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1. Asian Literatures in English:
Texts and Authors
Prepared by:
Prakruti Bhatt,
Research Scholar,
Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
2. Amy tan
● Best known for her novel The Joy
Luck Club (published in 1989)
● Other notable works:
1. The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)
2. The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001)
3. The Valley of Amazement (2013)
4. Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s
Memoir (2017)
5. The Moon Lady (1992) [children’s
fiction]
6. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
(1994) [children’s fiction]
7. Mother Tongue (1990) [Essay]
3. Tan’s writing style
● Her short fiction is grounded in a Chinese
tradition of “talk story” (gong gu tsai), a folk
art form by which characters pass on values
and teach important lessons through
narrative. Other writers, such as Maxine
Hong Kingston, employ a similar narrative
strategy.
● “Mother Tongue” explores Amy Tan’s
relationship with the English language, her
mother, and writing. This nonfiction
narrative essay was originally given as a talk
during the 1989 State of the Language
Symposium; it was later published by The
Threepenny Review in 1990.
4. Maxine hong kingston
● Awarded the National Book Award
for her 1980 novel China Men.
● Her The Woman Warrior: Memoirs
of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)
won the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Non-fiction.
● Other notable works:
1. No Name Woman [Essay] (1976)
2. Through the Black Curtain (1987)
3. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
(2006)
4. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
(2011)
5. Haruki murakami
● First novel: Hear the Wind Sing (1979)
● Notable Works include:
1. Norwegian Wood (1987)
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95)
3. Kafka on the Shore (2002)
4. 1Q84 (2009-10)
5. First Person Singular (2020) [short
story collection]
6. Underground (1997) [non-fiction]
● Was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in
2006 for his novel Kafka on the Shore
● Employs Magic Realism in his works
● Most of his works are a mix of fantasy
and reality, which he uses to explore
themes like loneliness and self-
discovery
6. Kazuo ishiguro
● “known for his lyrical tales of regret
fused with subtle optimism.”
● In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for
Literature for his works that “uncovered
the abyss beneath our illusory sense of
connection with the world.”
● His The Remains of the Day (1989) won
him the Booker Prize in the same year.
● First novel: A Pale View of Hills (1982)
● Other notable works:
1. An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
2. The Unconsoled (1995)
3. When We Were Orphans (2000)
4. The Buried Giant (2015)
5. Klara and the Sun (2021)
6. Nocturnes: Stories of Music and
Nightfall (2009) [short story collection]
7. Mohsin hamid
● First Novel: Moth Smoke (2000)
● The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)-
shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as
for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in
2008
● Other notable works:
1. How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
(2013)
2. Discontent and Its Civilizations:
Dispatches from Lahore, New York &
London(2014) [book of essays]
3. Exit West(2017) - shortlisted for the
Booker Prize
● “his self-consciously ‘modern’ writing style
offers a vision of Pakistani modernity
which breaks with the stereotype (that has
prevailed since 9/11) of the region as
fundamentally traditional, backward
looking, essentially anti-modern.”
8. Taslima nasrin
● Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician,
feminist, secular humanist, and activist.
She is known for her writing on women's
oppression and criticism of religion; some
of her books are banned in Bangladesh.
● gained global attention by the beginning
of 1990s owing to her essays and novels
with feminist views and criticism of what
she characterizes as all "misogynistic"
religions.
● Lajja (Shame) - published in 1993
[banned by the government due to its
controversial subject matter]
● French Lover (2002)
● Her memoir-divided into four parts:
1. Amar Meyebela [My Girlhood] (2002)
2. Utal Hawa [Wild Wind]
3. Ka [Speak Up]
4. Sei Sob Ondhokar [Those Dark Days]
9. Shehan karunatilaka
● Won the 2022 Booker Prize for his
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
(published the same year)
● Won the Commonwealth Book Prize
for his debut novel Chinaman: The
Legend of Pradeep Mathew
● Please Don't Put That in Your Mouth
(2019) [children’s fiction]
● Shri-Lankan Civil War
10. Michael ondaatje
● Won the Booker Prize in 1992 for
The English Patient
● Other notable works:
1. Coming Through Slaughter (1976)
2. Running in the Family (1982)
[memoir]
3. In the Skin of a Lion (1987)
4. The Dainty Monsters (1967) [poetry
collection]
5. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid:
Left-Handed Poems (1970)
6. Secular Love (1984)
7. The Cinnamon Peeler (1989)
8. Handwriting: Poems (1998)
11. Kahlil gibran
● key figure in the Romantic
movement that transformed Arabic
literature in the first half of the
twentieth century.
● The Prophet (1923) translated into
more than 100 languages:
❖ Book of 26 poetic essays
❖ Mystic discussions on topics like
love, marriage, reason and passion,
etc.
● Influenced by the works of William
Blake and Friedrich Nietzsche; as
well as the Bible.
12. Bahaa taher
● Awarded the International Prize for
Arabic Fiction in 2008 for Sunset
Oasis (published in 2007)
● Notable works include:
1. East of the Palms (1985)
2. Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery
(1991)
3. The Point of Light (2001)
13. references
● Hamid, Mohsin. “Mohsin Hamid - Literature.” British Council, 2017, literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/mohsin-hamid. Accessed
21 Aug. 2023.
● Rafik, Farah, and Farah Rafik. “Remembering Bahaa Taher, Egypt’s Prominent Novelist | Egyptian Streets.” Egyptian Streets, 1
Nov. 2022, egyptianstreets.com/2022/10/31/remembering-bahaa-taher-egypts-prominent-novelist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
● The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Haruki Murakami | Biography, Books, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 July
1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Haruki-Murakami. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
---. “Kazuo Ishiguro | Biography, Books, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2023, www.britannica.com/biography/Kazuo-
Ishiguro. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
---. “Khalil Gibran | Biography, Poems, Art, and Books.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Khalil-
Gibran. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
---. “Maxine Hong Kingston | Biography, Books, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Aug. 2023,
www.britannica.com/biography/Maxine-Hong-Kingston. Accessed 22 Aug. 2023.
---. “Michael Ondaatje | Biography, Books, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-
Ondaatje. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
---. “Taslima Nasrin | Bangladeshi Feminist Writer.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2023, www.britannica.com/biography/Taslima-
Nasrin. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
● The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Amy Tikkanen. “Amy Tan.” Britannica, 13 July 2023,
www.britannica.com/biography/Amy-Tan. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
● The International Booker Prize. “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Wins the Booker Prize 2022.” The
Booker Prizes, 17 Oct. 2022, thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-by-shehan-
karunatilaka-wins-the-booker. Accessed 21 Aug. 2023.
![Amy tan
● Best known for her novel The Joy
Luck Club (published in 1989)
● Other notable works:
1. The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)
2. The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001)
3. The Valley of Amazement (2013)
4. Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s
Memoir (2017)
5. The Moon Lady (1992) [children’s
fiction]
6. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
(1994) [children’s fiction]
7. Mother Tongue (1990) [Essay]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)