Asymptote Journal Email Format
Book and Periodical Publishing51-200 Employees
Asymptote Journal operates as a platform for world literature, assembled by editors from around the world to bring translated works and original writing to a global audience. Founded in 2010 by Lee Yew Leong, it relies on a worldwide team spanning five continents and has earned recognition such as the London Book Fair's International Literary Translation Initiative Award in 2015; from 2015 to 2017 the organization partnered with The Guardian for a weekly showcase of new literary translations, reaching about 5.5 million readers. It has published work by international authors including Olga Tokarczuk before her Nobel Prize and counted J.M. Coetzee, a Nobel laureate, as a judge for its 2020 essay contest. Expanding beyond its quarterly issues, Asymptote now maintains a daily blog, a fortnightly newsletter, a monthly podcast, and educational guides that accompany free issues; it also runs a book club delivering physical books to subscribers. In 2022 it formed a partnership with Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd. in Tanzania to publish the winning manuscripts.