Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2013 Programme Brochure by HKILF

Chang, Jung

Christian Jungersen

Evie Wyld

Ă&#x2026;ke Edwardson

Dinaw Mengustu

Duncan Jepson

Glen Duncan

Graeme Simsion

Justin Hill

Kyung Sook Shin

Ma Jian

Marshall Moore

Phillip Kim

Xu Xi

Thomas Enger

Welcome to the 13th edition of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. For ten days starting on 1st of November, we invite you to join us on a literary journey which will take us from this corner of the South China Sea, to the far end of the world that is Iceland. In between, we will make stops in India, Ethiopia, United States of America, Trinidad, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, then heading east to South Korea, Mongolia and Mainland China, before returning home, nourished, stimulated and rejuvenated. Along the way, you will meet our international roster of visiting authors including the incomparable Jung Chang, Kyung-sook Shin, Ma Jian, Evie Wyld, Glen Duncan, Graeme Simsion, Dinaw Mengestu, the Nordic crime fiction and literary masters such as Åke Edwardson, Thomas Enger and Christian Jungersen. Our city’s own talent, acclaimed writers such as Duncan Jepson, Xu Xi, Justin Hill, Phillip Kim and Marshall Moore, join the line-up. As you flip through this Programme Book, you will notice the many new features that help make this Festival one of the most important and multi-faceted literary events in our city. From the new Coffee and News series where headline news of the day takes center-stage, to the all-new priority postal booking, to discounted tickets for students attending our main-stage events, we hope our events are as easily accessible as they are enjoyable. Before setting sail, we would like to give our biggest thanks to the many people who have made this festival possible. First and foremost, a big thank you to our brilliant writers and speakers, for your reinforcement that words and ideas are as essential as food, water and oxygen. To our wonderful audience, new and old, who make all our work worthwhile with your presence, cheers and invaluable feedback. A round of applause to our Sponsors, Partners and Donors. Without your generosity in funding and spirit, the festival simply couldn’t have grown and flourished thus far. Finally, hats off to our very committed staff and volunteers who form the strong hull of this ship. On this note, here goes the ship horn. Let the stories begin!

Gabriela Kennedy

Christine Van

Co-chairs Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited

Booking Information

Box Office Opens from 3 Oct onwards For events at The Fringe Club, Kee Club, The Helena May, Home, and the City University of Hong Kong CITYLINE Hotlines: (10am – 8pm) (852) 2314 4228 (Telephone Enquiries) (852) 2111 5333 (Telephone Booking – Events)

Online: www.cityline.com.hk In Person: Tom Lee Music Stores www.tomleemusic.com.hk/stores.php

For events at Hong Kong Arts Centre URBTIX Hotlines:

(10am – 8pm) (852) 2734 9009 (Telephone Enquiries) (852) 2111 5999 (Telephone Credit Card Bookings)

Online: www.urbtix.com.hk In person: Tom Lee Music Stores and other venues: www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Entertainment/Ticket/en/counter.php For programming enquiries, please contact the Festival office at: (852) 2877 9770 or events@festival.org.hk

Please note: Late-comers:

Please arrive in time for your event as late admissions can be disruptive to the speakers and audience members alike. You may not be admitted after the beginning of events and no refunds will be given.

Free Seating:

Seating is unreserved with the exception of a small number of reserved seats for sponsors.

Full-time students are entitled to a discount of 50%. With quota on a first-come-first-served basis.

Contents 01

Welcome Message

Booking Information

Feature

Focus - Scandinavian Literature

Discover

Excite

Citylife

Word & Stage

Workshop and Symposium

Schools Programme

Ticketing Information

Festival at a Glance

Donation Form

Participants

Panellists & Moderators

Venues

Keep in Touch

Acknowledgements

Board & Staff

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FEATURE Headline Authors and Events

I always wanted to be a writer. ----------- Jung Chang

FEATURE Korean Literature: Found in Translation: Kyung-sook Shin (131102K71) 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 7, Kee Club| $260 Riding on the ‘Korean Wave’ fuelled by the country’s economic surge, Korean writers have gained unprecedented popularity far beyond their borders. And one of the most lauded successes can be found in the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung–sook Shin. Her bestselling novel, Please Look After Mom, is her first work translated into English and has become the first Korean novel to make it on the coveted New York Times Bestseller List. Shin speaks to Korean linguist Kelly Falconer about her literary ascent, her country’s drive to advance Korean literature in the world, and finding her own place in the flow of Korea.

Guo Xiaolu: I am China (131107FD1) 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM| 7/11/2013 (Thur) Underground, The Fringe Club| $160

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Novelist and award-winning film-maker, Guo Xiaolu has found considerable success in both genres. A controversial cultural figure with a unique vantage point, she has published seven works of poignant and witty novels, including A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Her forthcoming novel, I am China, was excerpted for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. On this much anticipated return visit, the outspoken author will disclose the impact of the recent accolade from Granta and how she finds her own voice in her adopted society.

The Legend Returns. Jung Chang in Person (131102CU1) 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM| 2/11/2013 (Sat) Lecture Theatre 18, 4F, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Price: Free With her books having sold over 15 millions internationally, the London-based Chinese author Jung Chang needs no introduction. First book in eight years, her new biography Empress Dowager Cixi promises to overturn conventional understanding of the concubine who launched modern China. In this intimate talk, she looks back on her brilliant career and colourful life outside of the books. A treasured opportunity to meet the literary icon, and experience her inimitable eloquence and intellect. This event, sponsored by the City University of Hong Kong, is free and open to the public. Please register at events@festival.org.hk, titled Jung Chang in Person. Friends of the Festival: Please register with your membership number and bring your card to enjoy VIP seats.

Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project: From Print to Screen (131108FD1) 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM| 8/11/2013 (Fri) Underground, The Fringe Club| $180 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart. The feel-good hit of 2013. The Rosie Project, about a socially challenged professor looking for love, has been sold in 35 countries with a screenplay based on the novel optioned by Sony Pictures. Successful businessman turned hit novelist, Graeme Simsion shares with the audience the joys, heartbreaks, and the do's and dont's of turning printed works into films.

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Make it Big in Rising Asia: A Matter of Good Fortune? (131109FD5) 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM| 9/11/2013 (Sat)| Underground, The Fringe Club| $200

Ma Jian: The Dark Road China's One Child Policy (131109FD2) 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM| 9/11/2013 (Sat)| Underground, The Fringe Club| $160 Ma Jian’s latest novel The Dark Road, which explores the terrible effects of the One Child Policy on Chinese women, is the latest in a string of his works banned in Mainland China since 1987 due to his criticisms of the Chinese government. Returning to the HKILF stage after his 2006 appearance, the Chinese dissident author, to be interviewed by translator and publisher Harvey Thomlinson, speaks up on the policy that has deep social, economic and medical impacts on the country.

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Do you want to write about Asia’s One Percent? Or even join them? Then come and take part in this BBC recording of the Forum discussion programme moderated by Bridget Kendall. She asks where the new and distinctive, the rags-to-riches tales of “The Great Gatsby” might come from, examines the deeper perils and fantasies of Asian capitalism and finds out what role luck plays in all these. Perspectives from banker-turned-novelist Phillip Kim, neo-Victorian specialist Liz Ho, and designer Leslie Lu.

THE FORUM from BBC WORLD SERVICE BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall brings together remarkable minds from around the world to talk about the subjects they’re experts on — and the ones they want to know more about. Diplomats question composers, scientists challenge historians, and poets converse with economists. @ BBCTheForum

FOCUS Scandinavian Literature

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just dark in Scandinavia. ----------- Bo Brennan

SCANDI LIT

Sjón: Myths, Muses and My Life with Björk (131102FU4) 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM| 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club | $140

Christian Jungersen You Disappear (131104FD1) 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM| 4/11/2013 (Mon) Underground, The Fringe Club| $130 His debut novel, Thickets, was on the Danish bestseller list for three months in 1999. With his follow-up novel, The Exception, he has become an international bestselling novelist. You Disappear, the third novel by Danish author Christian Jungersen, promises to go even further. The English translation is due out in January 2014. HKILF will be the first venue in the world where Jungersen will give a reading from this novel and to present it to the audience for debate. Don’t miss this world premiere reading!

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Cosmology. Surrealism. The one-nostril hidden people of Iceland. Björk. What do they have in common? Icelandic Renaissance man Sjón. As a lyricist, he frequently collaborates with the iconic singer. As a performer, he has appeared on stage with the band Sugercubes. As a poet and writer, Sjón’s work, often tinged with mystic and folklores, has been translated into over 25 languages, making him one of the most important cultural figures in Scandinavia. In his first Hong Kong appearance, he explores the pantheon of mythical muses and legends and their literary powers.

SCANDI NOIR Deaths in Cold Climate! Panel Discussion (131102FU7) 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM| 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club | $180 Scandi Noir fans alert! With the huge international successes earned by Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Henning Mankell’s Wallander series, Scandinavian crime fiction is clearly riding on the crest of its tidal wave. Writing in a distinctive style echoing Scandinavia’s other artistic and aesthetic qualities – “realistic, simple and precise… and stripped of unnecessary words” - our star panel of Åke Edwardson, Christian Moerk, Antti Tuomainen and Thomas Enger, discuss the past, the present and the future of writing about deaths in this very cold climate.

Henning Juul and his Creator Thomas Enger: Angels and Demons (131103AM4) 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM| 3/11/2013 (Sun) McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre| $ 140

When his four books about a woman in New York went nowhere, Norwegian author Thomas Enger returned to his professional roots and wrote three consecutive crime fiction international bestsellers about the journalist Henning Juul. Having been compared to the Norwegian great Jo Nesbø, Enger talks about the angels and demons, whom the protagonist and the writer/composer both confront. “Enger is one of the most unusual and intense talents in the field” - The Independent

Thomas Enger is sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy and NORLA.

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Christian Moerk

Duncan Jepson

Motives for Crime: Christian Moerk and Duncan Jepson (131102K62) 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club | $160 (price includes a drink) The unusual pedigree of Darling Jim - a debut American novel about mysterious killings in Dublin written by a young Danish author - has put the charismatic Christian Moerk on the literary map, earning kudos from no less than New York Times critic Marilyn Stasio. Moerk talks about the many inspirations for the book’s multi-layered structure including Kurosawa’s film Rashomon. Sharing the stage is Hong Kong’s own Duncan Jepson. The first of his two-part crime fiction series for the publisher Quercus, Emperors Once More, due out in early 2014, follows a serial killer on the loose in Hong Kong who is motivated by Chinese history.

From Ad to Fiction Antti Tuomainen on the Art of Persuasion (131102K61) 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club | HK$ 160 (price includes a drink) From being an award-winning copywriter in advertising to winning the coveted Glass Key Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel in 2012 (previous winners include Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson), Antti Tuomainen is one of the first authors to challenge the Scandinavian crime genre formula by delving into the bleak, murderous world of climate change. From a dystopian futuristic Helsinki to his HKILF debut, Tuomainen talks about his work, climate change, and why every working copywriter has a novel hidden in their “Next Career” folder.

Antti Tuomainen is sponsored by the Consulate General of Finland Hong Kong & Macao.

Åke Edwardson: Winter, Murder, and the Seedy Gotheburg (131102K63) 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club| $ 160 (price includes a drink) One of Scandinavia’s most successful crime writers and a three-time Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction Award, Åke Edwardson has put Gotheburg in literary limelight with his highly popular Inspector Winter series set in the second largest city in Sweden. Eloquent and deeply literary, the Scandi-noir master shares thoughts and ideas on the crime fiction genre and beyond with Douglas Kerr, the author of the recently published book on Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Åke Edwardson is sponsored by the Consulate General of Sweden.

DISCOVER Rising Literary Stars Adventures . Discoveries

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. ----------- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

DISCOVER

How to Read the Air! Meet Dinaw Mengestu (131102FU3) 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM| 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club| $130

The Firebirds: In Conversation with Evie Wyld

“Remarkably talented” Ethiopian American author Dinaw Mengestu has earned a mantel of awards and distinctions such as a place on the 2010 New Yorker’s coveted list of ’20 under 40’ with his outstanding debut and follow-up novels. Children of the Revolution and How to Read the Air are two fictional accounts of displacement and identity experienced by immigrants. He speaks to Akin Jeje about his two books, and together cuts into African Writing and authenticity. On How to Read the Air “A straight-forward, compassionate, keenly sensitive observer of real life” – The Guardian

(131102FU2) 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM| 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club| $130 Evie Wyld, one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013, is heading for the literary major league with her two splendidly acclaimed novels - All the Birds, Singing and After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. Her writing career is about to take a new angle with her first graphic novel in the pipeline. Liz Ho speaks with one of Britain’s most compelling voices and discovers what the fuss is all about. On All the Birds, Singing: “Completely and utterly monumental” – BBC Radio 4 "Extraordinarily accomplished.” – Financial Times

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Andrew Lam and Xu Xi: Our Private Diasporas (131109K62) 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM| 9/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club| HK$ 160 (price includes a drink) Shimmering with humour and pathos, the works by US writer Andrew Lam, including his 2013 release, Birds of Paradise Lost, relive the immigrant experience in living and breathing portraits. A refugee from the Fall of Saigon in 1975, Lam shares the stage with Hong Kong’s Xu Xi, author of novel Habit of a Foreign Sky, and together they explore the tension, struggle, conciliation, and, ultimately, hope of immigration.

Dinaw Mengestu and Andrew Lam are supported by the U.S. Consulate General.

Five Movements in Praise: Sharmistha Mohanty (131109FD4) 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM | 9/11/2013 (Sat) Underground, The Fringe Club| $140 Town. Forest. City. Caves and Landscapes. The five sections in Indian author Sharmistha Mohanty’s new book of fiction, Five Movements in Praise, stream through exquisitely. Together with her two previous novels, Book One and New Life, her works have situated her as one of the most exciting and innovative writers of her generation. She will read from her new book and have a conversation with author and Radio 3 producer Reenita Malhotra Hora about her works and founding Almost Island, her publishing house and literary journal.

Walk Home from Mongolia: Rob Lilwall (131103AM3)

The Day After the Awards: Round Table on What Awards and Nominations Do for, or to You (131103AM1) 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM| 3/11/2013 (Sun) McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre| $180 You toil away for months and years. You suffer the jitters when the book comes out. Finally your agent calls. You have won the prestigious nomination and later, the award! After all the thrills, congratulations and promises, what’s next? For this roundtable event, we invite award-winning authors Evie Wyld (Granta), Dinaw Mengestu (Guardian First Book Award), Sarah Bynum (Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize), and Åke Edwardson (three-time Swedish Crime writers’ Academy for best crime novel winner) to share their experience in coping with the up's and down's of the ‘game’ of awards. Justin Hill, a Man Booker nominee, moderates.

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 3/11/2013 (Sun) McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre| $130 Whether it was an epic walk from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia or a 3-year bike ride from Siberia, born-to-be-free Rob Lilwall travelled great distances and battled the elements to prove his motto of “treating the whole of life… as an adventure.” The author, TV adventurer and motivational speaker talks to Nury Vittachi about the aspirations, memorable vignettes and lessons learned from his grueling but inspiring, and at times comical, journeys. HKILF Audience Privilege: those attending this event can purchase the early copies of Lilwall’s latest book, Walking Home from Mongolia, to be officially released on 21 November.

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Justin Hill – The Drink and Dream Teahouse: Author-led Book Club Session (131108FV1) 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM| 8/11/2013 (Fri) Vault, The Fringe Club $100 (price includes refreshment)

Sarah Bexell: Giant Pandas: Born Survivors (131105FD1) 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | 5/11/2013 (Tue) Underground, The Fringe Club| $160 Panda research expert and co-author of Giant Pandas: Born Survivors, Dr Sarah Bexell has made China her second home since 1999 when she joined Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding as their Director of Conservation Education. At this talk, Dr Bexell takes you to the heart of the battle of their surival. Together with Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Director Suzanne Gendron, they explore the conservation icon’s behaviour, address environmental issues our planet faces and deconstruct some of the myths surrounding China’s most famous and perhaps most misunderstood animal.

Dr Sarah Bexell is supported by the U.S. Consulate General.

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Book lovers alert! Join us for this special author-led book club discussion. A breakthrough novel that garnered him many accolades and much recognition, The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Hong Kong-based English author Justin Hill, re-released in March this year, is set in contemporary rural China, post-Tiananmen Square. Hill will lead the discussion and the analysis of this story about how the clash between Chinese communism and Western capitalism affected families with the promise of a new China. For purchase of the book, please refer to Dymocks’ store locations.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Becoming Dickens (131107HG1) 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM| 7/11/2013 (Thur) Garden Room, The Helena May $220 (price includes a drink) “What might have been, and what was not” is a central question explored in Robert DouglasFairhurst’s provocative biography on the young life of Charles Dickens. Focused on the 1830s, the wildly acclaimed book by the Oxford scholar portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements. Join this brilliant author on a discovery path leading to not only England’s greatest novelist but also the 1863 classic - The Water Babies, which causes quite a stir now as it did 150 years ago.

Sherlock Holmes and the Spirits: Douglas Kerr (131107FD2) 08:30 PM - 09:30 PM| 7/11/2013 (Thur) Underground, The Fringe Club| $140 Arthur Conan Doyle invented one of the most successful literary characters ever. Holmes is brilliant, cerebral, scientific. His creator too trained as a scientist, but he was also a romantic. He responded generously to the world about him, frequently campaigning against injustices. Popular and respected, he wrote crime and horror stories, historical and science fiction. Yet many came to think of him as a gullible old fool, a fervent spiritualist who believed in the authenticity of photographs of fairies. Douglas Kerr unravels the paradoxes surrounding the most famous crime writer of them all.

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DISCOVER

Evan Fallenberg

Andrew Lam

Nicholas Wong Marshall Moore

Nigel Collett

Pride Lit: Read Out and Speak Up (131109FD6) 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 9/11/2013 (Sat) Underground, The Fringe Club | $150

In conjunction with the Tonzhi Literary Group. Part of the 2013 Pink Season.

Part 1 ) Read and Lift: An international panel of Festival authors Andrew Lam (US), Evan Fallenberg (Israel), Marshall Moore and poet Nicholas Wong (both from Hong Kong), offers excerpts from their latest works in our prelude session. Expect to be entertained, engaged and thrilled by the written word read out loud. Part 2)

Speak Up: Given the recent heated discussion over gay marriage all around us, are the gay movement and gay writing moving in opposite directions or the same? Is it gay writer or writer who happens to be gay? Do gay writers have a social responsibility beyond creating the artistic work itself? Our international panel speakers will examine these questions and more. Nigel Collett moderates. HKILF 2013

EXCITE Food. Sex. Love. Senses.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt. ----------- Charles M. Schultz

EXCITE Good Sex in Fiction: Panel Discussion (131102K64) 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club| $180 (includes a drink) Crafting a convincing sex scene in a novel is a difficult task. Things can go very wrong very easily. From Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, to Nabokov’s Lolita and Sebag-Montefiore’s Sashenka: A Novel, novelists have over the ages tried to capture the essence of love and desire with varying degrees of success. To destruct the mystery of writing good sex in fiction, we gather our HKILF authors Monique Roffey, Christian Jungersen – to disclose their own favourite sex scenes in literature and offer insights into the language of lust.

Fairy Tales Not For Kids: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (131102FU5) 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club | $130 W.H. Auden once said that fairy tales “rank next to the Bible in their importance” as a literary influence. The New Yorker’s ‘20 Under 40’ and National Book Award shortlisted fiction writer, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum has written two exquisite novels, including Madeleine is Sleeping, which are both characterized by a dream-like nostalgia and the fantastical. Bynum shares her list of favourite tales and their influences on her own adult ones. On Madeleine is Sleeping “A small, enchanting novel that appeals to the naughty… insolent child in each of us.” – USA Today

Sarah Bynum is supported by the U.S. Consulate General. HKILF 2013

The Last Werewolf: Literary Fiction at its Feral, Furry Best (131108FV2) 08:30 PM - 09:30 PM | 8/11/2013 (Fri) Vault, The Fringe Club | $160 British author Glen Duncan had written seven works of literary fiction before penning The Last Werewolf, a bestselling thriller with a good dose of sex and violence inspired by the werewolf craze in the last decade. It became so successful that a sequel, Talulla Rising, was inevitable. Up close and personal, Duncan deciphers his metamorphosis as a writer and muses on issues that deal with morality and immortality. Not for the faint of heart.

With Love and Pasta: Book Lunch (131109K71) 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM | 9/11/2013 (Sat) Level 7, Kee Club | $300 (includes lunch) From China to Kyrgyzstan, and from Iran to Turkey to Rome, food writer and Beijing cookery school owner Jen Lin-Liu trots around the globe to immerse in the rich and disparate cultures of noodle and, along the way, discovers the truths about commitment, independence and love. Her footsteps were all traced in the new memoir, On the Noodle Road: With Love and Pasta. At this book lunch, Jen will set your stomach and mind rumbling, regaling with her culinary discoveries of special recipes and mind-opening encounters with women from different cultures. About On the Noodle Road

Monique Roffey: Please Sit Down, I Have Something Shocking to Say

“[An] ambitious adventure…numerous and rich literary meals.” – Chicago Tribune

(131102FU6) 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club | $130 Sex. The explosive little word. A word that makes us brave, true and alive. Trinidad-born Orange Prize shortlisted writer Monique Roffey wrote this startlingly honest and funny memoir that exposes her own vulnerability, examines the depths of the human heart and astounds in detail her exploits during her 40s. Roffey talks about how and why her last two novels were born from real life, history and magical realism. On The White Woman on the Green Bicycle “It breaks entirely new ground. It’s a major contribution to the New Wave of Caribbean writing.” – Olive Senior

Eat My Words (131110H1) 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM | 10/11/2013 (Sun) HOME, Causeway Bay | $150 To those who venture into their own kitchens only once in an azure moon, cookery books full of mouth-watering photographs, fascinating recipes and beautifully written vignettes are what National Geographic is to armchair explorers. But how do these books come out so delicious,interesting and effortless? Masters of the craft, Jen Lin-Liu and Linda Chia share their love affairs with the genre. HKILF 2013

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. ----------- Coriolanus III

Photo credit: Palani Mohan

CITYLIFE People. Stories. Word.

CITY LIFE Photo credit: Palani Mohan

Palani Mohan: The Age of Phone Photography (131102K72) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Level 7, Kee Club | $120

Making images using the tiny camera in your phone is a powerful tool which when used well is an important way to document our world. Phone photography isn't a fad and it’s here to stay, but how do you differentiate yourself amidst the flood of content on social media? Answering that question is the awardwinning photographer Palani Mohan, whose book, Vivid Hong Kong, a serendipitous collection of photos of daily life in Hong Kong taken on an iPhone, was made a finalist in Picture of the Year International.

Tales of Hong Kong’s Underbelly (131103AM5) 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM | 3/11/2013 (Sun) McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre | $120 Pathologist and former SCMP columnist, Dr Feng Chi-shun wrote a bestselling collection of 15 true tales that lures the readers into our city’s dark, ominous shadows. Losers and boozers, villains and their victims, sex and the city, these stories will send chills down your spine. Help spin the dark yarn is writer and former policeman Mike Smith, whose debut book, In the Shadow of the Noonday Sun, unveils the city’s seedy past under colonial rule..

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10:00 AM - 11:30 AM| 9/11/2013 (Sat) Underground, The Fringe Club| $ 80

Instead of phoning in, you now have a chance of chiming in to give a piece of your mind LIVE. Join our panel of celebrity journalists, commentators and special guests in this brand-new series to voice your say on the headline stories of the day. The sessions will be headlined by Angela Mackay, Paul Zimmerman, Hugh Chiverton, Frank Ching and more. Go to our website: festival.org.hk for the latest updates on panelists. Caller no. 45, you are on.

Price includes coffee and croissants.

The series is supported by Financial Times

Coffee & News Part 1 (131102FU1) 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 2/11/2013 (Sat) Upstairs, The Fringe Club | $ 80 Part 2 (131109FD1)

All in My Backyard: Explore the Pearl River Delta

The Help. Their Stories: Panel Discussion

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07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | 6/11/2013 (Wed) Underground, The Fringe Club | $120

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | 3/11/2013 (Sun) McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre| $60

The integration of Hong Kong and the cities of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a planning priority but the PRD area remains mysterious to many Hong Kong people. Now a new guidebook, Hong Kong’s Back Yard: A Guide to the Pearl River Delta aims to help us discover the diverse world on our doorstep. Join Hong Kong’s Back Yard author, Thomas Bird, and publisher Harvey Thomlinson, for a multimedia introduction to some of the hidden gems introduced by the book: from surfer beaches, to artists’ villages, Ming dynasty fortresses to ancestral temples, hiking trails to archipelagos of hidden islands, and much more.

It’s 10pm. The dishes are all washed and the baby is asleep. While you have your nose buried in your favourite novel or your eyes peeled to the TV screen, do you ever wonder what your domestic helper may be doing behind her door? Penning a tome may not cross your mind. But an increasing number of them are. Three Indonesian migrant writers, Susie, Yulia, Pandan, pen short stories and full-length novels about their lonely journeys far from home, working in strangers’ homes. Joining them on panel are Devi Novianti from Equal Opportunities Commission, Yuni Sze from the Indonesian magazine Apakabar, and Sam Aryadi, Vice Consul (Social-Cultural/ Information) of Indonesian Consulate General of Hong Kong. Together they trace the history of Indonesian migrant workers and uncover this hidden phenomenon.

Meanwhile the panelists will also encourage a discussion of how to strengthen not merely economic but also cultural ties between Hong Kong and the PRD. Talk with slides and video. A ‘must-attend’ event for history and travel buffs.

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WORD & STAGE

Luke Wright's Essex Lion (131108FD2) 08:30 PM - 09:30 PM | 8/11/2013 (Fri) Underground, The Fringe Club | $140

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“Leaves a choking gap in you when it finishes.”Winning raves like this by The Scotsman for his latest stage show, Essex Lion, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, red-hot British poet Luke Wright is clearly on a roll. In his HKILF debut, Wright invites you to step into his world of “romping satirical verse where posh plumbers, paunchy ex-rock stars and Lovejoy roam free.” Roarrr.

Unsavory Elements (131109AA1) 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM | 9/11/2013 (Sat) Agnes b. Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre | $120 Unsavory Elements is a collection of original and true stories commissioned from 28 renowned writers about their experiences living in China. It shocks with danger, endears with its tenderness, and uplifts with revitalizing tales. Join the author Tom Carter and his panel of esteemed writers, including Pete Spurrier, Nury Vittachi and Susie Gordon, for an ‘expat-tacular extravaganza’, followed by a musical performance by the multitalented publisher/contributing writer Graham Earnshaw. A sell-out event at the Shanghai Lit Fest this March. Book your tickets now.

Luke Wright: Your New Favorite Poet (131109AA2) 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 9/11/2013 (Sat) Agnes b. Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre | $140 Expect thigh-slapping acerbic wordplay and bawdy bar room ballads as Luke Wright introduces you to a cast of greedy politicians and boozy ne’erdo-wells. Meet Jeremy, the public schoolboy who draws penises on everything; kung-fu fighting French copper Jean-Claude Gendarme; and witness the world’s first b-movie. The second of Wright’s HKILF debut shows for those who just can’t get enough of his high-octane act.

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WORKSHOP AND SYMPOSIUM

Graeme Simsion When Every Word Counts A workshop for short story writing (131109K63) 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM| 9/11/2013 (Sat) Level 6, Kee Club| $200

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Shakespeare once quipped that “brevity is the soul of wit,” Louise Brooks’ commented “writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” Writing a short story with wit and inspiration is something award-winning author Graeme Simsion knows very well. He reveals his secrets to writing successful short fiction which will help hone your storytelling skills.

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Asia in Focus (131110CC1) 10/11/2013 (Sun) $180 (for 2 sessions) 10:30 AM - 01:00 PM M3090, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre,

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM M3017, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre,

City University of Hong Kong

(Panel Discussion 1)

(Panel Discussion 2)

Here or Where – Home or Abroad to Seek Writing Asylum

Hong Kong: An Island of Creativity?

Writers in Asia often have to grapple with the hows, wheres and whats of being a writer in this part of the world: where are the agents and publishers, how to make a decent living, what amount of effort it takes to reach an international readership. Local or international. Staying home or seeking better writing fortunes elsewhere.

What is it that gives island cities their unique vibrancy? Is Hong Kong surging ahead in the creative stakes or lagging behind its larger neighbours? Clusters of creative industries are often talked about as the engines of 21st century economies but what does that mean in practice? These are some of the issues examined in this recording of BBC’s radio programme The Forum hosted by Bridget Kendall. Come and hear local and global insights from writer Xu Xi, photographer Palani Mohan, Americanist Peter Swirski, and Hong Kong Arts Festival’s Executive Director Tisa Ho.

Uniting an international panel of published authors on stage to discuss and debate their career decisions which are impacted by cultural, economic, geographical and artistic reasons, the ultimate question of how to build a rewarding and rewarded writing career is studied and answered. Panellists: Andrew Lam (US/Vietnam), Jason Ng (Hong Kong), Alice Pung (Australia), Ma Jian (UK/China), Sharmistha Mohanty (India), Glen Duncan (UK) Moderator: Xu Xi (Hong Kong).

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SCHOOLS PROGRAMME The Schools Programme has been a popular component of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival from the very beginning. Every year we invite students to experience wonderful literary events that allow them to interact with, learn from and be inspired by acclaimed authors. Please note that these events are for school groups only as they take place during school hours.

Schools Programme Authors include:

Finding Your Own Voice in a Foreign Culture Speaker: Alice Pung

The Young Dickens Speaker: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

and

Luke Wright

Sarah Bexell

If you would like to book for your students or keep updated on the Schools Programme, please contact 2877 9770 / events@festival.org.hk. HKILF 2013

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FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

2/11 Saturday

(131102K72) (Citylife, p. 24) 4.00pm |Level 7, Kee Club

Fairy Tales Not For Kids: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (131102FU5) (Excite, p. 20) 4.30pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

Coffee & News (Part 1)

Good Sex in Fiction

(131102FU1) (Citylife, p. 25) 10.00am |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

(131102K64) (Excite, p. 20) 4.30pm |Level 6, Kee Club

The Firebirds: In Conversation with Evie Wyld

The Legend Returns. Jung Chang in Person

(131102FU2) (Discover, p. 14) 12.00pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

(131102CU1) (Feature, p. 7) 5.00pm |AC1 Lecture Theatre 10, City University of Hong Kong

From Ad to Fiction Antti Tuomainen on the Art of Persuasion (131102K61) (Focus, p. 12) 12.00pm |Level 6, Kee Club

How to Read the Air! Meet Dinaw Mengestu (131102FU3) (Discover, p. 14) 1.30pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

Motives for Crime: Christian Moerk and Duncan Jepson (131102K62) (Focus, p. 12) 1.30pm |Level 6, Kee Club

Korean Literature: Found in Translation: Kyung-sook Shin (131102K71) (Feature, p. 6) 2.00pm |Level 7, Kee Club

Sjón: Myths and Muses (131102FU4) (Focus, p. 10) 3.00pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

Palani Mohan on Phone Photography: Social Media Addicts Alert

Monique Roffey: Please Sit Down, I Have Something Shocking to Say (131102FU6) (Excite, p. 21)

6.00pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club Deaths in Cold Climate! Panel Discussion (131102FU7) (Focus, p. 11) 7.30pm |Upstairs, The Fringe Club

3/11 Sunday

Åke Edwardson: Winter, Murders, Gotheburg

The Day After the Awards: Round Table on What Awards and Nominations Do for, or to You

(131102K63) (Focus, p. 12) 3.00pm |Level 6, Kee Club

(131103AM1) (Discover, p. 15) 12.00pm |McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

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Stay tuned for more details on the Festival’s much anticipated Opening and Closing Parties (1 and 10 November) from our website: www.festival.org.hk

The Help. Their Stories. (131103AM2) (Citylife, p. 25) 2.00pm |McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Walk Home from Mongolia: Rob Lilwall (131103AM3) (Discover, p. 15) 4.00pm |McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Henning Juul and his Creator Thomas Enger: Angels and Demons (131103AM4) (Focus, p. 11) 5.30pm |McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

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Wednesday All in My Backyard: Explore the Pearl River Delta (131106FD1) (Citylife, p. 25) 7.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Tales of Hong Kong’s Underbelly

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(131103AM5) (Citylife, p. 24) 8.00pm |McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Monday

Christian Jungersen - You Disappear (131104FD1) (Focus, p. 10) 7.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

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Thursday

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Becoming Dickens (131107HG1) (Discover, p. 17) 6.30pm |Garden Room, Helena May

Guo Xiaolu: I am China (131107FD1) (Feature, p. 6) 7.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Sherlock Holmes and the Spirits (131107FD2) (Discover, p. 17) 8.30pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Tuesday

Sarah Bexell: Giant Pandas: Born Survivers (131105FD1) (Discover, p. 16) 7.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club HKILF 2013

8/11 Friday

Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project: From Print to Screen (131108FD1) (Feature, p. 7) 7.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Justin Hill â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Drink and Dream Teahouse: Author-led Book Club Meeting (131108FV1) (Discover, p. 16) 7.00pm |Vault, The Fringe Club

The Last Werewolf: Literary Fiction at its Feral, Furry Best

The Quest - How Story Transforms Us (a Seminar) (131109K72) (Workshop, p. 28) 3.30pm |Level 7, Kee Club

Five Movements in Praise: Sharmistha Mohanty (131109FD4) (Discover, p. 15)

3.30pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Graeme Simsion - When Every Word Counts - A workshop for short story writing (131109K63) (Workshop, p. 28) 4.00pm |Level 6, Kee Club

Make it Big in Rising Asia: A Matter of Good Fortune? (131109FD5) (Feature, p. 8) 4.30pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Unsavory Elements (131109AA1) (Word and Stage, p. 27) 7.30pm |Agnes b. Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre

(131108FV2) (Excite, p. 21) 8.30pm |Vault, The Fringe Club

Pride Lit: Read Out and Speak Up

Luke Wright's Essex Lion

(131109FD6) (Discover, p. 18) 8.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

(131108FD2) (Word and Stage, p. 26) 8.30pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

Luke Wright: Your New Favorite Poet

9/11 10/11 (131109AA2) (Word and Stage, p. 27) 9.30pm |Agnes b. Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Saturday

Coffee & News (Part 2)

(131109FD1) (Citylife, p. 25) 10.00am |Underground, The Fringe Club

Sunday

Symposium: Asia in Focus Ma Jian: The Dark Road - China's One Child Policy

(131109K71) (Excite, p. 21) 12.30pm |Level 7, Kee Club

(131110CC1) (Workshop, p. 29) (Part 1) 10.30am |M3090, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong (Part 2) 02.00pm |M3017, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Andrew Lam and Xu Xi: Our Private Diasporas

Eat My Words

(131109K62) (Discover, p. 14) 2.00pm |Level 6, Kee Club

(131110H1) (Excite, p. 21) 2.00pm |HOME, Causeway Bay

(131109FD2) (Feature, p. 8) 12.00pm |Underground, The Fringe Club

With Love and Pasta: Book Lunch

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Sarah Bexell has been engaged in wildlife conservation, conservation education and humane education for 20 years. Currently, she is the Conservation Specialist at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, China and a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct with the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver, USA. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating educational interventions to facilitate the human-animal bond and connection to nature to promote animal welfare, healthy child development and wildlife and nature preservation. She has worked in China for over a decade to build capacity of conservation and humane education professionals working for schools, zoological institutions and NGOs.

Thomas Bird is a British freelance writer based in Shenzhen, South China. He is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he obtained a masters degree in Chinese Studies. He has been resident in China for over eight years, seven of which have been spent in the Pearl River Delta region. Thomas’s articles can be seen in such publications as Post Magazine in Hong Kong, City

Weekend Beijing and Shanghai, Selvedge in London, etc. He is the principle-contributing writer to the guidebook Hong Kong’s Backyard and is presently working on his first book. When he’s not writing, Thomas can be seen performing with his band The Evil Deeds.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of ‘20 Under 40’ fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design.

Linda Chia was born in Sydney to Cantonese parents, and spent her young adult life living in an Italian community, which redefined her skill set in the kitchen. She today works on agricultural projects with the

objective to grow clean and organic food in a sustainable way, and her passion for food and interest in nutrition has led to her promoting the local and regional foods of Yunnan. She is co-author, with Annabel Jackson, of The Yunnan Cookbook (2013).

including the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian , has acted as historical consultant on recent BBC productions of Jane Eyre , Emma and Great Expectations , and is one of the judges of the 2013 Man Booker Prize. He lives in Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College and a lecturer in English literature.

crime fiction, short stories, plays and novels for children and young adults. His fiction has been awarded numerous prizes and Edwardson is a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy prize for Best Novel. Seven of his crime novels featuring Chief Inspector Erik Winter have been translated into English, the latest, Room No. 10, in March 2013. In July 2013 he published the young adult novel Samurai Summer in English. Edwardson is currently traveling round Southeast and East Asia, researching a new novel, Bungalow. In his free time he enjoys cooking, training, reading and eating dim sum. (Photo credit: Thomas Andersen)

Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans (1991, which the Asian Wall Street Journal called the most read book about China), and Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time Magazine as ‘an atom bomb of a book’. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland China where they are both banned. She was born in China in 1952, and came to Britain in 1978. She lives in London. (Photo credit: Jon Halliday)

Glen Duncan is an Anglo-Indian novelist born in England in 1965. He studied Philosopy and Literature at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter, then spent several years working as a bookseller and writing in his spare time. His first novel, Hope, was published in the UK and the US in 1996, and has been followed by nine other titles, including I, Lucifer; A Day and a Night and a Day and the international bestsellers, The Last Werewolf and Talulla Rising. His latest book, By Blood We Live, will be published in February 2014. He lives in London.

Robert D o ugl as -Fai rh ur s t is a critic and biographer whose last book, Becoming Dickens , won the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize. He writes regularly for publications

Åke Edwardson is a Swedish writer of 22 books which have sold more than six million copies so far and been translated into 27 languages. He writes novels,

Thomas Enger, born in 1973, is now one of the most prominent crime fiction writers in Norway. He has a degree in journalism and has worked at the Norwegian online newspaper  Nettavisen for nine years. Enger's first book, Skinndød, was published in 2010. It is the first book in a series of at least six featuring crime journalist Henning Juul. It has been an amazing bestselling novel in his home country in 2010 and since then it has been translated into different languages. The second i n s t a ll m e n t ,   Fantomsmerte , was released in the fall of 2011;Blodtåke, the third book, was released in 2012. He now lives in Oslo with his wife and two children. (Photo credit: Camilla Stephan) HKILF 2013

Fe n g Ch i -s h un is a naturalized US citizen, but considers Hong Kong — where he grew up and attended medical school — his home. His formative y e a r s w e re s p e n t i n Kowloon's Diamond Hill district, where people were poor but life was rich. Trained as a pathologist, he has published close to 100 scientific articles on his medical research. Feeling deprived as a child, he is making up for lost time by living life to its fullest. He i s t h e a u t h o r o f Diamond Hill ( 2 0 0 9 ) a n d Hong Kong Noir ( 2 0 1 2 ) .

Xiaolu Guo is a London-based novelist and filmmaker. Her novels include Orange Fiction Prize nominated A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers and 20 Fragments of A Ravenous Youth. She also directed award winning feature film, She, A Chinese and UFO In Her Eyes.

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Hill, Internationally acclaimed novelist, worked for seven years as a volunteer with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in rural China and Africa. His three novels, which cover contemporary China, the Tang Dynasty and the Battle of Hastings, have all been nominated for the Booker Prize. The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a Betty Trask Award, was a Washington Post Book of the Year, and was banned by the government in China. Shieldwall was a Sunday Times as Book of the Year. Passing Under Heaven was the reimagined life of poetess, Yu Xuanji, and has just been translated into Chinese. He is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. (Photo credit: Rouge)

Duncan Jepson is an awardwinning filmmaker who has directed and produced two documentary features and is currently finishing his third,  A Devil’s Gift . In 2009 Duncan directed a mixed-media kung fu exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre for the city’s first kung fu festival. He is a founder and managing editor of the Asia Literary Review and was previously editor of the award winning WestEast Magazine which, amongst others, won Best Magazine by the Society of Publishers in Asia 2003. Duncan is also a corporate lawyer.

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He worked as a watch-mender’s apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist. At the age of thirty, he left his job and traveled for three years across China. In 1987 he completed Stick Out Your Tongue , which prompted the Chinese government to ban his future work. Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987 as a dissident, but he continued to travel to China, and he supported the pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. After the handover of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London, where he now lives.

PBS documentary and a recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Pen Open Book Award and a Society of Professional Journalists Award, Lam's essays and short stories are widely taught and anthologized in the US. He is currently working on a second book of short stories and a novel.

Douglas Kerr is a professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, and Chairman of the Arts Faculty Board. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Warwick, came to Hong Kong in 1979, and has been teaching literary studies here ever since. His scholarly work as a literary historian has been in the areas of modern, modernist, and lateVictorian writing. He chairs the committee that oversees the Hong Kong University Press.

Christian Jungersen is a multiple award-winning and international bestselling novelist. His novel The Exception has been sold for publication in 20 countries. It was Editor’s Choice in the New York Times and on Amazon.com and was nominated for prizes in United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Sweden. His latest novel, You Disappear , is already a major bestseller in Scandinavia. It will be published in English in January 2014. (Photo credit: Iben Mondrup)

Andrew Lam is an editor at New America Media and regular contributor to The Huffington Post , South China Morning Post and Shanghai Daily. He is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, and Birds of Paradise Lost. The subject of a

Jen Lin-Liu is the author of On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta and Serve the People: A StirFried Journey Through China . She has written about food, culture and travel for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure . She is also the founder of Black Sesame Kitchen, a Beijing cooking school and private dining space. Born in Chicago and raised in Southern California, she graduated from Columbia University before moving to China in 2000. She currently lives in Chengdu, China.

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Rob Lilwall, originally from London, studied geography at Edinburgh University and did his teacher training at Oxford University. At the age of 27, upon completing Cycling Home From Siberia, Rob then lived in London for two and a half years, lecturing extensively, writing his first book, and making a six-part TV series with National Geographic Channel about his bicycle expedition. He also carried out two shorter expeditions, this time on foot: walking a lap of the M25, and walking through Israel and the West Bank. His most recent expedition, the 5,000 km Walking Home From Mongolia expedition (on foot through Mongolia and China to Hong Kong), was completed in mid 2012.

Dinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, How to Read the Air and the forthcoming, All our Names. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Award, the Guardian First Book Prize and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages. He is the Lannan Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and splits his time between New York and Paris.

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Palani Mohan ’s work has been widely published by many of the world’s leading publications including National Geographic, Stern, Geo, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek. He has published four photographic books and is working on the next, on Mongolia. He has been recognised with awards from the World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association, American Photo, PX3, CHIPP, Sony International and Communication Arts. He is currently based in Hong Kong where he lives with his wife and two children.

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction: Book One, New Life, and the recent Five Movements in Praise. She has also translated a selection of Tagore's fiction, Broken Nest and Other Stories. Mohanty is founder-editor of the online journal Almost Island and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues, an annual international writers’ meet held in New Delhi. Mohanty has been awarded fellowships from the Indian Ministry of Culture, as well as from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. She is currently in the International Faculty of the Creative Writing Programme, City University of Hong Kong.

Christian Moerk was born in Copenhagen in 1966. After getting his master's degree at Columbia Journalism in New York, he worked as a journalist at the New York Times and a film producer at Warner Bros. He has written six suspense novels, including Darling Jim, which was translated into Mandarin and was sold in over 20 countries. His newest novel, The Despised, is a drama about a family collaborating with the Nazis during World War Two.

Alice Pung is an awardwinning Melbourne writer and lawyer. Her first book, Unpolished Gem, won the 2007 Australian Newcomer of the Year award in the Australian Book Industry Awards and was shortlisted for several awards including the Age Book of the Year 2007. Her second book Her Father's Daughter won the 2012 Western Australia Premier's Literary Award for best Nonfiction Book.

Monique Rof fe y, bor n in P or t of Sp a in , Tr inidad, in 19 65 to a B r itish f ath er a nd mother of mixe d Mediterranean origins, w a s e duc ate d at St A ndr e w ’s School in Maraval, Tr inidad, a nd then in the UK at St Maur ’s C onvent , a nd St Geor ge's College, Weybridge. She studied E nglish a nd F il m St udie s at the Univer sit y of E a s t A nglia a nd l ater c omple te d a n M A a nd P hD in C r e ative Wr iting at L a nc a s ter Univer sit y. B e t we en 20 02 a nd 20 0 6 she w a s a C ent r e Dir e c tor for the A r von

Foundation a nd l ater h eld th r e e po s t s f or th e Roy al L iter a r y Fund (20 0 6 –12). Rof f e y h a s t aught c r e ative w r iting f or E nglish P E N, th e A r von Foundation , th e Wr iter s’ L ab, Sk y r o s a nd on th e M A in C r e ative a nd L if e Wr iting at Golds mith s , Univer sit y of L ondon .

Kyung-sook

Shin made her literary debut in 1985 by winning the Munye Joongang New Author Prize with the novella Winter’s Fable. Since then, Shin has published numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, becoming one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. Shin has been honored with the Dong-in Literature Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and is a Mark of Respect award winner in 2012 as well as France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu and Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. She is the first Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize for Please Look After Mom, which will be published in thirty-three countries. Shin’s works have featured a certain high elegance of sentiment and distinctly original style that have significantly raised the status of contemporary Korean literature worldwide.

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Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant who decided in 2007 to become a writer. Since then he has written and produced numerous short films, short stories and plays. The Rosie Project, his first novel, is an international best-seller with rights sold in 40 countries. Sony Pictures have optioned the film rights, with Graeme to write the screenplay. (Photo credit: James Penlidis)

Born in New York in 1953, Mike Smith spent his childhood in India and UK. He left school to join the Hong Kong Police Force at 19, and later built a successful career in financial services operation and property development. In the Shadow of the Noonday Gun, Smith’s first book which came out in January 2013, takes an insider’s look at life, crime and the backrooms of big business from the final decades of colonial Hong Kong to the current day.

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S j ó n , born in 1962 in Iceland, began his literary career at the tender age of 15 with his first poetry collection Visions. In the early 80s he founded the neosurrealist group Medúsa and soon acquired a high profile on the Reykjavík culture scene. His novels include The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue Fox, which was awarded the prestigious Nordic Council’s Literary Prize. Alongside his work as writer Sjón has taken part in a variety of art shows and music events, and in 2001 his long-time collaboration with the Icelandic singer Björk led to an Oscar nomination for his lyrics for the Lars von Trier movie Dancer in the Dark.

Finnish Antti Tuomainen, born in 1971, was an award-winning copywriter in the advertising industry before he made his literary debut as a suspense author in 2007 with A Killer, I Wish. The critically acclaimed My Brother's Keeper was published two years later. In 2011 Tuomainen's third novel, The Healer, was awarded the Clue Award for 'Best Finnish Crime Novel 2011'. Emerged as a bright new star in the field of crime and noir, Tuomainen is one of the first to challenge the Scandinavian crime genre formula. His fourth novel Dark As My Heart was published in Finland in June 2013 with glowing reviews. Antti Tuomainen lives in Helsinki and is currently working on his fifth novel. (Photo credit: Jorgen Ringstrand)

Luke Wright has been described as "one of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation" by The Independent. He writes bawdy bar room ballads about Westminster rogues and small town tragedies. He is a regular on BBC Radio 4 and the author of seven one man poetry shows, touring with them all over the world. His latest is Essex Lion. His debut collection, Mondeo Man was published in 2013 to great acclaim. The Huffington Post gave it five stars, calling it "a riot of cheek, giggles, boobs, tears and Facebook." Luke co-curates The Spoken Word Arena at Latitude, one of the country's biggest poetry events, and is the poetry editor at boutique publishing house Nasty Little Press.

Evie Wyld runs Review, a small independent bookshop in Peckham, south London. Her first novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 she was listed as one of the Culture Show’s Best New British Novelists. She was also short listed for the Orange Prize for New Writers and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is included in Granta’s list of Best of Young British Novelists 2013. Her second novel All the Birds, Singing came out in June 2013, published by Jonathan Cape, and will be out in 2014 by Pantheon in the US.

XU XI 許素細 is a ChineseIndonesian native of Hong Kong and the author of nine books of fiction and essays. The most recent titles are Access Thirteen Tales (2011), the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010), a finalist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize and an essay collection, Evanescent Isles (2008). She is also editor or co-editor of three anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English; a fourth anthology of new Hong Kong short stories, The Queen of Statue Square & Other Stories, co-edited with Marshall Moore, is forthcoming from CCC Press, Nottingham, UK. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at City University of Hong Kong’s Department of English, where she established and directs Asia’s first international low-residency MFA in creative writing.

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Sam Aryadi is the Vice Consul

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(Social -Cultural/ Information) of Indonesian Consulate General of Hong Kong and has been based in Hong Kong for 7 years. He got a master degree in International Politics at University of Melbourne. He has been supportive and also actively involved in the culture of Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong.

Pandan Arum is the Founder of Pandu magazine. She also works as a contributor for Posmo Exclusive & Iqro magazine. She is interested in mental healing and motivational stories.

Tom Carter , An inveterate vagrant who flirts with pictures and words, spent 2 straight years backpacking a groundbreaking 35,000 miles across all 33 Chinese provinces, and was named “one of China's foremost explorers” by The World of Chinese magazine. His first book CHINA: Portrait of a People has been hailed as “the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author.” He is also the editor of Unsavory Elements, an anthology book about foreign expats in China. Tom was born and raised in the City of San Francisco but has called China home since 2004.

Hugh Chiverton is currently the Head of RTHK's Radio 3. He has produced documentaries on a range of topics including Confucius, the music of the French Revolution, and fast food. He is a host of RTHK’s current affairs discussion programme, 'Backchat', which combines expert views and comment from listeners. In his twenty years at the station he has interviewed many prominent authors including Nobel Laureates Doris Lessing and Seamus Heaney.

Nigel Collett is currently the Managing Director of The Gurkha International Group. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British forces in Hong Kong for 20 years before returning to England to write the biography The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer. He moved back to Hong Kong and has been moderating at the festival ever since. His new book on Leslie Cheung will soon be released, and he is working on an account of the novelist E.M. Forster in India.

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Kelly Falconer is the founder of the Asia Literary Agency, which represents Asian writers, experts on Asia and writers living in the region. She has contributed to the Financial Times, the Times Literary Suppliment and Spectator magazine, and has worked as an editor in London for publishering firm including Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Granta magazine. In 2012, she was the literary editor of the Hong Kong-based Asia Literary Review.

Elizabeth Ho (Liz Ho) is Associate

Suzanne

Gendron is the executive director of Ocean Park Corporation, Zoological Operations & Education Division. She is responsible for all aspects of the Park’s live animal collection, including acquisition and medical and husbandry care of dolphins, sea lions, sharks, birds, and butterflies. She oversees the Park’s various e ducational program mes, ensuring that education and conservation commitments are fulfilled. Suzanne is also the Foundation Director of Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong (OPCFHK) which aims to protect endangered animals and their habitats in Asian region.

Evan Fallenberg is the author of two novels – Light Fell and When We Danced on Water – and an acclaimed translator of modern Hebrew fiction and screenplays. He has won or been shortlisted for the following prize but not limited to the National Jewish Book Award; the PEN Translation Prize; and the Times Literary Supplement Prize for Translation of Hebrew Literature. The director of fiction and literary translation at Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, he is also an instructor in the lowresidency MFA program in creative writing at City University of Hong Kong and a recent recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Susie Gordon is a Shanghaibased writer and journalist, born in the north west of England in 1981. She moved to China in 2008, and writes for many of the city's English language publications, specialising in business and culture. She has published three guidebooks about Shanghai and Beijing, and is currently working on a novel.

Professor of English at Lingnan University where she teaches global literatures in English. She is the author of Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire and has published articles on postcolonial fiction, contemporary literature and graphic novels. She serves as Consultant Editor of the online journal, Neo-Victorian Studies. Brought up in Hong Kong, Liz returned home after a long absence to contribute to the exciting changes in the territory’s educational system.

Tisa Ho, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Having grown up in Hong Kong, she relocated to Singapore in 1984, where her arts portfolios cover policy and infrastructure development, including brief development for Singapore’s Esplanade, marketing and curatorial responsibilities for the 1988 and 1990 Singapore Arts Festivals, and managing the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (as General Manager) between 1991 and 1999. During her tenure at the Hong Kong Arts Festival since 2006, the Festival has presented large scale international productions such as Zingaro’s Battuta from France and Power Plant from the UK; embarked on programmes of exploring new, unconventional venues; and produced and presented new local works.

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Phillip Kim is a Korean American

is a prolific broadcast and print journalist. She presents RTHK Radio 3's award-winning storytelling programme, Asian Threads. She also produces Money For Nothing, a daily live radio show that focuses on business and finance. Reenita is the author of Forever Young - Unleashing the Magic of Ayurveda, published by Pan Macmillan India; Inner Beauty, published by Chronicle Books; and Ayurveda,The Ancient Medicine of India, published by Mandala press. Her Young Adult novels, Operation Mom and Goopeater are both due out in early 2014.

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Hong Kong-based banker turned novelist. His debut novel, Nothing Gained, a financial thriller that draws on his twenty five years of experience as an investment banker in Asia, was published by Penguin Book Group in March 2013. He is currently working on his second novel. He has lived in Hong Kong for over twenty years and contributed short stories to anthologies published by the Hong Kong Writers Circle. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he has a wife and daughter.

Akin Jeje is a Canadian poet in Hong Kong. His works are featured in Canada's Carousel and Filling Station and Hong Kong's FiftyFifty anthology. His first collection, Smoked Pearl, was published in 2010. He was most recently featured in A poem for Jack Layton, written by 14 Canadian poets and published in Canada's The Globe and Mail in 2011. Jeje is a regular performer at Hong Kong’s monthly Poetry OutLoud event and is the MC for Hong Kong’s weekly Peel Street Poets gathering.

Devi Novianti is a Corporate Communications Officer at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). Prior to joining the EOC, she worked as the Manager of Christian Action’s Domestic Helpers and Migrant Workers Programme and Chungking Mansions Service Centre, a centre for refugees and asylum seekers. In 2006, she received a commendation from the Chief Executive of HongKong SAR, Mr. Donald Tsang for her work in serving the city’s ethnic minority communities.

Marysia

Juszczakiewicz

is the founder and owner of Hong Kong based Peony Literary Agency. Marysia has extensive experience of publishing. She has successfully sold many works. Peony was the first agent to represent the recent Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan and sold English language rights for his novel Sandalwood Murders. (Photo Credit: Roger Lee Productions Ltd.)

Angela Mackay is the Managing Director of Financial Times, Asia Pacific. She leads the FT’s Asia Pacific commercial operations in Hong Kong where she has an extensive network of personal and professional contacts. She is a former senior correspondent for the FT and a keen supporter of the arts and literary events in Hong Kong. She is currently on the board of Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

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Jason Y. Ng was born in Hong

Bridget Kendall is a BBC diplomatic correspondent, covering major international developments. She is also host of The Forum, the flagship ideas program for the BBC World Service. Her awards include the James Cameron Award for distinguished journalism and an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II. She is an honorary fellow of the University of Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Saint Antonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College. She is a trustee of Asia House and a visiting professor of journalism at Lincoln University.

Kong and is a globetrotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe and North America before settling in his birthplace seven years ago. Jason is the author of Hong Kong State of Mind and [No City for Slow Men]. He is also a resident blogger for The South China Morning Post. His social commentary blog As I See It and lifestyle column The Real Deal have attracted a cult following on blogsphere.

Yulia Jafar Purwanto is a short story writer and script writer. Her short stories have been published in Indonesia's biggest tabloid, Nyata. She speaks four languages Javanese, English, Indonesian and Cantonese.

Marshall Moore is the author of five books, most recently the novel Bitter Orange and the shortfiction collection The Infernal Republic. He has also written and published dozens of short stories, book reviews, and essays. He is the founder and publisher at Typhoon Media Ltd, an independent press in Hong Kong.

Born in London, Pete Spurrier arrived in Hong Kong in 1993 after a two-year overland trip which included following the Silk Road from Turkey to China. Expecting to stay in the thenHKILF 2013

colony only a month, he soon found himself beguiled by Hong Kong's cosmopolitan character and wild scenery, and has been based in the city ever since. He is the author of the best-selling Serious Hiker's Guide to Hong Kong and Heritage Hiker's Guide to Hong Kong, both published by Form Asia. Pete is also the founder of Blacksmith Books, a leading independent publishing house, which focuses on Asian-themed titles.

Peter Swirski, featured in Canadian Who's Who, is Honorary Professor of American Studies at Jinan University, China, Academic Advisor in American Studies for the Guangdong International Studies Center, China, and member of the executive councils of the International American Studies Association (IASA) and the Dimic Research Institute for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. His research spans modern and contemporary American literature, history, and culture, including popular culture and film. He is recognized internationally as the leading Stanislaw Lem scholar. Recently he has appeared on the BBC Forum before audiences of 200 million worldwide.

Yuni Sze is the managing director of tabloid Apakabar, a free Hong Kong based Indonesian biweekly magazine, which aims to connect Indonesian migrant workers. She has witnessed the history of Indonesian migrant literary movement in Hong Kong.

Harvey Thomlinson is the founder of Hong Kong and UK-based press Make-Do Studios, which in the last three years has won acclaim for publishing fiction by leading Asian writers such as Murong Xuecun, Chen Xiwo, and Rosmini Shaari. Harvey’s translation of Murong Xuecun’s novel Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu was long-listed for the 2009 Man Asia Literary prize. His experimental novel The Strike was described by the website Experimental Writing as “one of the most important developments in innovative fiction!”

a non-profit organization devoted to promoting livable density, which aims to increase public awareness and to improve Hong Kong’s collective ability to plan and deliver a sustainable and a ‘beautiful’ city. Paul has a Masters in Social Science (Economics) from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and a Masters of Arts (Transport Policy and Planning) from The University of Hong Kong.

Susie Utomo has been working in Hong Kong for seven years. She has founded a magazine CahayaQu in August 2012, which aims to spread Muslim wisdom and teachings. She also works as a contributor for Posmo Exsclusive magazine and tabloid Apakabar, which is a free Hong Kong based biweekly magazine in Indonesian.

Netherlands, made Hong Kong his home in 1984. He is an elected District Councillor representing Pokfulam, and CEO of Designing Hong Kong,

from the City University of Hong Kong and is a finalist of New Letters Poetry Award and Wabash Prize for Poetry, both in 2012. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Asymptote, The Common, cream city review, The Journal, World Literature Today, among others. His next poetry collection will be published by Kaya Press in Fall 2014. He is an editorial member of Mead: Magazine of Literature and Libations and Drunken Boat. Corgis are his favorite human breed.

Graham Earnshaw was born

Nury “MR JAM” Vittachi, one of

Paul Zimmerman, born in the

Nicholas YB Wong holds an MFA

Asia’s most widely published authors, is chairman of Asia-Pacific’s biggest association of writers. His syndicated newspaper column and his website MrJam.org together reach more than a million regular readers. His latest book, The Curious Diary of Mr Jam, is about the Asian sense of humour. He also has a multi-volume deal with Scholastic for a children’s book series.

in England and has lived most of his adult life in China as a journalist, businessman and publisher. He speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, and his translation of the Jin Yong kung fu novel The Book and The Sword into English was published by Oxford University Press. He is also the author of Life and Death of a Dotcom in China, Tales of Old Shanghai, and The Great Walk of China, a travelogue detailing his on-going journey by foot across the country.

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Venues To provide maximum convenience for our festival-goers, this year the vast majority of the festival events will be housed in The Fringe Club and Kee Club, both within walking distance from each other in the heart of Central. Join our Sunday events at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Wan Chai, where plentiful F & B options await you between events. The Helena May, the unique heritage building on Garden Road, and Home, a quaint, bistrostyled restaurant tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Causeway Bay, are homes to two special literary and food events. On the Kowloon Side, the leafy campus of the City University of HK welcomes Jung Chang and our 10 Nov Symposium! The Festival door is now open. Welcome to our world of literary delights!

The Fringe Club 2 Lower Albert Road, Central

Hong Kong Arts Centre 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Kee Club 32 Wellington Street, Central

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong M3090, M3017, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong

Lecture Theatre 18, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon

Home G/F, 11 Caroline Hill Road, Causeway Bay

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Collector ($5,000 – $9,999) Martin Matsui, Carey Cheung, Neville Sarony QC, Jeff Greenstein, Elaine Ho, Sue Sandberg

Bookworm ($2,500 – $4,999) Jennie and Ivor Orchard, Frank Ching, Caroline Chong, Carolyn Hopkins, Kate and John Budge, Anne Charron, Theresa Hudzinski, The Snow Family, Peter and Nancy Thompson

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Special Thanks Special Thanks go to the following individuals and organizations for their kind assistance for this year's Festival (in alphabetical order): Abi Howell, Carolyn Bickerton, Paul Kenny, David Parrish, Emily Chan (Swindon Books), Forum Lingkar Pena, Hong Kong IEd Internship Programme, Jennie Orchard, Matt Steele, Nigel Collett. Pete Spurrier, Vanessa Bloor, Winnie Chau, our media friends for the treasured coverage and all volunteers: Madeleine Matsui, Emilio Maolana, Valerie Ho, Beth Thompson, Mally Stewart, Lesley Cheung and many others. For donation and sponsorship matters, please contact Paul Tam at 2877 9797 or paul.tam@festival.org.hk HKILF 2013

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF), founded in 2001, is an annual event held over 10 days in the Fall, featuring established and emerging writers from around the world in an extensive programme that includes discussions, literary lunches and dinners, workshops, lectures, debates, book signings and readings. The stellar list of past HKILF authors includes literary illuminati such as Seamus Heaney, Louis de Bernières, Colm Tóibín, Jung Chang and Yann Martel. HKILF is organized and coordinated by Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited, a non-profit, charitable literary arts organization which also manages the annual Young Readers Festival (YRF).

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Advisors

Thomas Crampton Asia-Pacific director of Social Media, Ogilvy & Mather

Martin Alexander Poet and short story writer; Editor of the Asia Literary Review

Tisa Ho Executive Director, Hong Kong Arts Festival

Cathy Chon (Public Relations) Founder & Managing Director, CatchOn & Company Ltd.

Gabriela Kennedy (Co-chair) Partner, Hogan Lovells

Justin Hill English novelist and poet; Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong;

Angela Mackay Managing Director of Financial Times, Asia Pacific David Nunan Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, University of Hong Kong Page Richards Associate Professor at The School of English, The University of Hong Kong Christine Van (Co-chair) Director, Kelly International Corporation Limited

Janice Y.K. Lee Author Jennifer Zhu Scott Managing Partner, Establish Asia XU XI 許素細 Writer-in-Residence, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong Professor Maureen Sabine Department of History, University of Hong Kong

Staff Paul Tam General Manager Louise Law Festival Co-ordinator Alice Lam Account and Administrative Officer

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Non-fiction with Chinese characteristics

“Kudos should again go to Blacksmith, a small Hong Kong publisher building a reputation for unearthing stories and writers who would otherwise never see the light of day.” – Asia Times

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