In the beginning was the Word If a lion could speak we would not understand him Men make history but they do not make it just as they please Weapons cannot pierce him, fire cannot scorch him You cannot even step into the same river twice From darkness lead us to the light Like the

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NEWS: Bestseller in Vietnam

From the Korean Times. Vietnamese writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu is only 31 years old and has taken Vietnam by storm by selling 80,000 copies of her latest novel The Endless Fields.

The Endless Fields received Vietnam’s most prestigious literary prize, the

Writing from the Pacific in an anthology was the preferred publication mode in the early period of literature from this region. This collection of writing was part of the anthology, Saraga!, published by the Pacific Writing Forum in 2006. Saraga! is a Fijian word, but a word used

The Saraga! Edition of Prose

Like many other national literatures in the post-colonial era, contemporary Pacific writing includes much that would be familiar to readers of recent decades, although there have been new developments. As with many other national literatures, life