Bibliobibuli

We're just a few days away from the Writer's Unlimited Tour - our mini lit-fest happening in June. Please click up to size the post...

If you need any more persuasion to go to the Ubud Writers and Readers' Festival this year do have a listen to what Vikram Seth has to sa...

The Singapore Writers' Festival takes place between 24 October to 1 November 2009 at The Arts House, with the theme UNderCovers. The web...

Britain will be celebrating its first major literary festival dedicated to Asian writing in May . The Asia House Festival of Asian Literatu...

I reacted against this professionalising of the author, in India and in Britain ... Indian author Amit Chaudhari confesses to being somethin...

You have to be careful with language. Old war horses like me hear the word 'ban' and creak out with our rusty swords to ... rally ar...

Thanks William Shaw for sending me a link to his post re the kerfuffle over the Dubai Festival . Not all is as it first seemed. According to...

Of course, there's no immediate way that fiction or poetry can be of constructive use in a bloody conflict whose human cost remains conc...

So yes, I'm back. Back home and back to blogging. Crawled in at 1.30 a.m. (thanks to a delay on AirAsia) loaded with dirty washing and a...

I'm getting all excited about going to Bali in a few days time for the Ubud Writers and ReadersFestival and am so happy that Eric has bl...

Fancy a book-lover's dream holiday? This year's Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will take place from the 14-19 October and has ...

(Warning - non-halal post.) What do you do if you feel that the results of a literary award are : ... a stitch-up ... ( the winner announce...

The Observer 's literary editor Robert McCrum hangs up his hat after more than 10 years in the job and gives us a fascinating whistle-st...

Michael Binyon in The Times has news of a very interesting literary festival and it's one that slipped beneath my radar completely las...

A second dose of stories from the Singapore Writer's Festival. Yesterday, I talked about out blogging panel. I realised just how skimpy...

And talking about poetry in performance, a quick plug for an exciting event that's coming up soon. This from the British Council's ...

From Ubud Writers' and Readers' Festival director Janet de Neefe: Greetings, There is a buzz in the air as the residents of Ubud st...

Tiara asked in the comments to a previous post if I would mention the Read or Die Convention 2007 , to be held on Feb 3 and 4 in Manila, th...

Shock news (passed on to me by Deepika ): novelist Nury Vittachi, the co-founder of the Hong Kong Literary Festival is to be sacked by the...

Raman has announced the Kuala Lumpur International Literature Festival which is to take place 28th, 29th and 30th of March 2007. The theme ...