Tag: books
Filipino, Singaporean authors receive top prize at ‘Illumination Christian Book Awards’
The win makes it the world’s first-ever for any writer to receive the Illumination Christian Book Gold Award twice in consecutive years
Activists condemn Malaysia ban on LGBTQ books
Malaysia has experienced growing religious fundamentalism in recent years
Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack
"Victory City” is an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city
Bangladesh defends textbook ‘promoting’ trans rights
The conservative Muslim-majority country's roughly 1.5 million transgender people have long faced discrimination and violence
Bangladesh bans top publisher from book fair for dissident works
Western governments and the United Nations have expressed concern over the political climate in Bangladesh
Library thrives in Pakistan’s ‘wild west’ gun market town
Libraries are rare in Pakistan's rural areas, and the few that exist in urban centres are often poorly stocked and infrequently used
Sri Lanka welcomes Booker win for novel on civil war
"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" is about a dead war photographer who in the afterlife seeks to expose the brutality of the conflict
To ban or not to ban books
How we perceive the millennial generation would help us accept that book banning is complex, multilayered and multidimensional
Philippine rights groups decry move to ban books tagged as ‘subversive’
“The red-tagging and halting of the distribution of [books] … are shameless and idiotic acts”