PENANG BOASTS a flourishing literary ecosystem filled with writers, poets, translators, booksellers, publishers and — of course — readers. With the annual George Town Literary Festival coming up in November, I am jumping on the bandwagon first (and taking you with me) as we talk to a few local writers whose works span across genres, mediums and languages.Anna TanAnna Tan writes fantasy stories and fairy tales, which is unsurprising given her deep interest in Malay/Nusantara and Chinese legends and folklore...
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is a writer and Mandarin-to-English translator whose work has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Strange Horizons, NutMag, Nashville Review and Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @ HengYeh42.