Reblogged from A year of reading the world:
I expected to find getting a book in English by a Maldivian author fairly straightforward. Given the country's colonial history, I assumed that there would be several things out there and it would just be a case of choosing what to read.
How wrong I was. After weeks of googling around and emailing people, I began to realise that, for some reason, books in English by Maldivian authors were more than a little thin on the ground.