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The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate.He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas.
East Asian literature is the diverse writings from the East Asian nations, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Literature from this area emerges as a distinct and unique field of prose and poetry that embodies the cultural, social and political factors of each nation.
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]
Children's literature in Singapore has gained momentum in recent years due to increased interest in the genre generated by the First Time Writers and Illustrators Initiative which discovered acclaimed writers such as Adeline Foo (The Diary of Amos Lee), Jin Pyn (The Elephant and the Tree), Don Bosco (Thor the Greatest), Hidayah Amin (The Mango Tree), Edmund Lim (Where's Grandma) and Emily Lim ...
Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature. Indonesian literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago . It is also used to refer more broadly to literature produced in areas with common language roots based on the Malay language (of which Indonesian is one scion ).
[1] [2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written in various local languages as well as in Spanish and English. According to journalist Nena Jimenez, the most common and consistent element of Philippine literature is its short and quick yet highly interpersonal sentences, with themes of family, dogmatic love, and persistence. [3]
Blackened Shrimp Bowls. Grain bowls are so versatile, and this blackened shrimp-based bowl is no exception.Filled with brown rice, seasoned blackened shrimp, a corn and red pepper salsa, and ...
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 ...