Born 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 .

Namu 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.

Namu 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.

Born 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 .

For 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.

Was 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.

Was 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.

For 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.

2006 Booker Prize winner and the youngest women to have won the accolade. Her winning book "The Inheritance of Loss" took seven years to write.

Gleitzman 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.

Best 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) .

The 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.

The 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.

Jan Morris is a travel-writer and historian, famed in particular for her portraits of cities such as Venice, Trieste and Hong Kong.

Born 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.

Author, 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...

A 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.

The foreign-correspondent turned author has had great success with a string of non-fiction books, including "The Professor and the Madman", "Krakatoa".

RTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.

Tahitian 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...

Author 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.

RTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.

A Hong Kong native who has written short stories and essays as well as six novels, the most recent being "Overleaf Hong Kong".

Tahitian 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 book