The winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a Columbia University MFA graduate who specializes in motherhood in Sri Lanka.
Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content Draws More Than 3,000 Views
Making quick adjustments when a new level of COVID-19 alert went into effect, Singapore’s Book Council mounted the AFCC digitally.
China South Publishing Chairman Peng Bo: ‘More Sophisticated Demand’
Looking ahead to customer-driven publishing and expanding international outreach, CNS chairman Peng Bo has held his business steady during the challenges of the pandemic.
Gold House’s New Asian and Pacific Islander Reading List
Encouraging intra-community reading in diaspora, the new list is announced amid anti-Asian violence in many parts of the world.
Beijing Book Fair: Digital Internationally, Physical for China’s Publishers
The Beijing Book Fair announces that international participants can attend digitally and China-based publishers are allowed to attend in person.
Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content: Fast COVID Adjustments
Having planned its program in a hybrid format, the Asian Festival of Children’s Content is delaying in-person events amid new coronavirus cases.
Keiichiro Hirano Leads Amazon Publishing’s World Book Day Titles
To celebrate World Book Day, Amazon Publishing is offering ‘At the End of the Matinee’ by Keiichiro Hirano and other translations for free download through April 24.
Singapore’s Anugerah Persuratan Announces Malay Literature Winners
The Singapore Book Council hosts a new biennial round of the Malay literature awards, yielding six honors, one of them posthumous.
Association of University Presses Opens International Pairings Pilot
The Association of University Presses launches its ‘Global Partner Program’ to reach publishers in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The Suddenly Digital Taipei International Book Exhibition: Interview with Robert Lin
Losing its physical fair to a COVID-19 outbreak within days of opening, Taiwan’s biggest book fair extends its online run—by four months.