The Asian Prizes announces the long list for the inaugural Asian Prize for Poetry 2025, featuring ten works from nine countries exploring the theme “The Earth.” The international jury, chaired by Ukrainian poet Iryna Vikyrchak, selected diverse voices spanning Ukraine, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
The Asian Prizes has unveiled the long list for The Asian Prize for Short Story, featuring ten works from writers across India, Indonesia, and Singapore. The competition attracted hundreds of global submissions, evaluated by an international panel spanning Malaysia, India, Ukraine, and Tanzania. The shortlist announcement follows in October with winners declared by year-end.
The Asian Group of Literature and Trogon Global, a UAE-based cultural curation enterprise, embark upon a new journey that promises to stir fresh currents in the global literary landscape. With this pioneering venture, UAE-based cultural curator, novelist and journalist Sabin Iqbal assumes the role of Director Global for both The Asian Prizes and The Asian Festivals.
This is not about teaching her how to walk. This is about cheering her to run in life’s race. Failure isn’t an option, neither for me nor for her, because her accomplishments ultimately become my progress report. Consequently, just like the vast majority of the Singaporean parent population, I interfere unapologetically in my child’s education.
I dream of lakes again. Not lakes, but of a specific lake. Roopkund Lake. Strange to dream in such vivid details about a place one has never visited. This time, my buddh dadda, my Hari, also makes an appearance. I have not thought of my paternal great-grandfather for ages.
The Asian Group of Literature has immense pleasure in announcing that the secound edition of The Asian Prize for Short Story is now open for submissions. The Asian Prize for Short Story is introduced in order to create a global platform of appreciation for outstanding work of short stories written by writers around the world.
Besides the nominations by the affiliated bookclubs of The Asian Group, the Prize is now open for submissions by the publishers. The submissions will be accepted till 15th February 2025.
The Asian Group plans to launch the translations of the books selected for the super shortlist in the year 2025 itself, while the rest of the books made to the shortlist will come to Sihala in early 2026.
fter a seven-month-long evaluation process, the Jury of The Asian Prize for Short Story announced the winner on December 15, 2024. Out of over 900 submissions, three stories made it to the shortlist: Litter by Shikhandin, The Perfect Lifeby Kushboo Shah, and The White Noise Lullaby by Natasha Sharma. Among them, Indian writer Natasha Sharma won The Asian Prize for Short Story 2024 for her work, The White Noise Lullaby.
The highlight of November was the eagerly awaited announcement of the Super Shortlist for The Asian Prize of Fiction, delivered by The Asian Committee on November 13, 2024. Out of six outstanding works of seamlessly woven prose that delve into unexplored themes and relevant social issues, three authors made it to the final list: Indian author Arefa Tehsin, Nepali-Indian author Smriti Ravindra, and American fiction writer V.V. Ganeshananthan.
On the 07th of September from 4.00pm to 5.00pm (GMT+530), The Asian masterclass will introduce you a new author among its shortlist for The Asian Prize for Fiction.
From the longlist, these six books have emerged as distinguished works, securing their place on The Shortlist for The Asian Prize for Fiction 2023. They are now awaiting the highly anticipated super shortlist- The Trio, which will be revealed in November 2024.
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Global literature is nowadays a crazy Darwinian pool, with new talents emerging with wings, old talents sharpening their talons and genes of genres mixing and blurring the lines! The Asian Prize for […]
Forget the glitzy award ceremonies and hefty checks; forget the question, “So what’s the point of another literary price?”. You will know that things are about to get very real in literary-spear when the Asian Prize for Fiction announce its short listees for the Asian Prize 2023 edition, carving a unique path in the global literary landscape.
The story takes place in 1961, when Goa was ruled by Portuguese. Shirly Quarachim’s happy childhood abruptly ends when her father is taken into custody on treasonous allegations. She has to battle fearsome dhowmen, resistance fighters, and a ruthless policeman who enjoys torturing people
The Asian Group of Literature has immense pleasure in announcing that the first edition of The Asian Prize for Short Story is now open for submissions. The submissions will be closed on 08th March, and the long list will be announced on 30th June, followed by the shortlist on 15th September. The winner will be announced on 15th December.
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