Frequency Quarterly Country Hong Kong, China Website asialiteraryreview.com | Year founded 2000 Language English | |
The Asia Literary Review is a quarterly literary journal published in English and in translation online and in print, and distributed internationally. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography. The journal had its beginnings in Hong Kong in 2000 as a small local literary journal called Dim Sum, founded by Nuri Vittachi. Later Nuri became involved with British businessman and philanthropist Ilyas Khan who provided encouragement and financial support for the first decade. Khan was a Hong Kong supporter of arts and together they created an international showcase for writers from the Asian region.
Contents
The journal is an eager advocate of Asian writers, providing a platform for their work to be read in English and thus exposed to an international readership.
Contributors/Interview subjects
The magazine has published interviews with figures such as Aung San Suu Kyi, David Mitchell, Salman Rushdie and Kyung-sook Shin (2011 winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize).
Contributors have included Margaret Atwood, Justin Hill, Liu Xiaobo, Su Tong, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Laurie Thompson, Seamus Heaney, Kim Young-ha, Ko Un, Zheng Danyi, Bei Dao, Shehan Karunatilaka and Xu Xi.
Poetry Parnassus
At Poetry Parnassus, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, an Asia Literary Review Celebration Reading was held at the Southbank Centre. Participants included Marjorie Evasco, Jang Jin-sung, Kim Hyesoon, Alvin Pang, Laksmi Pamuntjak and Jennifer Wong.
The event was covered by the Philippine Star and other media including CBN News
Staff
Managing Editor: Phillip Kim (Listed on website as business and finance director)
Editor in Chief: Martin Alexander 2010- (Poetry editor 2000 - 2015)
Consulting Editors: Peter Koenig, Robert Hemley
Senior Editors: Justin Hill, Kavita Jindal, Miichael Vatikiotis, Zheng Danyi
Former staff
Editor: Chris Wood (2008? -?)
Literary Editor: Kelly Falconer (Nov 2011 - Dec 2012)