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It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its...
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Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan Spence
Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a...
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The Peruvian author, Mario Vargas Llosa, has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Mr Vargas Llosa, who's 74, is one of Latin America's most popular literary figures. He came to prominence in the 1960's with novels such as The Time of the Hero and Conversation in the Cathedral.
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The 2010 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival will be held from 11-19 March. RTHK Radio 3 is proud to be the Radio partner of the festival once again, and Sarah Passmore was joined by Mandla Langa to talk about his own story and his award-winning book The Lost Colours of the Chameleon (2008).
In 1980 he won the Drum story contest and in 1991 he was...
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The 2010 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival will be held from 11-19 March. RTHK Radio 3 is proud to be the Radio partner of the festival once again, and Sarah Passmore was joined by Robert Ryan to talk about the difference between writing journalism and novel, and his writing life.
After studying natural sciences at university in London, he began his...
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Phil on Morning Brew asked how he found Hong Kong has changed since his last visit 18 years ago. Mr Fenton also shared his experiences as journalist in Indo-China and talked about his recent life in the US.
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Minfong Ho, award winning Chinese American writer talks about cross cultural challenges and her books for young readers.
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Phil Whelan meets 2010 Pulitzer prize for verse winner, Rae Armantrout on her poem and asks how she became a poet.
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Ahead of the Hong Kong Book Fair, Phil Whelan meets author Richard Tong, whose published works include "Me and my potato" and "Happy Birthday Bitch"!
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We welcome poet and author Elbert Lee and find out about his latest volume of poetry with a natural flavour, "Rain on the Pacific Coast".
