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The Bureau began to publish a magazine, Lotus, a forum for short stories, poetry, book reviews, and literary essays. [4] The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time. [5] After the assassination of its secretary general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally back to ...
[2] [3] The magazine was established by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (AAWA). [4] [5] Its foundation was first proposed at the Association's inaugural meeting held in Tashkent, Soviet Union, in 1958. [6] The goal of the magazine was to support the Afro-Asian solidarity and nonalignment which had been stated in the Bandung Conference in ...
The Scholastic Asian Book Award (SABA) is the joint initiative of Scholastic Asia and the Singapore Book Council (SBC). The award recognizes children's writers of Asian origin who are taking the experiences of life, spirit, and thinking in different parts of Asia to the world at large.
This is a list of the winners of the Asian Academy Creative Award for Best Drama Series since its institution in 2018. Apart from the main award, the category is also awarded regionally in seventeen participating nations. [1] South Korea holds the most awards with four wins, followed by India and Japan with one.
The association was founded in 1941 as publisher of the Far Eastern Quarterly (now the Journal of Asian Studies). The organization has gone through a series of reorganizations since those early days; but its continuing function serves to further an exchange of information among scholars to increase understanding about East, South, and Southeast ...
In the last two decades, the Asian American population has more than doubled in the U.S., according to census data, with Indian Americans now accounting for the country’s largest Asian group.
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell—descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War—to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia". [1]
A new group, South Asian Women for Harris, raised over $250,000 for the campaign during a two-hour call last week, according to The Associated Press. Around 4,000 women attended, including ...