![Amy tan
Best known for her novel The Joy
Luck Club (published in 1989)
Other notable works:
1. The Kitchen Gods Wife (1991)
2. The Bonesetters Daughter (2001)
3. The Valley of Amazement (2013)
4. Where the Past Begins: A Writers
Memoir (2017)
5. The Moon Lady (1992) [childrens
fiction]
6. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
(1994) [childrens fiction]
7. Mother Tongue (1990) [Essay]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-2-320.jpg)
![Maxine hong kingston
Awarded the National Book Award
for her 1980 novel China Men.
Her The Woman Warrior: Memoirs
of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)
won the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Non-fiction.
Other notable works:
1. No Name Woman [Essay] (1976)
2. Through the Black Curtain (1987)
3. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
(2006)
4. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
(2011)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-4-320.jpg)
![Haruki murakami
First novel: Hear the Wind Sing (1979)
Notable Works include:
1. Norwegian Wood (1987)
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95)
3. Kafka on the Shore (2002)
4. 1Q84 (2009-10)
5. First Person Singular (2020) [short
story collection]
6. Underground (1997) [non-fiction]
Was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in
2006 for his novel Kafka on the Shore
Employs Magic Realism in his works
Most of his works are a mix of fantasy
and reality, which he uses to explore
themes like loneliness and self-
discovery](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-5-320.jpg)
![Kazuo ishiguro
known for his lyrical tales of regret
fused with subtle optimism.
In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for
Literature for his works that uncovered
the abyss beneath our illusory sense of
connection with the world.
His The Remains of the Day (1989) won
him the Booker Prize in the same year.
First novel: A Pale View of Hills (1982)
Other notable works:
1. An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
2. The Unconsoled (1995)
3. When We Were Orphans (2000)
4. The Buried Giant (2015)
5. Klara and the Sun (2021)
6. Nocturnes: Stories of Music and
Nightfall (2009) [short story collection]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-6-320.jpg)
![Mohsin hamid
First Novel: Moth Smoke (2000)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)-
shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as
for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in
2008
Other notable works:
1. How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
(2013)
2. Discontent and Its Civilizations:
Dispatches from Lahore, New York &
London(2014) [book of essays]
3. Exit West(2017) - shortlisted for the
Booker Prize
his self-consciously modern writing style
offers a vision of Pakistani modernity
which breaks with the stereotype (that has
prevailed since 9/11) of the region as
fundamentally traditional, backward
looking, essentially anti-modern.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-7-320.jpg)
![Taslima nasrin
Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician,
feminist, secular humanist, and activist.
She is known for her writing on women's
oppression and criticism of religion; some
of her books are banned in Bangladesh.
gained global attention by the beginning
of 1990s owing to her essays and novels
with feminist views and criticism of what
she characterizes as all "misogynistic"
religions.
Lajja (Shame) - published in 1993
[banned by the government due to its
controversial subject matter]
French Lover (2002)
Her memoir-divided into four parts:
1. Amar Meyebela [My Girlhood] (2002)
2. Utal Hawa [Wild Wind]
3. Ka [Speak Up]
4. Sei Sob Ondhokar [Those Dark Days]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-8-320.jpg)
![Shehan karunatilaka
Won the 2022 Booker Prize for his
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
(published the same year)
Won the Commonwealth Book Prize
for his debut novel Chinaman: The
Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Please Don't Put That in Your Mouth
(2019) [childrens fiction]
Shri-Lankan Civil War](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-9-320.jpg)
![Michael ondaatje
Won the Booker Prize in 1992 for
The English Patient
Other notable works:
1. Coming Through Slaughter (1976)
2. Running in the Family (1982)
[memoir]
3. In the Skin of a Lion (1987)
4. The Dainty Monsters (1967) [poetry
collection]
5. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid:
Left-Handed Poems (1970)
6. Secular Love (1984)
7. The Cinnamon Peeler (1989)
8. Handwriting: Poems (1998)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/asianliteraturesinenglishnotableworksandauthors-230901092149-8c1558a9/85/Asian-Literatures-in-English_-Notable-Works-and-Authors-pptx-10-320.jpg)
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- 1. Asian Literatures in English: Texts and Authors Prepared by: Prakruti Bhatt, Research Scholar, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
- 2. Amy tan Best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (published in 1989) Other notable works: 1. The Kitchen Gods Wife (1991) 2. The Bonesetters Daughter (2001) 3. The Valley of Amazement (2013) 4. Where the Past Begins: A Writers Memoir (2017) 5. The Moon Lady (1992) [childrens fiction] 6. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994) [childrens fiction] 7. Mother Tongue (1990) [Essay]
- 3. Tans writing style Her short fiction is grounded in a Chinese tradition of talk story (gong gu tsai), a folk art form by which characters pass on values and teach important lessons through narrative. Other writers, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, employ a similar narrative strategy. Mother Tongue explores Amy Tans relationship with the English language, her mother, and writing. This nonfiction narrative essay was originally given as a talk during the 1989 State of the Language Symposium; it was later published by The Threepenny Review in 1990.
- 4. Maxine hong kingston Awarded the National Book Award for her 1980 novel China Men. Her The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction. Other notable works: 1. No Name Woman [Essay] (1976) 2. Through the Black Curtain (1987) 3. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006) 4. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011)
- 5. Haruki murakami First novel: Hear the Wind Sing (1979) Notable Works include: 1. Norwegian Wood (1987) 2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95) 3. Kafka on the Shore (2002) 4. 1Q84 (2009-10) 5. First Person Singular (2020) [short story collection] 6. Underground (1997) [non-fiction] Was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006 for his novel Kafka on the Shore Employs Magic Realism in his works Most of his works are a mix of fantasy and reality, which he uses to explore themes like loneliness and self- discovery
- 6. Kazuo ishiguro known for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism. In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works that uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world. His The Remains of the Day (1989) won him the Booker Prize in the same year. First novel: A Pale View of Hills (1982) Other notable works: 1. An Artist of the Floating World (1986) 2. The Unconsoled (1995) 3. When We Were Orphans (2000) 4. The Buried Giant (2015) 5. Klara and the Sun (2021) 6. Nocturnes: Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009) [short story collection]
- 7. Mohsin hamid First Novel: Moth Smoke (2000) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)- shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2008 Other notable works: 1. How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) 2. Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York & London(2014) [book of essays] 3. Exit West(2017) - shortlisted for the Booker Prize his self-consciously modern writing style offers a vision of Pakistani modernity which breaks with the stereotype (that has prevailed since 9/11) of the region as fundamentally traditional, backward looking, essentially anti-modern.
- 8. Taslima nasrin Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions. Lajja (Shame) - published in 1993 [banned by the government due to its controversial subject matter] French Lover (2002) Her memoir-divided into four parts: 1. Amar Meyebela [My Girlhood] (2002) 2. Utal Hawa [Wild Wind] 3. Ka [Speak Up] 4. Sei Sob Ondhokar [Those Dark Days]
- 9. Shehan karunatilaka Won the 2022 Booker Prize for his The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (published the same year) Won the Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew Please Don't Put That in Your Mouth (2019) [childrens fiction] Shri-Lankan Civil War
- 10. Michael ondaatje Won the Booker Prize in 1992 for The English Patient Other notable works: 1. Coming Through Slaughter (1976) 2. Running in the Family (1982) [memoir] 3. In the Skin of a Lion (1987) 4. The Dainty Monsters (1967) [poetry collection] 5. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems (1970) 6. Secular Love (1984) 7. The Cinnamon Peeler (1989) 8. Handwriting: Poems (1998)
- 11. Kahlil gibran key figure in the Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century. The Prophet (1923) translated into more than 100 languages: Book of 26 poetic essays Mystic discussions on topics like love, marriage, reason and passion, etc. Influenced by the works of William Blake and Friedrich Nietzsche; as well as the Bible.
- 12. Bahaa taher Awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008 for Sunset Oasis (published in 2007) Notable works include: 1. East of the Palms (1985) 2. Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery (1991) 3. The Point of Light (2001)
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