As the Chinese New Year celebrations draw to an end, Wales Literature Exchange is pleased to announce a series of events aiming to connect authors, translators and publishers in Wales with East Asia.

• Early March, one of our Bookshelf authors, Francesca Rhydderch will appear at The Beijing Bookworm International Festival, to discuss her novel, The Rice Paper Diaries (Seren, 2013), which is partly set in Hong Kong during the Second World War.

• Korea will be the Market Focus at the London Book Fair, held this year between April 8-10th. As a key partner to the Literary Translation Centre at the book fair, Wales Literature Exchange had been central to the development of the Centre’s exciting and innovative, soon to be announced programme.

• Wales Literature Exchange in partnership with the British Council will bring a taste of the London Book Fair to Wales on Friday, April 11th 2014. In an evening held at the Seddon Room, Old College, Aberystwyth, one of Korea's foremost literary figures, Lee Seung-U, will discuss his work, with Francesca Rhydderch. The event will start at 18:00, tickets are £5 / £3, (free to the unemployed), and will be followed by a wine reception. For further information regarding the event, contact post@waleslitexchange.org.

• To celebrate the publication of the Wales focus edition of Foreign Literature and Art, a leading Chinese review, Wales Literature Exchange and the School of Modern Languages Centre at Bangor University will hold a symposium on literature and publishing exchange between Wales and China on Friday, May 2nd, 2014.

• As part of the symposium, Wales Literature Exchange will welcome representatives from Shanghai Translation Publishing House, the largest comprehensive translation publishing house in China to Wales. As part of their visit to Wales, Wales Literature Exchange will organise a series of meetings between the publishers and some of Wales’ leading writers and editors.

We look forward to looking East and discovering more.