RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008: Marina Benjamin
RTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
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The 2008 Literary Festival drew some of the biggest names in modern writing to Hong Kong for an intense programme of talks, workshops, readings and literary lunches.
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Professor Edward Larson is a Pulitzer-prizewinning historian and legal scholar. He writes mostly about issues of law, science and medicine from a hist...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Dava Sobel is a popular science writer who came to prominence with ‘Longitude’ in 1995, which told the story of John Harrison’s search for a more perf...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Zia Sardar is a Muslim scholar with an interest in science, culture and the politics of the modern world. He is the author of many books, including ‘P...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Ann Enright is an Irish writer whose first novel ‘The Wig My Father Wore’ was published in 1995. Her 2007 work ‘The Gathering’ won wide praise (‘Reckl...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Yan Geling and Tan Twan Eng talk with Sarah Passmore about the racial tensions in their historic stories. ‘The Lost Daughter of Happiness’ is a heartb...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
In ‘Ishq and Mushq’ Priya Basil’s main character stifles unwanted memories that torment her and Gail Jones’ novel ‘Sorry’ laments lost opportunities. ...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Detecting in Bejing, murder in San Francisco; British crime writer Catherine Sampson and the Chinese-born, award-winning novelist Yan Geling discuss w...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Ian McEwan has published numerous award-winning novels and short story collections. He gained notoriety early in his career for his shocking and often...
RTHK: The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008
Dr. Kathy Reichs is an internationally recognized forensic anthropologist and the bestselling award-winning author of numerous crime novels, including...