The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008: Marina Benjamin

RTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2008

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 historical perspective, with a particular interest in the controversies surrounding Evolution. His most re...

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 perfect clock. ‘Galileo’s Daughter’ in 2000 was subtitled ‘A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love...

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 ‘Postmodernism and the Other’; ‘Introducing Muhammad ‘, ‘Why Do People Hate America?’, and ‘Desperately ...

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 (‘Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright’s fiction is jet dark — ...

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 heartbreaking account of a Chinese prostitute’s life during San Francisco’s Gold Rush era. ‘The Gift of Rain...

In ‘Ishq and Mushq’ Priya Basil’s main character stifles unwanted memories that torment her and Gail Jones’ novel ‘Sorry’ laments lost opportunities. Sarah Passmore speaks to them about delving into the burden of the past.

Detecting in Bejing, murder in San Francisco; British crime writer Catherine Sampson and the Chinese-born, award-winning novelist Yan Geling discuss writing about the underworld with Sarah Passmore.

Ian McEwan has published numerous award-winning novels and short story collections. He gained notoriety early in his career for his shocking and often disquieting subject matter. An accomplished novelist, he has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Priz...

Dr. Kathy Reichs is an internationally recognized forensic anthropologist and the bestselling award-winning author of numerous crime novels, including Deja Dead, which became a New York Times bestseller. The hit television series Bones, featuring the h...

David Davidar is a publisher turned author. He was president and CEO of Penguin books in India when his novel ‘The House of the Blue Mangoes’ was published and went on to become an international best seller. He told Sarah Passmore how rather than helpi...

Marina Lewycka had huge success with her first published novel ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian’, which deals with the sticky subject of an elderly parent deciding to marry a woman less than half his age. She Sarah Passmore about her apparent o...

Philip Ardagh is a successful children’s author known for his quirky style. He is best known for his two series “Eddie Dickens” and “Unlikely Exploits” and for co-writing a book with Sir Paul Mccartney. He told Sarah Passmore about his unique writing s...

Colin Thubron is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. His latest travel book ‘Shadows of the Silk Road’ is an account of his 7,000-mile journey along the route of the Silk Road. He spoke to Sarah Passmore and told her why he was drawn to travel.

Patrick Gale is a British writer who wrote his first novel in his order pad while working as a singing waiter. He has since become well known for his family dramas, the latest of which is ‘Notes from an Exhibition’, a story of a gifted artist suffering...

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.