Architecture & Independence
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaBetween 2001 and 2006, architectural historian Lai Chee Kien conducted a series of interviews with the key architects, engineers and artists who contributed to the landscape of Kuala Lumpur and its outskirts at the time of Independence. The 10 projects – Merdeka Stadium, Merdeka Park, University of Malaya, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Stadium Negara, Muzium […]
Meet the Author: Dato M. Shanmughalingam
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaDato M. Shanmughalingam's short stories and poems have been published in over 30 international and national anthologies in France, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and the US. A winner of the British Council Short Story Prize and editor's choice for the Fish International Short Story Prize, Shan has been an international and current affairs […]
Eliot Weinberger in conversation with Eddin Khoo
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, political commentator, essayist, editor, and translator. He is the translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (2003). He is best known as the primary translator of Octavio Paz's (Nobel prize winning writer, poet and diplomat) works […]
Meet Kubi Springer, brand builder
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaBranding expert Kubi Springer will be at Lit Books to talk about her book, I Am My Brand. The book is a toolkit for personal brand success. Featuring dynamic female brand builders from around the world, the book is a woven tapestry of personal brand advice with storytelling and support that offers a practical guide […]
Up close & personal with Tash Aw
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaUPDATE: We're sold out of tickets. Thank you all for your support! We’re excited to welcome Tash Aw back to Lit Books in December! For those of you who missed out on his author session in August, this is your chance to catch the London-based award-winning Malaysian author in person. Lit Books’ very own […]
Book Discussion: What I Saw in Malaya
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWhat I Saw in Malaya compiles early 20th-century French anthropologist Jeanne Cuisinier’s lectures and methods on observing the lives of Malayan peoples she encountered. Cuisinier has been presented as an anthropologist with an academic yet affectionate attitude towards her Malayan subjects, a gentle presence in Malaya that can shed light on the lifestyles of Malayans […]
Suffian Hakim in conversation with Two Book Nerds Talking
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaWe're delighted to have Suffian Hakim return to Lit Books in December with the illustrated edition of his first novel, Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher, in which a bespectacled boy finds out that magic is disappearing in Singapore... and has to stop it. Together with literary podcaster Two Book Nerds Talking and […]
Launch of 2020: An Anthology
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia2020 — Malaysians have been looking forward to this talismanic year for decades. In fact, we started anticipating it when our seventh Prime Minister was still our fourth. Is 2020 really the year when we suddenly become a modern, progressive society that is the envy of the world? Or have things stagnated and ossified beyond […]
Tan Twan Eng in conversation with Fong Min Hun
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaMalaysian author Tan Twan Eng’s lush and evocative novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, made the headlines when it won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 and then, the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction the following year. It once again made the headlines when the novel was adapted into a film that was […]
Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Sumit Mandal
Lit Books P-1-11 Tropicana Avenue, 12 Persiaran Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MalaysiaEminent Arabist, translator, and traveller Tim Mackintosh-Smith will be at Lit Books to discuss his new book 'Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires' with historian and associate professor at University of Nottingham Malaysia Sumit Mandal.
