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Bae Suah
Bae Suah
, one of the most highly acclaimed, innovative South Korean authors, is influenced by the German authors she translates including Kafka, W G Sebald and Jenny Erpenbeck.
Rachel Baker
Rachel Baker
is a London-based barrister, specialising in family law. With experience of both Lincoln’s Inn and children’s homes.
Nothing But the Truth
is her debut novel.
Tew Bunnag
Tew Bunnag
was born in Bangkok. He writes about the contradictions between contemporary and traditional life in Thailand.
Photo by Uma Bunnag
Cheon Myeong-kwan
Cheon Myeon-kwan
is one of the most famous and beloved novelists in South Korea. His award-winning novels have been published in various languages around the world.
Ryan Choi
Ryan Choi
is an award-winning composer and musician, writer, and literary translator.
Benjamin Dix
Benjamin Dix
, senior fellow at SOAS and founder of PositiveNegatives ('true stories, drawn from life') is the co-creator of
Vanni: A Family's Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
.
Tim Fitts
Tim Fitts
is an award-winning short-story writer, whose debut novel,
The Soju Club
, was translated into Korean and published by Munhakdongnae.
Han Yujoo
Han Yujoo
is a Bright Young Thing of Korean literature whose debut novel
The Impossible Fairy Tale
was published in 2017 and translated by Janet Hong, winner of the inaugural Society of Authors first translation award.
Ayesha Heble
Ayesha Heble
was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 for her debut novel,
Third Person Singular
, which was published by Tara Books in 2016.
He Jiahong
He Jiahong
, ‘the John Grisham of China’ is a crime-fiction writer and professor of criminal law at Beijing People’s University.
Karoline Kan
Karoline Kan
author of
Under Red Skies
, is a journalist who writes about Chinese politics and history, ethnic policy and the environment, and other social issues for China Dialogue.
Kim Yi-seol
Kim Yi-seol
is an important feminist writer in South Korea. She has received the Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Literature, as well as the Munhakdongne Young Writer’s Award.
James Lee
James Lee
is Asia's most popular children's author, with over 3 million copies of his Mr Midnight and Mr Mystery stories sold to date.
Ming Liu
Ming Liu
contributes to the
FT, China International Business, V
and to the
Asia Literary Review
, et al. Her debut novel,
Our Man in China
, is currently on submission.
Leza Lowitz
Leza Lowitz
is an award-winning, multi-genre writer and Japanese-English translator whose YA novel
Up from the Sea
is published by Penguin Random House.
Rosie Milne
Rosie Milne
founded Asianbooksblog.com and contributes to the
Telegraph
. Her latest novel,
Circumstance
, set in colonial Malaya, was inspired partly by the stories of Somerset Maugham.
Mohammed Massoud Morsi
Mohammed Massoud Morsi
is an Egyptian-Danish-Australian photographer, journalist and author, whose work has been published in all three of his traditional languages.
Carlo Pizzati
Carlo Pizzati
is a journalist and author of two novels, a collection of short stories and three works of non-fiction, including,
Mappillai: An Italian Son-in-Law in India
.
Photo: Mia Murgese Mastroianni
Lindsay Pollock
Lindsay Pollock
, a lifelong illustrator, is the co-creator of
Vanni: A Family's Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
– a graphic novel.
Photo: Dan P. Neegaard
Katrina Shute
Katrina Shute
is a former TV newsreader from Australia who now lives in Hong Kong. Her inspirational children’s book,
Nellie for Ellies
, is currently on submission.
Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha
is an award-winning Indonesian writer who debuted in English in 2018 with Brow Books and is now also published by Harvill Secker/PRH.
Photo: Ugoran Prasad
Krishan Partap Singh
K P Singh
is the author of the Raisina trilogy of novels set in the political village of Lutyen’s Delhi’s. He is currently working on a collection of linked short stories.
Dorothy Tse
Dorothy Tse
is one of Hong Kong’s most celebrated and award-winning writers, whose stories have been published widely in English.
Michael Vatikiotis
Michael Vatikiotis
is the author of
Blood & Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
, drawn partly from his experience as a peace negotiator in the region.
Photo: Arif Hafiz
Wang Zhezhu
Wang Zhezhu
is an award-winning writer whose short stories and novellas have been widely anthologised in Chinese literary journals.
Ling Zhang
Ling Zhang
is an award-winning writer whose novella,
Aftershock
, was adapted into China’s first IMAX movie, with unprecedented box-office success.
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