The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2012 starts on 5 October. RTHK Radio 3 is proud to be a media partner once again. Over the nine days of the Festival, we'll be talking to many of the writers taking part, and moderating some of the events, and featuring everything we do on our Bookmarks book website.
Alison Wong is a poet and novelist of New Zealand Chinese ancestry. Her first novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction. She was joined by RTHK's Reenita Malhotra Hora to discuss her book's themes love, raci...
Published 10/26/12
Jeet Thayil is a performance poet, librettist, songwriter/musician and self-confessed former drug addict. His book Narcopolis has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
In conversation with RTHK's Hugh Chiverton, the themes and characters ...
Published 10/26/12
John Boyne is author of the bestselling book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and the newly published The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket. He talked to RTHK's Reenita Malhotra Hora and local students about his writing style and work.
Published 10/26/12