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As the 70th anniversary of their destruction approaches, Odyssey tells the story of these uniquely twinned cities using literary extracts from Socrates, Murasaki Shikibu, St Francis Xavier, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Commodore Perry, Vincent Van Gogh, Giacomo Puccini, Jack London, Sun Yat Sen, D. T. Suzuki, Eleanor Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, Dame Edith...
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The Literary Festival doesn’t just focus on just fiction but this year also offers a great platform for nature lovers. This year Sarah Bexell, co-author of Giant Pandas: Born Survivors takes part in the Literary Festival too.
Sarah Bexell is the Director of Conservation Education from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and she talks about the...
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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 will interview Ramachandra Guha.
Ramachandra Guha was recently named as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world by the US magazine, Foreign Policy. He has been a Fellow of the...
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There’s nothing unusual about the Brockets. Boring, respectable and fiercely proud of it, Alistair and Eleanor Brocket turn up their noses at anyone strange or different. But from the moment Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it’s clear he’s anything but normal. To the horror and shame of his parents, Barnaby appears to defy the laws of gravity – and...
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The HK Literary festival is in full swing and as you know their big focus this year is on Scandinavian writers. Now Iceland is one Scandinavian country that is famous for its artists and musicians...and of course its amazing novelists. Our contributor, Reenita Hora got to talk with Sjon who has just flown in from Reykjavik to talk about the influence of myth and...
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A play which was first discovered almost three hundred years ago has finally been published under the name of William Shakespeare.
The work, called "Double Falsehood", was dismissed as a forgery in the eighteenth century.
Now scholars for the British Shakespeare publisher, Arden, say they believe the work was written by the playwright -- who died in 1616 -- in...
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A tale of twisted love, from the author ofThe Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor.
In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night
they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself...
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In an essay entitled 'The Cult of Authenticity', Vikram Chandra responded ten years ago to criticism that his work was not truly 'Indian'. Hugh Chiverton asked him if he still faced the same questions.
Vikram Chandra's first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), was written over several years whilst he obtained an MA at John Hopkins University and an MFA at...
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Jill Dawson is a British writer who has authored seven novels and edited six anthologies of poetry and short stories. Critics call her "one of Britain's most talented contemporary writers." With Jill, Jose "Butch" Dalisay is a leading Filipino writer who has authored or edited over 20 books of fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry and critical work. He has...
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The author Salman Rushdie has pulled out of a literature festival in India.
The writer said he had been warned by intelligence sources that people might have been paid to assassinate him there.
Some Indian Muslim groups had said he should be barred from the festival because of the 20-year-old controversy over his novel the Satanic Verses - which the late...
