In the first event of its kind, a new festival celebrating translators and translated literature will be taking place in May. Translated By, Bristol was founded by author and Japanese translator Polly ...

Every year on February 22, Japan celebrates National Cat Day, known as “Neko no Hi”. This special day is dedicated to ...

Michael Dirda is synonymous with the literary life. He’s been called “the best-read person in America,” and it’s easy to ...

The Japanese literary world is abuzz with the release of the latest work by Uketsu, the country’s best-selling writer. Known ...

For someone who grew up with Bengali and English, learning Japanese is a fresh and bracing experience, writes Baizid Khoorshid Riaz ...

For more than a century, detective fiction has captivated readers from worldwide with its intricate puzzles, thrilling chases ...

Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, its English translation published last November, plunges the reader into a kind of metaphysical vertigo that never reaches a concluding synthesis.

Bronovel has emerged as a distinctive online platform that caters to readers of translated novels from East Asia. If you’re ...

With Chinese online literature becoming a "global cultural phenomenon", such creators and providers are also rapidly ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...

The Japan Cultural Days event at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) has experienced an exceptional turnout, ...

A new anthology, ‘New Greek Voices: Best Short Fiction from Greece’ (Tiber & Hudson, 2024), is bringing contemporary Greek ...