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Photos: Inaugural Lahore Literary Festival Draws Major Names and Capacity Crowds

The crowd inside the Alhamra Art Center in Lahore, Pakistan on February 23, 2013, Day 1 of the inaugural Lahore Literary Festival. (Saad Sarfraz Sheikh)
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A successful two-day event in Pakistan's cultural capital leads to speculation that literary festivals just might be the country's "new soft power."

March 5th by Asia Society | Comments

Interview: Translator Gives Urdu Literary Classic 'Basti' a Passport Into English

L: First American edition of
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As Intizar Husain's 1979 novel gets its first American publication, Asia Society talks with scholar and translator Frances Pritchett about the difficulties involved in rendering it into English.

December 26th by Jeff Tompkins | Comments

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