A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

This course provides an introduction to modern Japanese literature through the reading of a selection of representative texts in translation. Each week we will look at one significant work of Japanese ...

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

The year of literature in translation. Starting from comfort reads to kicking-my-feet-giggling romance to stimulating memoirs, there is a little bit for everyone from every ...

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

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

She started writing a work of pure literature, something that she had long admired, but gave up. She then turned to light novels, a popular Japanese genre of young adult entertainment books ...

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.

Manga adaptations are a great way to be introduced to other forms of media you may have never considered paying attention to before or had no access to. More and more culturally significant stories by ...

In 2017, WebNovel, a Chinese platform run by Yuewen Group, was launched, marking a milestone in the overseas expansion of ...

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

English PEN has announced the PEN Translates awards winners for 2025, including the first-ever PEN Translates award for a ...