Rthk2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival
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RTHK Radio 3 was the Radio Partner for "2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival", and interviewed many of the authors who took part. Here are full versions, unheard on the radio, of those interviews and a discussion for you to download and listen to at your leisure.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 18 - Susanna Hoe
18/04/2007 Duración: 20minBorn in England, Hoe has spent half her life abroad in Kenya, Switzerland, Italy and Papua New Guinea, writing about women's history, and working for women's rights groups .
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 19 - Namu Yang
18/04/2007 Duración: 28minNamu Yang is from the Moso ethnic group, a matriarchal society near Burma. She has written many books in China which blend traditional life among the Moso with advice for women on empowerment.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 16 - Julia Donaldson
12/04/2007 Duración: 17minFor decades she wrote songs to order for British children's TV but one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", was turned into a book and thus her began her career as a children's author.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 17 - Guo Xiaolu
12/04/2007 Duración: 26minWas born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at Beijing Film Academy and has worked as a screenwriter and film teacher as well as writing many books in Chinese.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 01 - Kiran Desai
28/03/2007 Duración: 26min2006 Booker Prize winner and the youngest women to have won the accolade. Her winning book "The Inheritance of Loss" took seven years to write.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 02 - Morris Gleitzman
28/03/2007 Duración: 20minGleitzman started his writing career as a script writer for "The Norman Gunst Show". He has written over twenty books and is also a well known Australian columnist.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 03 - Madhur Jaffrey
28/03/2007 Duración: 24minBest selling cookery writer and an award-winning actress. Her book "Taste of the Far East" was voted Best International Cookbook and Book of the Year (1993) .
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 04 - Andrew O' Connor
28/03/2007 Duración: 13minThe chance to teach English in Japan was the inspiration needed to help Andrew O' Connor pen his first novel "Tuvalu", which won the 2005 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 05 - Lynne O' Donnell
28/03/2007 Duración: 22minThe chance to teach English in Japan was the inspiration needed to help Andrew O' Connor pen his first novel "Tuvalu", which won the 2005 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 06 - Jan Morris
28/03/2007 Duración: 09minJan Morris is a travel-writer and historian, famed in particular for her portraits of cities such as Venice, Trieste and Hong Kong.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 07 - Peter Moss
28/03/2007 Duración: 15minBorn in India, Peter Moss has spent most of his life in Asia and worked in Hong Kong. He talked about the end of Empire and the future of Hong Kong.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 08 - John Ralston Saul
28/03/2007 Duración: 32minAuthor, essayist and philosopher, whose first novel "Birds of Prey" was an international Bestseller. Pankaj Mishra is a novelist, travel writer and writer for a variety of international publications. "The Collapse of Globalism" is Saul's latest work an...
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 09 - Claire Scobie
28/03/2007 Duración: 23minA journalist who has just published her first travel writing book "Last Seen in Lhasa", which came about after she struck up a special relationship with a wandering Tibetan monk.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 10 - Amy Tan
28/03/2007 Duración: 26minAuthor of "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife". She believes her grandmother's ghost has played a vital role in her success.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 11 - Simon Winchester
28/03/2007 Duración: 21minThe foreign-correspondent turned author has had great success with a string of non-fiction books, including "The Professor and the Madman", "Krakatoa".
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 12 - Xu Xi
28/03/2007 Duración: 15minA Hong Kong native who has written short stories and essays as well as six novels, the most recent being "Overleaf Hong Kong".
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 13 - A Book Club Tea – part 1
28/03/2007 Duración: 29minRTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 14 - A Book Club Tea – part 2
28/03/2007 Duración: 24minRTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.
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RTHK:2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival: 15 - Asia Society Presents Exotic Places
28/03/2007 Duración: 30minTahitian Celestine Vaite writes powerfully of her home country in her novels "Breadfruit and Frangipani". Sri Lankan born Romesh Gunesekera, who lived in the Philippines before settling in England and writes colourfully about these countries had his bo...