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Reading Mo Yan's latest novel, Wa (Frogs, 2009), is both rewarding and unsettling.
Mo Yan's booklist
As speculations intensify over this year's Nobel Prize in literature, much attention has been focused on Mo Yan, a heavyweight on China's literary scene.
The Journey of Young Prince Houpili to the West, is a well-crafted fictional romance between a Chinese prince and a Venetian baroness that ends without even beginning.
He is an ambassador from Seychelles who has written a novel on a young Chinese prince's path to Venice. Find out where Philippe Le Gall got his inspiration.
The release of The Casual Vacancy is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar this year, with hefty sales expected for J.K. Rowling.
The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling takes a step into the unknown on Thursday with the publication of her debut adult novel.
Major publishers from China and Europe have called for a revamp in the industry business model as books become digitalized.Digital publishing is big business in China.
Two prestigious women writers, A. S. Byatt from Britain and Wang Anyi from China, recently discussed contemporary women's writing in Shanghai.
The publication of a complete translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, in Chinese, is stirring a revival in Spanish literature.
US McGraw-Hill Education and Beijing-based Renmin University Press will cooperate to publish three new books about the Chinese economy, education and culture.
Annika Lindgren, granddaughter of "Swedish fairytale grandmother" Astrid Lindgren, introduced a complete collection of the writer's tales to Beijing Book Fair in September.
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