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Catergories: Interviews
Evelyn Lau tells Sarah Passmore about her book.
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
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: Recommendation
EF 'Fred' Benson was a character as extraordinary as any of his creations. Best known for the 'Lucia' books set in a small seaside town in the South of England in the 1920s he was a violently productive writer (100 books including 70 novels), a man with unusual skills (he ice-skated for Britain and had HP Lovecraft as a fan), and a son of the Archbishop of...
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...
Catergories: Interviews
The long list of the Man Asian Literary Prize was announced in 13.12.2010 with some big changes.
For the first time only published authors were invited to submit their work, rather than unpublished authors and with that the ante has been raised with a bigger cash prize for the winner. One of the authors is Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for...
Catergories: News
A book chronicling the famine that killed some 45-million Chinese people under the rule of Chairman Mao has been awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes.
"Mao's Great Famine" by Frank Dikotter details the effects of the Great Leap Forward -- Chairman Mao's rush to turn China into an industrial...
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...
