The Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025 saw the Philippines as its Guest of Honor, marking a significant moment for Filipino ...

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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore made history as the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, a collection of his Bengali poems that he himself translated into English. Yet, ...

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It is the best of times, it is the worst of times in Nepal, to borrow the words of Charles Dickens. The youth of that country have risen to overthrow a government that was mired in accusations of ...

Twenty-five years old and three books into her career, Eva Asprakis is fast becoming an author to watch. Her work is not only garnering critical acclaim but also putting Cyprus, a small island often ...

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When I bought a house near Hay-on-Wye, 20 years ago, Richard Booth loomed over the area like a kind of absent, benign monarch. Hay-on-Wye, the second-hand book capital of the world, was renowned for ...