2010.02.02
Ravan & Eddie at the Turin Book Fair

Kiran Nagarkar, author of Ravan e Eddie, will be in Italy from 13th to 17th May 2010: he will be amongst the writers invited to the Turin International Book Fair, where India is the guest country this year. On this occasion, "the 2010 Fair wishes to privilege writers who have stayed in India, to live and describe a country which with its overflowing humanity continues to be a gigantic reservoir...

2009.12.15
Metropoli d'Asia in Seoul

Andrea Berrini for Metropoli d'Asia was invited to Seoul from 24th to 28th November with Toby Eady, founder of the prestigious literary agency of the same name which is specialized in Asian literature and well known for its local talent scouting skills, discovering new authors and new works from many different countries of the continent. Berrini and Eady held a panel in the presence of the most...

2009.12.15
Metropoli d'Asia-Khatulistiwa Literary Award

The first Metropoli d'Asia-Khatulistiwa Literary Award was given to the Indonesian writer Sihar Ramses Simatupang in Jakarta on 10th November for his novel Bulan Lebam di Tepian Toba. The awards ceremony, in the presence of the Italian Ambassador, Roberto Palmieri, was held during the annual Khatulistiwa Literary Award, the most important Indonesian literary award. An Indonesian jury selected a...

2009.12.12
Metropoli d'Asia at the Singapore Writers Festival

Metropoli d'Asia was at the Singapore Writers Festival on 24th October, where it took part in the meeting "Discovering New Writers, Finding New Readers". On that occasion, a new literary prize called the Catalyst-Metropoli d'Asia (CAM) Fiction Prize was launched. A mixed Italian-Singapore jury will award the prize to a novel by a Singapore author. The prize will be $10,000 plus a contract for the...