1| Ocean Vuong
At just 33 years old, Ocean Vuong has already achieved what most writers only dream about—but before he was a legendary poet, essayist, and novelist, Ocean Vuong was a child of war.
His family fled the Vietnamese War and found themselves at a refugee camp in the Philippines, where they stayed for a year before immigrating to the United States.
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2| Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro moved from Nagasaki to Britain when he was five years old, so that his father, an oceanographer, could work with the National Institute of Oceanography.
Upon graduating from university, he began to write in his spare time while he worked at a homeless charity—decades later, Ishiguro would publish eight novels, receive a Nobel Prize, .
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3| Jia Tolentino
Born in Canada to Filipino parents, Jia Tolentino is a prolific staff writer at the New Yorker and the brilliant author behind Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion—a collection of essays that became an instant New York Times bestseller upon its release in 2019.Tolentino has an enviably honest and sharp-witted writing voice that she developed .
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4| Sayaka Murata
Best known for her quirky, contemporary fiction novels,Sayaka Murata was named Vogue Japan’sWoman of the Year in 2016 and a Freeman’s “Future of New Writing” author.
Also a winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, Murata is one of the most celebrated women among the new generation of writers in Japan.
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5| Min Jin Lee
Revered for her powerful contributions to telling the stories of immigrants throughout the world, Korean-American author Min Jin Lee is best known for her poignant family saga Pachinko, which has also just been released as a TV series on Apple TV+.
Set in wartime Japan, the story follows multiple generations of a Korean family as they grapple with .
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6| Hanya Yanigahara
Hanya Yanigahara has become one of the hottest names in the global book community for her harrowing contemporary novel, A Little Life.
Her highly anticipated third novel, To Paradise, was released just earlier this year, and just like A Little Life, it has quickly become the subject of heated controversy.
Yanigahara has been widely criticized for t.
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7| Mia Manansala
Yet another critically acclaimed contemporary Filipino author, Mia Manansala has been nominated for several awards for her debut mystery Arsenic and Adobo, including the highly coveted Agatha Award for Best First Mystery and the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for writers of color.
The latter involves an annual grant of $2,000, intended to support the e.
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8| Haruki Murakami
The man needs no introduction—Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has attracted a cult following for his fiction, with millions of copies of his books sold worldwide.
Murakami’s novels often feature lonely narrators who find themselves in strange, dark places.
Isolation and yearning are common themes in his stories, but these universal themes are exp.
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9| R.F. Kuang
The 25-year-old R.F.
Kuang is the Chinese-American author behind the best-selling Poppy Warseries, which, upon its release in 2018, was hailed by many critics as the best fantasy debut of the year.
Written in Kuang’s wry, descriptive prose, The Poppy War trilogy is an action-packed retelling of the second Sino-Japanese war, populated by raging gods.
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Are Asian authors finally gaining ground?
Finally.
After years on the fringes of the international book scene, Asian authors are finally gaining ground.
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What is a canonical text of Asian American literature?
The canonical text of Asian American literature, this book lays out the paradigm for Asian American women claiming their voices and stories in the face of patriarchy and racism. —VTN It opens with an inverse of W.E.B.
Du Bois’ opening in “The Souls of Black Folk.” Where Du Bois writes, “How does it feel to be a problem?” .
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What is a reimaging of Asian literature?
In a world where literature is often classified by national boundaries, an attempt to break borders and depict Asian lives within the continent of Asia and in diasporic communities in North America, Australia, and Britain is a bold reimaging of the field of Asian literature.
Kitaab. 2020. 245 pages.
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What is the best Asian short stories 2020?
Singapore.
Kitaab. 2020. 245 pages.
THE BEST ASIAN Short Stories 2020 is a volume showcasing the vitality and range of contemporary Asian writers.
The volume is remarkable in offering both geographic breadth in representations of Asian lives as well as an impressive array of literary genres, styles, and voices.
