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Catergories: News
More than 90 Australian authors have signed a letter protesting against China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated novelists because he was HIV-positive.
Robert Dessaix, whose 1996 novel "Night Letters" dealt with the European travels of a man diagnosed with an incurable disease, was refused permission to attend the International...
Catergories: Book
The argument over the red dress is the final straw for fourteen-year-old Rifke. Fed up of living in stuffy Johannesburg with her crabby, difficult mother, she snaps and recklessly boards a train out of town.
But her fantasy escape doesn't go exactly to plan, and Rifke ends up in the middle of nowhere. With no train home for thirty days, she is forced to stay...
Catergories: Chinese Literature
In The Boat to Redemption disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved that he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his buttom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. He and his son, Dongliang, make a new life among the boat people where they meet Huixian....
Catergories: Book
In The Boat to Redemption disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved that he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his buttom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. He and his son, Dongliang, make a new life among the boat people where they meet Huixian....
Catergories: Interviews
On Morning Brew Phil Whelan chats with Professor David Parker, who is the Executive Director of the Man Asian Literary Prize about this years' long list of the prize.
http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/
Catergories: Interviews
Sarah Passmore was joined by Dr. Johnson Kendall to review The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe, one of the shortlisted books of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Catergories: News
An outspoken Chinese writer and government critic says he has been blocked from leaving the country to participate in Europe's largest international literary festival in Cologne.
Liao Yiwu, 52, said he was already on the plane in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Monday (1.3.2010) when a flight attendant told him people were looking for him. "A large group of...
Catergories: Interviews
Evelyn Lau tells Sarah Passmore about her book.
Catergories: Interviews
The fourth Man Asian Literary Prize book review: Xuxi, Sarah Lazarous, Justin Hill talk about 'Serious Men' by Joseph Manu to Sarah Passmore on Naked Lunch.
Catergories: Interviews
RTHK Presents: A Literary Lunch with Alexander McCall Smith
Date: Monday, 15 March 2010
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Place: The Helena May, 35 Garden Rd
In Botswana, meet Precious Ramotswe and friends; in Edinburgh, be introduced to amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie; hear the latest hanes from 44 Scotland Street; and at the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg...
