Afro-Asian Writers' Association

Japanese: アジア･アフリカ作家会議 - アジアアフリカさっかかいぎ（英語表記）Afro‐Asian Writers’ Association

It was founded in 1958 based on the Asian Writers' Conference, which was held in New Delhi in 1956 with Prime Minister Nehru and others as its initiators. The first conference was held in Tashkent, in the Uzbek Republic of the Soviet Union (now the Republic of Uzbekistan), in October of the same year, with approximately 200 people from 37 countries participating. Since then, conferences have been held in Cairo (1962), Beirut (1967), New Delhi (1970), Alma Ata (now Almaty, 1973), and Luanda (1979). The secretariat is now in Beirut, having previously held conferences in Colombo and Cairo.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1956年，ネルー首相らを発起人としてニューデリーで開かれたアジア作家会議が母体となって，58年に発足。同年10月，ソ連邦ウズベク共和国(現，ウズベキスタン共和国)のタシケントで第1回大会が開かれ，37ヵ国約200名が参加。以後，カイロ(1962)，ベイルート(1967)，ニューデリー(1970)，アルマ･アタ(現，アルマトゥイ。1973)，ルアンダ(1979)と大会を重ねた。事務局はコロンボ，カイロを経てベイルートにある。

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