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Izzeldin Abuelaish was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strips in the 1950s. He was the first Palestinian medical doctor to receive a staff position at an Israeli hospital. He is the founder of the "Daughters for Life Foundation" in memory of three of his daughters, killed by Israeli tank fire during the Gaza War. In 2010, he was nominated for...
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Elsie Sze is the author of three published novels; Hui Gui: a Chinese story, The Heart of the Buddha, and most recently, Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak. Following her graduation from the University of Hong Kong, she taught at King’s College in Hong Kong for a year, then left her native home to pursue graduate studies at the University of Toronto and the University...
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Andrew Wood from RTHK talks to Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, a commentator on economic and political issues in Asia who works with the Economist Intelligence Unit, and finds out more about the fates of these two countries and how the lives of their people have changed.
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Title: The Slow Road from Authoritarianism to Democracy: Where are...
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Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a translator, writer, and researcher. She translated Sheng Keyi’s novels, Northern Girls, and Fields of White and Death; Chew Kok Chang’s short story collection, Other Cities, Other Lives, and You Jin’s collection of travel essays In Time, Out of Place, and Li Na’s memoir, My Life. She...
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Sarah Brennan is the Hong Kong-based, Australian-born author and publisher of the best-selling Chinese Calendar Tales as well as the hugely popular Dirty Story series for kids. Both of these are wickedly illustrated by Hong Kong’s much loved award-winning cartoonist from the South China Morning Post, Harry Harrison. She was also a featured author in international...
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Date: Thursday, 11 March 2010
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Place: East & West Room, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong
Famously described by W.B. Yeats as “the most handsome man in Britain”, Rupert Brooke, poet, campaigner and aesthete who transfixed admirers of either sex. From an idyllic childhood to a tumultuous breakdown and an untimely death while serving in World War...
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Sarah Passmore asked Emily Gravett how she started her career and why she likeds to draw animals.
Emily Gravett spent eight years living on the road pondering her future before getting a place on the BA illustration course at Brighton University.
Wolves was published to great acclaim in 2005, winning many prizes including the Kate Greenaway Medal and marking...
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Tom Lutz has published two books this year: Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar, and And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit. He is the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of Los Angeles Review of Books and is producer and host of The LARB Radio Hour.
He has written for the New...
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American writer Erica Jong and British writers Jung Chang and William Shawcross joined the Hong Kong Book Fair 2013 and talked about how and why do they become a writer. The two-hour forum was moderated by Sir David Tang.
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Internationally celebrated actor and writer Stephen Fry will be taking part in the Hong Kong Book Fair to talk about his writing and works. And earlier in June, he was interviewed in London by entrepreneur and author Sir David Tang ahead of the Hong Kong Book Fair, and said “I think most human beings have the full range of emotions, and I think it is a fallacy to...
