Aitana Bellido

Aug 28, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Alaaeldin Mahmoud |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Susan Blumberg-Kason

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. I first came across Cara Lopez Lee on a listserv group (remember those!) for authors who write about Asia. Cara’s memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away, was about to come out—this was ten years ago—and I was intrigued by her story because I, too, had written a memoir, about a rocky relationship in Hong Kong and China and my own running away.

Aug 20, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Ipek Sahinler |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Renee H. Shea

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Described by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contemporary US poet, writer, and literary translator. Her impressive career spans more than five decades, during which she’s published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation.

Aug 6, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Chard deNiord |Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Renee H. Shea

Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many translations is Dawn, by Sevgi Soysal, which transpires over one night spent in prison. A novel from the 1970s, Archipelago published the first English version, in Freely’s translation, in 2022.

Jul 23, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Sangamithra Iyer |Aitana Bellido |Michelle Johnson |Renee H. Shea

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Zhang Ling is the author of ten novels, including A Single Swallow (trans. Shelly Bryant) and Where Waters Meet, the first two novels in her Children of War trilogy. Focusing on war, trauma, and human courage, her work fights against collective oblivion and fosters empathy and understanding. Yan Lu: The trilogy Children of War is your first focused attempt at the subject of war.

Jul 17, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Renee H. Shea |Aitana Bellido

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. On March 26, 2024, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop co-sponsored an event at Yu and Me Books to celebrate the New York City launch of Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel. Parul was born in Assam, India, and raised in the United States. Her fiction appears in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Prime Number, and more.