Asia Literary Review

Asia Literary Review

Asia Literary Review
Frequency	Quarterly
Year founded	2000
Country	Hong Kong, China
Language	English
Website	asialiteraryreview.com

The Asia Literary Review is a quarterly literary journal published in English and in translation online and in print, and distributed internationally. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography. The journal had its beginnings in Hong Kong in 2000 as a small local literary journal called Dim Sum, founded by Nuri Vittachi. Later Nuri became involved with British businessman and philanthropist Ilyas Khan who provided encouragement and financial support for the first decade. Khan was a Hong Kong supporter of arts and together they created an international showcase for writers from the Asian region.

The journal is an eager advocate of Asian writers, providing a platform for their work to be read in English and thus exposed to an international readership.

The magazine has published interviews with figures such as Aung San Suu Kyi, David Mitchell, Salman Rushdie and Kyung-sook Shin (2011 winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize).

Contributors have included Margaret Atwood, Justin Hill, Liu Xiaobo, Su Tong, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Laurie Thompson, Seamus Heaney, Kim Young-ha, Ko Un, Zheng Danyi, Bei Dao, Shehan Karunatilaka and Xu Xi.

At Poetry Parnassus, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, an Asia Literary Review Celebration Reading was held at the Southbank Centre. Participants included Marjorie Evasco, Jang Jin-sung, Kim Hyesoon, Alvin Pang, Laksmi Pamuntjak and Jennifer Wong.