Authors Asia unites fiction writers, essayists, indigenous bards, and translators across 40+ Asian tongues—funding direct translations, recording endangered oral epics, and defending writer sovereignty.
Bypassing colonial intermediaries to translate seminal works directly between Asian languages.
Recording oral epics, indigenous folklore, and endangered tongues before they disappear from memory.
Protecting intellectual property, fair contracts, and resisting unauthorized generative AI data harvesting.
An authentic institutional architecture designed to empower writers, safeguard living heritage, and cultivate cross-lingual understanding across all Asian civilizations.
Funding and facilitating high-fidelity literary translations between Asian languages—enabling a Bengali novel, Japanese haiku, Persian ghazal, or Thai fable to be directly read across regional dialects without Eurocentric mediation.
Convening intimate hybrid writing retreats and peer masterclasses connecting emerging Asian novelists and dramatists with veteran literary editors, publishers, and scholars.
Deploying field recording expeditions to document dying regional tongues, musical storytelling, and oral historical ballads across Himalayan, steppe, and archipelagic communities.
Advocating for fair remuneration, licensing protections against unauthorized training of generative AI on Asian literary works, and independent publishing rights.
“The true soul of Asia is documented in the verses of our poets, the observations of our essayists, and the enduring folktales whispered across our villages. We must ensure that Asian writers are neither silenced by commercial homogenization nor stripped of their intellectual sovereignty. While our digital fellowship and translation grants portal undergoes scheduled staging, our literary saloons and translation committees remain vigorously active.”
Stewarding the multilateral civil architecture of Asia Association, Sushant Mehta guides Authors Asia with a dedication to linguistic pluralism, ethical translation grants, and the cultural preservation of Asian literature.
Submit formal manuscript proposals, translation grant inquiries, or oral lore preservation projects directly to our Secretariat Literary Intake Desk.