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Nobel winning Portuguese novelist, Jose Saramago, died yesterday at his home in Lanzarote, aged 87. He had been ill for some time. He move...

The IMPAC Dublin Prize, the world's richest literary award, has been won by Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker with his debut novel The Twin...

More in Starmag today on the move by KarnaDya Solutions Sdn Bhd to bring chick lit into the Malay for a local readership. Dzireena Mahadzi...

I'm laughing because Literary Saloon on the other side of the world picked up a Malaysian publishing story before I did ! Bernama repor...

The shortlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Ra...

A hodge-podge of loosely connected things linked only by their appearance in Malaysian newspapers ... Malaysian P.M. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ah...

Our vision is to provide a balance of new and exciting titles while not forgetting the classics that have shaped our understanding and exper...

You may remember that back in October Horace Engdahl of the Nobel prize committee controversially declared : ... you can't get away fro...

Preeta spotted this competition at Abebooks and reckons some of you will probably want to give it a go. (Please note though it is only open...

... literature has become a way for the men and women in our time to express their identity, to claim their right to speak, and to be heard...

Remember Camilla Gibb who was in KL last year for the literary festival ? Well her novel Sweetness in the Belly which many of you have enjo...

The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. Tha...

The Translators Association of the Society of Authors celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion they have compiled .....

As promised, guest blogged for us by Ezra Zaid of ZI Pulications : ZI Publications is looking at producing good quality books for the Malays...

We're less afraid of tackling translated fiction these days , says Stuart Evers on The Guardian blog, and attributes this in no small p...

Although Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses is set in rural Norway and is a work of fiction in translation, it fits into a genre that...

This year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize , given to a work in translation has been won by Belgian-born author Paul Verhaeghen for h...

Arabic literature faces many challenges including censorship, bureaucracy, and the problems of reaching a wider market. But here are signs ...

The Independent has announced the shortlist for its annual foreign fiction prize. Here are the nominated books with original language and t...

My literary Saturday wouldn't have been complete without at least meeting Max Lane over at Silverfish, even if I missed his talk because...