Festival committee announces 5–7 February 2027 edition, new literary programmes, and a global ecosystem now spanning seven international festivals GAMPAHA, SRI LANKA — March 2026 The Asian Literary Festival Committee has announced […]
International Women’s Day Panel Opens the Final Day of ALF Gampaha 2026 8 March 2026 • 10.00 AM – 10.45 AM • Wet Water Resort, Gampaha When the third and final day […]
The Film Festival of The Asian Literary Festival There is a particular kind of magic that happens when a story leaps from the page to the screen — when a novelist’s carefully […]
There are films that tell stories, and there are films that create worlds. Chatrak — which translates simply as Mushrooms— belongs unmistakably to the second category. Directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara, it is […]
If Day One announced that something extraordinary had arrived in Gampaha, Day Two makes good on every promise. From the first panel of the morning to the final frame of the evening’s […]
6-7- and 8 March at Wetwater Resort, Gampaha There are moments in a city’s life that quietly rewrite its story. The arrival of The Asian Literary Festival in Gampaha on 6 March […]
Theme: Threads of Tomorrow The Asian Group of Literature is delighted to announce that The Asian Prize for Poetry and The Asian Prize for Short Story are now open for submissions for the 2026 cycle. Writers, poets, […]
In the heart of Brussels, just steps from Central Station, a unique social enterprise is redefining what it means to create community spaces. Commons Hub Brussels, a hybrid coworking and events venue, […]
New York is a strategically important place on the Donbas front line, the site of a defensive fortification on Ukraine’s Mannerheim Line. There is constant fighting here, as a result of which its material form is inexorably disappearing from the face of the earth. Russian bombs have annihilated its economic potential.
This poem was written when I was in Freetown, Sierra Leon, in 2011. I was in one of the hilly, cosy hotels in Freetown, where my balcony overlooked the port of Freetown. The country has just gotten rid of the devastating civil conflict which broke out during the Liberian civil conflict.
‘I am not a poet but scribble lines I never publish on paper. This was written in 2001, while travelling by bus from Gampaha, my native town, to Colombo. The bus was passing through Main Street, Pettah, and I could not take my eyes off those cart pullers gathered on both sides of the road. Back then, I was a student. It was the day. I imagined their Night.’
“Dennis Mombauer lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he works as Director: Research & Knowledge Management at SLYCAN Trust, a non-profit think tank focused on climate change. He is also a writer […]
By Susanna Brail It is a recurrent reality that when war hits a nation, the soldiers brush their rusted barrels and walk to the front line, the authors dip their pens in […]
worldwide, and he did not stop there. Dr Jean-Paul Faure translates Asian literature into French, especially, work of Sri Lankan authors with whom he has a particular affiliation. The country where he served over four years as a diplomat.
Sri Lankan authors are known for their compelling penmanship that never draws far from Sri Lankan roots, rich in culture and Sri Lankan traditions. Here’s a list of the ten best books by Sri Lankan authors that will take you down a road of rich cultures and past societies! Most of them write prose, but a few very special ones have crossed the island’s salty ring of water with gifted skills in poetry. Sakina Mohammed is one of them. The Asian Review is pleased to introduce Sakina, who believes in the might of Literature for reconciliation and social cohesion.
While some of the talks will be held at the newly renovated Heritage Currency Building under strict COVID-19 safety protocols, others will be conducted in a live streaming format Here’s an opportunity […]
By Sakshi Selvanathan The wizened yet wise Ivan Nikolayevich is an ordinary seventy-year-old individual with an extraordinary outlook of life, who relates his life story to an enraptured stranger. He usually does […]
A couple of weeks has passed since the Irrawaddy literary festival which attracts writers and publishers around the world to Myanmar, an east Asian nation that has contributed enormously to global literature since […]
Margaret Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a depiction of a nightmarish totalitarian future for the United States, is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award that […]
Shashi Tharoor’s latest book ‘The Battle of Belonging’ was formally launched at the Prabha Khaitan Foundation’s signature event Kitab by Chief Guest Hamid Ansari, former Vice-President of India, Farooque Abdullah, Chairman J&K […]
The Asian Review 