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George Town Literary Festival
The George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) is an annual literary festival which takes place in the city of George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It is currently the largest world literature festival organised in Malaysia and the first literary event in Southeast Asia to receive the Literary Festival Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. GTLF celebrates world literature, translations, and the literary arts, with various writers, artists and thinkers from diverse locations and disciplines coming together annually to engage in intellectual discourse. It is the only literary festival funded by the state government in Malaysia. The festival generally takes place every last weekend of November. Admission to the festival is free to all members of the public. History GTLF was initiated in 2011 by former Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng. Debuting with a line-up of 5 writers, the festival's last edition featured over 80 writers and speakers while its upcoming editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Town, Penang
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Tash Aw
Tash Aw, whose full name is Aw Ta-Shi (; born 4 October 1971) is a Malaysian writer living in London. Biography Born in 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan, to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw returned to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the age of two, and grew up there. Like many Malaysians, he had a multilingual upbringing, speaking Chinese and Cantonese at home, and Malay and English at school. He eventually relocated to England to study law at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at the University of Warwick before moving to London to write. He completed the MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in 2003. His first novel, ''The Harmony Silk Factory'', was published in 2005. It was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award as well as the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel (Asia Pacific region). It also made it to the long-list of the world's prestigious 2007 International Impac Dublin Award and the Guardian Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Martynova
Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German. Olga Martynova grew up in Leningrad where she studied Russian literature and language and was active in various literary circles. After an exchange in Berlin in 1990, she moved in 1991 with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev (1959–2018), and their son Daniel to Frankfurt, where they currently live. Her numerous contributions in German-language periodicals have been translated into English, Polish, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Danish and, more recently, Russian. Her Russian poems have been translated, sometimes even self-translated, into German, English, Italian, Albanian and French. She also works as an essayist and reviewer for newspapers such as the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', ''Die Zeit'' and ''the Frankfurter Rundschau''. Martynova was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as ''Final Solutions'', ''Dance Like a Man'', ''Bravely Fought the Queen'', ''On a Muggy Night in Mumbai'', ''Tara'', ''Thirty Days in September'' and ''The Big Fat City''. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like Arvind Gaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey. Early life and background Mahesh Dattani was born in Bangalore to Gujarati parents. He went to Baldwin Boys High School and then went on to join St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. Dattani is a graduate in History, Economics and Political Science. He completed his post-graduate in Marketing and Advertising Management because he wanted to become a copywriter. He worked with the Bangalore Little Theatre, where his first role was in Utpal Dutt's ''Surya Shikhar''. After reading Edward Albee's play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal is an American poet, writer and educator, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker of Mediterranean roots, she has published seven prize-winning collections, including ''Life in a Country Album.'' She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.” Biography Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and writer born in the Caribbean to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in France, Italy, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Arab world. After earning a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, Vermont and a MPhil in English and Drama at the University of London, Handal began writing and translating global literature in the 1990s. She currently resides in New York City, Rome and Paris and teaches at New York University. Literary career Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaan Van Dis
Adriaan van Dis (Bergen aan Zee, 16 December 1946) is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella ''Nathan Sid''. In 1995 his book ''Indische Duinen'' (''My Father's War''), which in its narrative is a follow up to his debut novella, was also awarded several prestigious literary awards. He is also known as the host of his own award-winning television talkshow named ''Hier is... Adriaan van Dis'', that lasted from 1983 to 1992 and several successful award-winning television documentaries. With the publication of his Indies inspired compilation book ''De Indie boeken'' (''The Indies books'') in 2012, van Dis establishes himself as one of the most significant second generation authors of Dutch Indies literature. Life Youth His father was born in the Dutch East Indies to Dutch parents and his mother a farmer's daughter from Breda who had met each other in the Dutch East Indies after the War. By then his mother already had three daughters from her first marriage to a Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zainah Anwar
Zainah Anwar is a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader, activist and Muslim feminist. She was the head of the civil society organisation Sisters in Islam for more than two decades before stepping down. In 2013 she was named by the International Museum of Women as one of its 10 most influential Muslim women. Background Zainah Anwar was born in Johor, to her father, Tan Sri Haji Anwar bin Abdul Malik and mother, Saodah bte Abdullah, a housewife. Her father was credited as the man who gave the United Malays National Organisation or UMNO its name – initially United Malays Organisation. This was at a meeting in Batu Pahat when seven Umno founders from Johor Bahru met Datuk Onn Jaafar to call for a unification of all the disparate Malay nationalist groups at the time. He later became Onn's private secretary when Onn became Johor's Menteri Besar. Family In 1997, her father died two weeks before his 100th birthday followed by her mother a year later. Her elder s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Mahathir
Datin Paduka Marina binti Tun Dr. Mahathir (born 9 June 1957) ( Jawi: مرينة بنت محاضر) is a Malaysian socio-political activist and writer. She is the eldest child of the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Mahathir Mohamad and Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali. She graduated from the University of Sussex. Career Marina is a leader in many non-governmental organizations such as the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and is an active socio-political blogger. She also writes in her bi-weekly column called ''Musings'' in The Star newspaper since 1989. Some of her pieces in the column have been published in her books such as ''50 Days: Rantings by MM'', published in 1997 and ''Telling It Straight'', published in 2012 by Editions Didier Millet. The latter is a selection of her articles published in her column between 2003 and 2012. It includes a foreword by Dr Farish A. Noor, a local political scientist and historian. It contains 90 articles which are written thematically including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanne Ørstavik
Hanne Ørstavik (born 28 November 1969) is a Norwegian writer. She was born in Tana in Finnmark province in the far north of Norway, and moved to Oslo at the age of 16. With the publication of the novel ''Hakk'' (''Cut'') in 1994, Ørstavik embarked her writing career. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of ''Kjærlighet'' (''Love''), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a poll published by ''Dagbladet''. Since then she has written several novels and received a number of literary prizes. In 2002, she was awarded the Dobloug Prize for her literary works, and in 2004, the Brage Prize for the novel ''Presten''. Ørstavik’s books have been translated into 15 languages. Translations in English In 2014 Peirene Press published the first ever English translation of one of her novels - The Blue Room - as part of their Coming of Age series. In 2018 Archipelago Books published ''Kjærlighet'' (1997) as ''Love'', tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Jofré
Pablo Jofré (born 1974) is a Chilean poet currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Jofré was awarded the Lagar Prize by the Chilean National Contest of Literature Gabriela Mistral (''La Serena'') for the poetry collection ''Abecedario'' in 2009. He also won first prize at the Sant Andreu de la Barca Competition (in Spain) for his poem "La Danza de la Existencia (Extranjería)" in 2010. Biography After the school in Santiago de Chile in 1992, Jofré travelled to Europe for the first time. He spent a year visiting Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal and studied German and English. Back in Chile, he studied journalism at the Diego Portales University and cultural anthropology at the University of Chile. Before obtaining his degree, he went to Barcelona in 2002 to study literary theory and comparative literature at the University of Barcelona. He also studied Catalan and French and attended literary workshops led by Leonardo Valencia and Joan-Ignasi Elias. In 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hemley
Robin Hemley, born in New York City, is an American nonfiction and fiction writer. He is the author of fifteen books, and has had work published in ''The New York Times'', ''New York Magazine'', ''Creative Nonfiction'', ''Brevity'', '' Conjunctions'', '' The Sun'', and ''Narrative'', among others. In 2020, he joined the faculty of Long Island University, where his is Director and Polk Professor in Residence of the George Polk School of Communications. Life and career Robin Hemley was born to a Jewish family. His father, Cecil Hemley, was co-founder, with Arthur A. Cohen, of Noonday Press. His mother, Elaine Gottlieb Hemley, published fiction and poetry. Hemley graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.A. in comparative literature and from the University of Iowa with an MFA in Fiction. He earned a PhD in creative practice from the University of New South Wales in 2020. His writing awards include three Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, first place in the Nels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Fallenberg
Evan Fallenberg (born August 8, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American-born writer and translator residing in Israel. His debut novel ''Light Fell'', published in 2008, won the Stonewall Book Award and the Edmund White Award, and was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards. His second novel, ''When We Danced on Water'', was published in 2011 by HarperPerennial, and his third, ''The Parting Gift'', by Other Press in 2018. He has also published English translations of several Israeli writers, including Meir Shalev, Hanoch Levin, Ron Leshem and Batya Gur. Life Originally from Cleveland, Ohio,"Author awarded residency". ''Cleveland Jewish News'', September 18, 2015. he was educated at Georgetown University. He also studied in Switzerland, worked in Japan and settled in Israel in 1985. He holds a BSFS in diplomacy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
