Shanghai International Literary Festival

The Shanghai International Literary Festival is an annual event held each March in China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

's largest city, Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

21st century's new literary event

The Shanghai International Literary Festival, started in 2003, is a sister festival to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Hong Kong International Literary Festival

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival is an international literary festival held annually in Hong Kong. In recent years the title sponsor of the festival has been Man Investments, a division of Man Group, title sponsor of the Man Booker Prize...

. Hosted at M on the Bund

The Bund

The Bund is a waterfront area in central Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District...

, the Festival has grown from small beginnings to China’s leading, and largest, English-language literary event. The Festival extends over three weekends and includes a roster of over 50 international and local authors and an audience of more than 4,000. The Festival has also become an important and significant event on China’s arts calendar, with programs that include winners of the world's leading literary prizes, including the Man Booker, National Book Award

National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...

for Fiction, the Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

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award and others.

The Festival was started by Michelle Garnaut, Jenny Laing Peach and Tina Kanagaratnam in 2003 and, each year, attracts authors from around the world and at home in China, for a celebration of the best in fiction, literary non-fiction, journalism, poetry and children’s writing. Activities include interactive forums, sessions in other languages such as Mandarin, Italian and French, as well as popular sessions with well-known writers including Man Booker Prize winners John Banville

John Banville

John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...

, Allan Hollinghurst, Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

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, Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...

and Anne Enright

Anne Enright

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. The Festival has hosted such celebrities as Amy Tan

Amy Tan

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, Jan Morris

Jan Morris

Jan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...

, Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard

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and the legendary Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

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, as well as sessions with well respected and established writers such as Ma Jian

Ma Jian

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, Christopher Kremmer, John Man, Anna Funder

Anna Funder

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, Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

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and Hari Kunzru as well as participation from emerging authors such as Guo Xiaolu, Wang Xiaoli, Priya Basil, James Bradley

James Bradley (Australian writer)

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, Kunal Basu

Kunal Basu

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and Mishi Saran.

Past guests

Michael Aldrich;
Cyril Cannon;
Neel Chowdhury;
Miriam Clifford;
Patrick Cotter;
Stella Dong

Stella Dong

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Graham Earnshaw;
James Fallows

James Fallows

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Jonathan Fenby

Jonathan Fenby

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Sophie Gee;
Cathy Giangrande;
Jane Godwin

Jane Godwin

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Robin Hanbury-Tenison;
Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif

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Alon Hilu

Alon Hilu

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Bamboo Hirst;
Manying Ip;
Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai

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Nam Le

Nam Le (writer)

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Janice Lee;
Min Jin Lee;
Julia Leigh

Julia Leigh

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Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka

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Jen Lin-Liu;
Liu Hong

Liu Hong

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Andrea Lingenfelter;
Laurence Lipsher;
Stephen MacKinnon;
David Marr

David Marr (journalist)

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Thomas McCarthy

Thomas McCarthy (poet)

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Richard McGregor

Richard McGregor

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Zachary Mexico;
Nicole Mones

Nicole Mones

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Mara Moustafine;
Kristin Bair O'Keeffe

Kristin Bair O'Keeffe

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Ou Ning

Ou Ning

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Lynn Pan

Lynn Pan

Lynn Pan , also Ling Pan, is an author and an expert on the Overseas Chinese. She was born in Shanghai and studied at the University of London and Cambridge University. Her best-known book is Sons of the Yellow Emperor. Lynn has lived in Kota Kinabalu , England, Geneva, Helsinki, Hong Kong and...

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Pan Jian Feng;
Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson

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Laura Pugno;
Henry Reynolds

Henry Reynolds

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Simon Schama

Simon Schama

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Stefan Schomann;
Krisztina Tóth

Krisztina Tóth

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom;
Wang Gang

Wang Gang

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Frances Wood

Frances Wood

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Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak

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William Zorzi;
David Almond

David Almond

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Paul Andreu

Paul Andreu

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Philip Ardagh

Philip Ardagh

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John Banville

John Banville

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Geremie Barmé;
Priya Basil

Priya Basil

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Kunal Basu

Kunal Basu

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Michael Bernstein

Michael Bernstein

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Gay Bilson;
James Bradley

James Bradley

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Geraldine Brooks;
Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto

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Lily Brett

Lily Brett

Lily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically and with her feelings about the Holocaust....

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Kerry Brown;
Cai Jindong;
Bob Carr

Bob Carr

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Brian Castro

Brian Castro

Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....

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Lucy Cavender;
Lynda Chanwei-Earle;
Conal Creedon;
Chen Danyan

Chen Danyan

-Life and work:First published articles in Chinese journals in the 1970s. After studying Chinese literature at Eastern China Normal University she worked as an editor for the Children's Epoch magazine....

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Denise Chong

Denise Chong

- Early life and schooling :A third generation Chinese Canadian, Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 June 1953, and was raised in Prince George. She studied economy at the University of British Columbia earning her bachelor degee in 1975...

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Dai Sijie

Dai Sijie

Dai Sijie is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.-Biography:Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his...

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Debra Daley;
Edward Denison

Edward Denison

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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

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Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin is an American screen actress and author.DeWoskin was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, where she attended the alternative Community High School. The daughter of a Sinology professor at the University of Michigan, she majored in English and studied Chinese at Columbia University...

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Robert Elegant

Robert Elegant

Robert Sampson Elegant is a British-American author and journalist born in New York City. He spent many years in Asia as a journalist. The Asian settings of all but one of his novels reflect that experience. He covered both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, as well as four or five lesser conflicts...

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Anne Enright

Anne Enright

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Ed Epstein;
Polly Evans;
James Fallows

James Fallows

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Charles Foran

Charles Foran

Charles Foran is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer living in Peterborough, Ontario.-Biography:Foran was born in August 1960 in Toronto to a Franco-Ontarian mother and a father from an Ottawa Irish family. He attended Catholic elementary school and Brebeuf College School, a Jesuit high...

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Paul French

Paul French

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Anna Funder

Anna Funder

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Raimond Gaita

Raimond Gaita

Raimond Gaita was until 2011 Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London...

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Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is a British novelist who lives in Cornwall.His father was the prison governor of Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight when Gale was born, and he was brought up in and around prisons...

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Rob Gifford

Rob Gifford

Rob Gifford is a British-born radio correspondent. He has degrees in Chinese Studies from Durham University and in Regional Studies from Harvard University. He began to learn Mandarin Chinese in 1987 whilst in China....

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Howard Goldblatt

Howard Goldblatt

Howard Goldblatt is Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame. He is a translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese/Taiwanese fiction, including The Taste of Apples by Huang Chunming and The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi.Goldblatt received a B.A. from Long Beach...

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Rona Grourke;
Mireille Guiliano

Mireille Guiliano

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Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera

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Guo Xiaolu;
Daniel Hall

Daniel Hall

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Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...

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Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States...

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Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss is a contemporary Australian author of Austrian and Indigenous Australian descent.Anita Heiss is from the Wiradjuri people though she grew up in and lives in Sydney. Her mother was brought up in a Catholic mission and her father is originally from Austria...

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Duncan Hewitt;
Peter Hibbard;
Justin Hill

Justin Hill

Justin Hill is an English novelist whose novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times. Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York....

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Graham Hodges;
Susanna Hoe;
Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...

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Hong Ying

Hong Ying

Hong Ying was born in Chongqing on September 21, 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories.After brief periods of...

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Hsu Ming Teo;
David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

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Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala

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Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer

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Beverley Jackson

Beverley Jackson

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Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey

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Gish Jen

Gish Jen

Gish Jen is a contemporary American writer.-Background:...

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Jia Xingpei;
Tess Johnston;
Gail Jones

Gail Jones

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Nicholas Jose

Nicholas Jose

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Tina Kanagaratnam;
Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally

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Claire Kilroy;
Rainer Klubert;
Chrisopher Koch;
Christopher Kremmer;
Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Hari Kunzru;
Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong

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Brook Larmer;
Ed Larson;
Jan Latta;
Leo Ou-Fan Lee;
Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine

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Laura Tyson Li;
Li Weiping;
Liu Haiping;
Tang Loaec;
Joan London

Joan London

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Lu Hua;
Ma Jian

Ma Jian

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Valerio Magrelli

Valerio Magrelli

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Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani

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Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...

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John Man;
Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta

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Mardi McConnochi;
Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack (Irish writer)

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Sheila Melvin;
Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra

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Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris

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Paula Morris;
Doris Mousdale;
Gerry Murphy

Gerry Murphy

Gerry Murphy was the Director of Football Development at Huddersfield Town between 1988 and 2009...

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Simon Napier-Bell

Simon Napier-Bell

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Liz Niven;
Conor O'Callaghan

Conor O'Callaghan

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Lynne O'Donnell;
Peter Osborne

Peter Osborne (writer and academic)

Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy , Kingston University, London...

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Lynn Pan

Lynn Pan

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Basil Pao

Basil Pao

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Chris Patten

Chris Patten

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Doris Pilkington;
John Pomfret

John Pomfret

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Qiu Xiaolong

Qiu Xiaolong

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Edward Ragg;
Ren Guangyu;
Jancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson

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Barnaby Rogerson;
Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy

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Catherine Sampson

Catherine Sampson

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Mishi Saran;
John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul

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Arlette Schleifer;
Desmond Sim;
Richard Smith

Richard Smith

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Erin Stone;
Amy Tan

Amy Tan

Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...

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Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author born in Penang in 1972. His first novel The Gift of Rain was published in 2007 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize that year; it is set in Penang in the years before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World War II and has received critical...

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Chad Taylor

Chad Taylor

Chad Taylor is a guitarist in the bands The Gracious Few and Live. Live have sold over 20 million records, including the 8x platinum album Throwing Copper.-Biography:...

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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under...

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Katherine Thompson;
Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE is a British travel writer and novelist.In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books...

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Tze Ming Mok

Tze Ming Mok

Tze Ming Mok , born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator, and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate...

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Celestine Vaite;
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

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Nury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi is a journalist and author based in Hong Kong. His columns are published daily, weekly in a variety of newspapers in Asia as well as on his website. He is best known for the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective, published in many languages around the world, but he has...

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Joanna Waley-Cohen

Joanna Waley-Cohen

Joanna Waley-Cohen is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at New York University. She specializes in early modern Chinese history, Chinese imperial culture, and China and the West.-Biography:...

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Wang Lili;
Wang Xiaoli

Wang Xiaoli

Wang Xiaoli is an internationally elite badminton player from China.Wang Xiaoli began her international career in 2009 when she paired with Tao Jiaming in Mixed Doubles and with Ma Jin in Women's Doubles...

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Wang Xiaolong

Wang Xiaolong

Wang Xiaolong is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.-Shandong Luneng:...

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Ian Whybrow

Ian Whybrow

Ian Whybrow is a prolific writer of children’s books since his first was published in 1989. He has written over 100 books for children, has been translated into 27 languages and is published in 28 countries. When interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford on 24 March 2009 he stated that he had written 110...

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Adam Williams

Adam Williams

Adam Williams was an American film and television actor.A veteran "bad guy" actor of 1950s film and TV who began his career after distinguished WWII military service as a U.S. Navy pilot, being awarded the Navy Cross. Williams' notable roles included playing Larry, a car bomber, in The Big Heat...

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Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

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Xin Ran;
Namu Erche Yang;
Zhang Lijia;
Zhu Wen

Zhu Wen

Emperor Taizu of Later Liang , personal name Zhu Quanzhong , né Zhu Wen , name later changed to Zhu Huang , nickname Zhu San , was a Jiedushi at the end of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who previously served as a general under the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao's...

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