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Andrew Dembina spoke to one of the organisers – Douglas Kerr of Hong Kong University, the festival’s board director – for a low-down on the event. And secondary school English teacher, Alison Marriott of Singapore International School tells us how her students will take an active part in the festival, including workshops with a visiting author.
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Sarah Brennan is a publisher of the best-selling Chinese Calendar
Tales and also author of the humorous parenting advice manual Dummies for Mummies published by Haven Books.
Sarah Brennan is one of guest writers in the Hong Kong International
Young Readers Literary Festival 2012. She talks to Crystal Kwok on
Kwok Talk about her new book "The Tale of Pin Yin...
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Finnish Antti Tuomainen tells Noreen Mir why he changed his job from a copywriter to writer and talks about his writing.
Finnish Antti Tuomainen, born in 1971, was an award-winning copywriter in the advertising industry before he made his literary debut in 2007 with A Killer, I Wish. His works also included My Brother's Keeper and The Healer, which was awarded the...
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Ritu Hemnani’s first children’s book was Gope and Meera – A Migration Story. Her short stories and articles have been published in the Asian Literary Review, Reader’s Digest and Expat Living Magazine. Ritu is also a committed writing ambassador for the Home of Loving Faithfulness, which serves the mentally and physically disabled of Hong Kong.
On 123...
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The movie, The Japanese Wife, is about a young Bengali village school teacher who marries his Japanese pen friend over letters and remains true and loyal to her throughout his life, while never actually meeting her. It is based on a book of the same title by Dr. Kunal Basu. He has written novels, a collection of short stories and screen plays. This session was...
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Alison Wong is a poet and novelist of New Zealand Chinese ancestry. Her first novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction. She was joined by RTHK Reenita Malhotra Hora to discuss her book's themes love, racial tension and prejudice on 6th October,11am-12nn at the Kee Club.
***We apologise for the poor recording...
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Peter Brown’s books are being adapted into children’s plays and short films, and they have been translated into more than a dozen languages around the world. Peter is one of the guests of the Hong Kong International Young Readers Literary Festival 2012.
Peter talks to Reenita Malhotra Hora about his favourite children book and tells her why picture books are...
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Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia.
He is the former winner of the Australian Poetry Slam and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam. He has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and...
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Joe Dunthorne’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and has featured on Channel 4, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. A pamphlet collection, Joe Dunthorne: Faber New Poets 5 was published in 2010. His first novel, Submarine, was published in 2008 and was made into a film which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2011. His second novel, Wild Abandon, was...
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Dim Sum & Then Some Presents: Sex and Literature
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Place: M1NT, 108 Hollywood Road, Central
Warning: Adult content with indecent language
Linda Jaivin shared her thoughts on the often complex relationship between literature and sex. How has the erotic domain of human experience inspired authors and...
