Krys Lee is the author of the award winning short story collection Drifting House. She has recently launched a novel titled How I Became a North Korean, inspire...
Cultural Revolution. Censorship. Freedom of speech. The one child policy and an ageing society. The lack of a democratic system. One of the most famous contempo...
Ouyang Jianghe talked with mART about poetry's history in his home country and revealed there is a new movement surfacing in the last two years, bringing back strength to a genre that was getting less attention.
The annual conference of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translations (APWT) organization will probably be held in Macau in 2019, the association's General Manager Sanaz Fatouhi revealed to mART.
Montreal-based author Madeleine Thien speaks to mART about China and her latest novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. She speaks of history and revolutions to be, as well as of the long, self-disciplined yet liberating process of writing a novel.
As Primeiras Coisas (The Former Things), by Bruno Vieira Amaral, has won some of the most prestigious literary awards in Portugal, but it is now about the become the past, as he prepares to launch in April his next romance. Titled Hoje Estarás Comigo no Paraíso (Today you will be with me in Paradise, in a free translation to English), this is a book inspired in a cousin's murder, which took place in Angola, more than 30 years ago.
