
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Why Critics of Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Mo Yan Are Just Plain Wrong
The latest Nobel Laureate in Literature didn't write his books to serve a political agenda, argues Charles Laughlin.
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Book Excerpt: 'The Illicit Happiness of Other People' by Manu Joseph
Join the Chackos family's quest for happiness in 1980s Madras, ahead of the author's appearance at Asia Society New York.
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Some Asia Society Friends Make Shortlist for South Asia's Biggest Literary Prize
Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani novelists recently hosted by Asia Society are finalists for this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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Hamid Dabashi: Ecstasy, Subversion and the Persian Language
Hamid Dabashi's new study on Persian literary culture is the book he has "always wanted to write."
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Novelist Sheng Keyi Strives for Her Freedom, and So Do Her Characters
The lives of ordinary women inspire the author behind acclaimed novel "Northern Girls" and other fiction.
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Always a Pioneer, Artist Xu Bing Now Takes the Novel Beyond the Written Word
The Chinese artist's latest work is a literally iconic work of fiction.
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Interview: Hamid Dabashi Navigates 1400 Years of Persian Literary Tradition
Columbia University scholar discusses the theories of "literary humanism" advanced in his new book.
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