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Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer Gary Pak , author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005) Greg Pak
The following is a list of Asian crime fiction writers whose works have been translated into one or more European languages. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have a Wikipedia article. Crime fiction writers may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery, or hard-boiled
Edith Maude Eaton, writing as Sui Sin Far, was one of the first Chinese American authors to publish fiction in English, although her works, first published in the teens, were not re-discovered and re-printed until 1995. [5] In the 1930s, Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), and The Importance of Living (1937), became best-sellers.
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Since the 1970s, Asian American literature has grown from an emerging category to an established tradition [ 1 ] with numerous works becoming bestsellers [ 2 ] and winning mainstream awards, including the Pulitzer Prize [ 3 ] and the ...
Xia Jia (born 1984) science fiction and fantasy writer; Xiao Hong (1911–1942) fiction writer and essayist; Xie Bingying (1906–2000) autobiographer; Xie Daoyun (4th Century) poet and scholar; Xin Fengxia (1927-1998) actress, author, artist; Xinran (born 1958) non-fiction writer; Empress Xu (1362–1407) author of Domestic Lessons, one of the ...
Books and stories by Asian-American (U.S.) authors, with specific emphasis on people descended from the UN-defined sub-regions of East, Southeast, South Asia, and West Asia (which includes Iran). The novels and plays have been sorted into their subcategories; the remaining titles represent nonfiction, along with story and poetry collections.
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction is a 1993 fiction anthology featuring works written by forty-eight largely Asian American authors. It was edited by writer and multimedia performance artist Jessica Hagedorn and featured a preface from Elaine H. Kim, then a professor in Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]