'We relate to loneliness, so we write of it'

India, Jan. 10 -- 1Did you write the novel during the pandemic or did you approach it later? I had been wanting to write this book even before the pandemic. It was more about fitting a male character ... Read More

Kumi Kimura: "My experience in India influenced the writing of the book"

India, Jan. 10 -- Did you write the novel during the pandemic or did you approach it retrospectively? I had been wanting to write this book even before the pandemic and it was more about fitting a ma... Read More

Akira Otani: "Queerness often shows up in my writing"

India, Dec. 31 -- What inspired you to write The Night of Baba Yaga, a novel where two women find each other in the yakuza underworld? The initial spark was a desire to capture action using prose. Th... Read More

HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- British author Deborah Levy's Hot Milk is a novel that lives inside 25-year-old anthropology student Sofia's head. A memory, in fact, fragmented, sensory and unreliable. Add to that ... Read More

"Annie Ernaux hardly ever juggles with jargon so translation is not difficult"

India, Nov. 24 -- What drew you to translate Annie Ernaux's work, and Une femme specifically? I was a teacher of French literature in Pondicherry University and I had previous knowledge of Annie Erna... Read More

'Most Americans don't know we were their colony'

India, Nov. 22 -- 1What makes Filipino literature unique in the global literary landscape? Our people's story is one of enormous suffering and sacrifice, but also of survival; occasionally we achieve ... Read More

Jose Dalisay Jr: "Most Americans don't even know we were their colony"

India, Nov. 21 -- What makes Filipino literature unique in the global literary landscape? Our people's story is one of enormous suffering and sacrifice, but also of survival; occasionally we achieve ... Read More