Southeast Asia’s publishing industries show promising signs of growth despite being under-translated and overly vulnerable to censorship, says Kenneth Quek.
How Asia Specialists Crime Wave Press Opened to the World
Tom Vater, co-founder of Crime Wave Press, discusses the company’s early success in Asia, the confines of niche publishing, and the challenge of finding books.
Publishers, Book Fair Help Revive Cambodia’s Love of Reading
Under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s reading culture was destroyed, but over the past five years it has returned with the help of a revitalized publishing industry.
On Cambodia, Trauma and Making it Real for YA Readers
Patricia McCormick’s NBA-nominated novel, Never Fall Down, is based on the memories of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Here, she reflects on the project and her process.
A Cambodian Genocide Survivor’s Long Journey into Fiction
Vaddey Ratner’s novel of her childhood under the Khmer Rouge, In the Shadow of the Banyan, is a moving personal journey of reconciliation readers can share.
Cambodia, Where Literature is Being Reborn
Cambodian and Puerto Rican writers are gathered at MEET in Brittany, France to discuss memory and truth in literature.