literary festival

Archive Programme

Programme 2009 (PDF, 5.3 MB)
Programme 2008 (PDF, 5.7 MB)
Programme 2007 (PDF, 3.2 MB)

2010-03-05 19:30 GB: The Eighth Annual Literary Festival Opening

2010-03-05 18:00 GB Dario Castagno: Traipsing through Tuscany with Travel Writer Dario Castagno

2010-03-06 17:00 GB John Erni, Lucetta Kam, Zhou Dan: Framing Queer Asia: Cultural and Legal Perspectives

2010-03-06 16:00 CR Hyejin Kim: Writing Contemporary Historical Fiction

2010-03-06 15:00 GB Asne Seirestad: The Human Side of Catastrophes: Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Serbia.

2010-03-06 14:00 CR Yuan Tsung Chen: Return to the Middle Kingdom: The Story of One Family, Three Revolutionaries and the Birth of Modern China.

2010-03-06 11:00 GB Ken Smith: Fate! Luck! Chance! Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace and the Making of The Bonesetter’s Daughter Opera

2010-03-06 12:00 CR Lars Bukdahl, RiittaJalonen, ÅsneSeirestad and Sjón: Northern Lights: Nordic Literature, Smørrebrød& Aquavit

2010-03-06 13:00 GB David Grossman: Conflict, Confrontation & Drama: David Grossman on modern Israel

2010-03-06 10:00 CR Sarah Brennan: The Tale of Temujin - A Tale of Tigers, Terror and Tantrums!

2010-03-07 13:00 CR Alexis Wright: The Changing World of the Novel in the Australian Literary Landscape

2010-03-07 14:00 GB Amy Sommers: CHINA’S LITERARY LEGACY: Outsiders Looking In - Forgotten Memoirs

2010-03-07 15:00 GB Robert Dessaix: Meet Robert Dessaix: Award winning novelist, essayist, interviewer,translator, broadcaster, biographer, travel writer and more....

2010-03-07 15:00 Paul French: The Down and Dirty Secrets of Seedy Shanghai and Perverted Peking

2010-03-07 17:00 GB Junot Diaz: Oscar Wao and the Eternal Quest for Home

2010-03-07 16:00 CR Bi Feiyu: Writing the Female Psyche

2010-03-07 10:00 CR Sarah Brennan: How To Write a Riveting Story

2010-03-07 11:00 GB Riitta Jalonen: Make It Up: Creating Teenage Fiction

2010-03-07 12:00 CR Kristen Bair O’Keeffe: “Hi, My Name Is___”: Shameless Self-Promotion & The Art of Social Networking for Authors

2010-03-10 19:00 GB Lars Bukdahl and Sjon: Meet Danish and Icelandic Writers Lars &Sjón

2010-03-11 12:30 CR Sarah Brennan: Publish Your Own Children’s Picture Book: From Brilliant Idea to Final Product

2010-03-11 18:00 GB David Leffman and Garry Marchant: Road Scribes: Tales from the Asian Road

2010-03-13 15:00 GB Tess Johnston: From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century

2010-03-13 14:00 CR Emily Perkins: Not Her Real Name

2010-03-13 13:00 GB Charles Emmerson: The Future History of the Arctic

2010-03-13 16:00 CR Rachel Kushner: Telex from Cuba

2010-03-13 10:00 CR Margaret Read MacDonald: Story Play! World Folktales Alive!

2010-03-13 11:00 GB Andrew Field: Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954

2010-03-13 12:00 CR Alan Titley: Beyond the Knacker’s Yard: An irish Writer Reads

2010-03-13 17:00 GB Su Tong: Inspiration, Memory and Childhood

2010-03-14 12:00 Alice Pung: Unpolished Gem: Giving Voice to the Migrant Story

2010-03-14 11:00 Graham Freudenberg: Churchill and Australia: 2009 Walkley Award winner

2010-03-14 09:30 Schatz & Blackrose: The Book: Visual storytelling & bookmaking workshop (children)

2010-03-14 13:00 Ramachandra Guha: Why Mahatma Gandhi Matters – To India, and To The World.

2010-03-14 14:00 Jose Dalisay: Why You’ve Probably Never Heard of Me (and other Filipino Writers)

2010-03-14 15:00 Les Murray: A reading by Australia’s leading poet

2010-03-14 17:00 John Authers, Mure Dickie, James Kynge, Richard McGregor: The Second Annual Great FT Debate: China will be a Superpower by 2020

2010-03-16 18:00 CR: Rena Krasno Memorial Reading

2010-03-17 12:30 CR Francesca Marciano: Writing for the Silver Screen

2010-03-17 18:00 GB: POETS ALIVE! A St Patrick’s Day celebration with Irish Poets & lots of Guinness

2010-03-19 12:30 CR Shamini Flint Kristin Bair O’Keeffe: The Many Roads to Being Published

2010-03-19 18:00 GB Scott Turow: Legal Mystery

2010-03-20 10:00 CR Shamini Flint: Panda Packs Her Bags

2010-03-20 11:00 GB Christoph Valentien: Shanghai’s New Botanic Garden

2010-03-20 12:00 CR Francesca Marciano: East Africa, Afghanistan and Southern Italy – what do they have in common?

2010-03-20 13:00 GB Linda Jaivin: A Most Immoral Afternoon with Linda Jaivin

2010-03-20 15:00 Fred Wah: Messing Around with Mr In-Between

2010-03-20 14:00 Mandla Langa: Colours of the Chameleon: Writing to Suit the Times

2010-03-20 17:00 Nury Vittachi and Shamini Flint: Asian Crime Gang: Meet the FengShui Detective and Inspector Singh

2010-03-20 16:00 Mo Zhi Hong: The Year of the Shanghai Shark

2010-03-21 10:00 CR Nury Vittachi: Mr Jam Returns!

2010-03-21 11:00 GB Terry Bennett: The History of Photography in China, 1842-1860

2010-03-21 12:00 CR Morris Gleitzman: Kids! Morris Gleitzman Tells All.

2010-03-21 13:00 GB Louis de Bernière: Language of Words, Language of Music

2010-03-21 14:00 CR Tash Aw: A Post-Colonial View of Colonial Asia

2010-03-21 15:00 GB James Palmer: The Bloody White Baron

2010-03-21 16:00 CR Andre Brink: South African Fiction After Apartheid

2010-03-21 17:00 GB Peter Hessler: Country Driving: Journey from Farm to Factory

Literary Festival calendar

TICKETING

All Sessions: RMB 65, includes a drink

Literary Lunches, RMB 188

Lunch Workshops, RMB 120

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