Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Friday, February 10, 2006

Some of the Festival highlights:

FILM + AUTHOR EVENT
A screening of the critically acclaimed Philip Noyce directed film Rabbit Proof Fence will be followed by a Q&A with Doris Pilkington, the author of the book upon which the film is based. Thursday, 9 March at 7pm.

LITERARY LUNCHES @ THE FRINGE
Are you having lunch in Central? Why not come by the Fringe and enjoy lunch plus a talk with some of the festival’s most engaging authors:
Tuesday, 7 March: Island of Dreams with Charles Foran & Marie Heaney. Moderated by Peter Kennedy.
Friday, 10 March: RTHK presents Hong Kong Makes its Mark with Peter Maize, Eric Stone and Libby Wong. Moderated by RTHK’s Sarah Passmore. Both lunches: 12:30 - 2pm

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT
Come celebrate the occasion with half a dozen of the world’s most interesting women writers over tea at The China Club. Irish writer Marie Heaney, Chinese-American Gish Jen, Indigenous Australian Doris Pilkington; young American Nell Freudenberger, and Filipina poet Marjorie Evasco. Moderated by Rosemary Sayer, Festival Director and author of a biography of Sir Gordon Wu. Wednesday, 8 March at 3:30pm.

SPANISH EVENT: AUTORES AL ATARDECER
Dos autores de lengua española, hablarán de sus obras, vidas, y fuerza creadora: José Carlos Somoza, escritor español nacido en La Habana, Cuba, ganador del premio Café Gijón por La ventana pintada y el premio Fernando Lara por Clara y la penumbra; y Elena Poniatowska Amor, autora mexicana de más de 50 libros, Premio Literario Xavier Villarrutia, México 1971, Premio Nacional de Periodismo México 1979 y galardonada por el Gobierno francés con la Legión de Honor en el 2003. (Sesión conducida en castellano.) Thursday, 9 March @ 7pm.

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Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

The annual Hong Kong International Literary Festival is the premier English-language literary event in East Asia and the only such event explicitly focusing on literature with Asian roots. The Festival features fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction (travel writing, memoirs, etc.) and has a separate youth Festival which takes place concurrently

Contact:

Madeleine Dignam,
General Manager
The Hong Kong International Literary Festival
23/F Success Commercial Building
245-251 Hennessy Rd
Wan Chai
Hong Kong
info@festival.org.hk


Website:

http://www.festival.org.hk
(optional): English(language of website)


Country:

Hong Kong SAR, China

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