Literary Festival Event list

March 21 (Sunday)

Mr Jam Returns!

10:00 - 11:00

Enter the mad, mad world of Mr Jam, as he regales you with silly stories, tales of the weird and the wonderful – and meet his latest creation, Jeri Telstar, the homework hero, who solves the world’s problems using his brain.
Ages 7-12
Free Session

Author for this program is : Nury Vittachi

The History of Photography in China, 1842-1860

11:00 - 12:00

From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China, foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, Terry Bennett shares the story and the images behind his comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China: the discovery of photography framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade.
RMB 65

Kids! Morris Gleitzman Tells All.

12:00 - 13:00

Give peas a chance … and fun, too, as you listen to the hilarious Australian author Morris Gleitzman tell you some of his very funny stories. Morris Gleitzman knows a lot about what it’s like to be a kid, and writes about situations kids find difficult, too.
Ages 6-12
Free Session

Language of Words, Language of Music

13:00 - 14:00

Playwright, poet, novelist and Commonwealth Writers Prize winner Louis de Bernière best known as the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – but he is also an accomplished musician who plays the flute, the mandolin, and is a member of a band, The Antonius Players. Listen as this gifted writer discusses the relationship between words and music.In conversation with Steve McCarty.
RMB 65

A Post-Colonial View of Colonial Asia

14:00 - 15:00

What does colonial Asia look like from the inside? Malaysian-born Tash Aw moves on from Conrad and Maugham to offer a post-colonial take on colonial-era Malaysia and Indonesia in his exquisitely written novels (the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize award-winning “Harmony Silk Factory” and his new, acclaimed novel, “Map of the Invisible World”.)
RMB 65

The Bloody White Baron

15:00 - 16:00

Journalist James Palmer tells the extraordinary story of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, the Russian nobleman who became the last Khan of Mongolia  - a larger-than-life figure who rode into battle bare-chested and necklaced with bones, painting a fascinating portrait of an appalling man—and of the zeitgeist that shaped him.
RMB 65

South African Fiction After Apartheid

16:00 - 17:00

Two decades after South Africa dismantled apartheid, leading South African author André Brink (“A Dry White Season”) considers the literature that has been produced and the themes and trends that have emerged in response. In conversation with Steve McCarty.
RMB 65

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Literary Lunches,   RMB 188

Lunch Workshops, RMB 120

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