” And this reminds me of a quote attributed to Toni Morrison which goes something like “If there is a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it”.
” In an era when gadgets and media are conspiring to shorten the attention spans of readers, turning human beings into cyborgs, or even worse- living, breathing AI models, I see the act of sitting in your favorite spot with your favorite beverage and sinking into your book as an act of silent rebellion. “
It is a romanced attempt by a twenty-first-century Western European to read into the mind of a 16th-century Indian monarch
” I would say when you write regularly and read widely, you slowly develop your voice.” Says Vikas Prakash Joshi.
The Galle Literary Festival just concluded with a bang! And the literary excitement that ignited late last year won’t slow down as the Ceylon Literary Festival is around the corner! And Asian […]
I wove a lot of my stories from memory. Years ago, I ditched the practice of carrying a notebook to record insights in life’s other settings. I intended to turn my subconscious and unconscious mind into a trustworthy and bottomless repository of my original thoughts and insights. I practised my intuitive perception. It took me five and a half years to write the novel.
My affinity and love for ‘seeing’, whether it be art, built and natural environments has, in many ways, directed my vocational journey and also connected me to the various cultures and communities I have entered.
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Smriti Ravindra is a Nepali-Indian writer. Her fiction and journalism have been published globally, including in the US, India, and Nepal. She currently resides in Mumbai, India. The Woman Who Climbed Trees is her first novel and is the latest addition to internationally published Nepali diasporic literature through which she goes on a psychological journey in search of “the place”.
Paula O.M. Otukile the founder of the Mulher Forte African Literature Awards. Born in Mahalapye, Botswana, Paula is the chief executive editor of Listen to Africa magazine, editor of Diaspora Times Global, and a literature columnist for Mt. Kenya Times. Her accolades include: Nominated for Zikomo Africa Awards Zambia (Best Book of The Year, and Best Author of The Year), 2021 Global AfriCAN Author honoree award, 2021 Advocate of The Year – Gender Activist, Monrovia, Liberia, and Best Gender Activist, Lagos, Nigeria
Sri Lanka’s literary landscape has a very particular space for transalted work. Hundreads of translations are launched in this island nation by its relatively small publishing community which as a number is very insignificant compared with India and Bangladesh. However, as a percentation against the original work published in two main langauges spoken in the island nation, and the little the English writers in Sri Lanka do, translations into Sinhala records the majority.
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.
When the world around you is falling apart, the present is dreadful, and the future is an impossibility, and you can’t figure out why all happen to you, then you seek refuge in the stories of the good old past.
By Swapna Peri Aakanksha Jain is author of a non-fiction book, content creator, and a book blogger. She has been a freelancer since 2017. Her blog ‘Books charming’ is one of the […]
By Swapna Peri Ashok Ferry is an author, a mathematician and a personal trainer. He writes short stories and novels. He studied mathematics at Oxford and worked in London on construction sites […]
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