Shanghai International Literary Festival 2010

Welcome to the second weekend of the 8th annual Shanghai International Literary Festival! We had a fabulous first weekend, and are looking forward to hearing more from our 60 authors from 22 countries – novelists, journalists, intellectuals, historians, travel writers, biographers, poets, essayists, crime writers, children’s writers … there's something for everyone!

Session Cancelled: Sunday, March 14, 4pm: Moses Isegawa, The Abyssinian Chronciler. Tickets can be refunded or exchanged at www.mypiao.com or at the M on the Bund ticket office (open only during Festival sessions).

SOLD OUT:

Sunday, March 14 5pm: THE SECOND ANNUAL GREAT FT DEBATE: China Will Be A Superpower by 2020


Upcoming Sessions

Tuesday March 16   18:00 CR
Rena Krasno Memorial Reading
Wednesday March 17   12:30 CR   Francesca Marciano
Writing for the Silver Screen
Wednesday March 17   18:00 GB
POETS ALIVE! A St Patrick’s Day celebration with Irish Poets & lots of Guinness
Friday March 19   12:30 CR   Shamini Flint Kristin Bair O’Keeffe
The Many Roads to Being Published
Friday March 19   18:00 GB   Scott Turow
Legal Mystery

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Tuesday March 16, 6pm



Rena Krasno Memorial Reading
Join us for a celebration of the late Shanghailander Rena Krasno’s life and work. A Russian-Jewish Shanghailander (her uncle was the architect for the Ohel Moishe Synagogue). Focusing on Rena’s relationship with and view of China and Shanghai, friends and colleagues will reminisce and read from “Strangers Always”, “That Last Glorious Summer”, and her children’s book, “Red Kite Blue Cap”, about the relationship between a young Chinese and Jewish boy in old Kaifeng. 
RMB 65, includes a drink and nibbles.




 

TICKETING

All Sessions: RMB 65, includes a drink

Literary Lunches,   RMB 188

Lunch Workshops, RMB 120

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