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The 2005 Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival is taking shape with National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, Vogel, Kiriyama and Giller Award winners coming from America, Britain, France, China, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.
Audiences will thrill to such new exciting writers as Shan Sa (The Girl Who Played Go), Hsu-ming Teo (Love and Vertigo) and Hari Kunzru (Transmission) while also revisiting such classics as Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus and Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark, two authors whose newest books confirm them as modern literary legends.
The Festival will, for the first time, have not one but two Man Booker Prize winners: current holder Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) is joined by the the 1982 winner Thomas Keneally.
The Festival schedule is jam-packed with other award-winners: Prix Goncourt holder Shan Sa won the 2004 Kiriyama Prize for The Girl Who Played Go. MG Vassanji won Canada's premier Giller Prize in 2003 for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. Hsu-Ming Teo and Alex Miller respectively hold Australia's Vogel and Miles Franklin awards. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi won the Betty Trask for The Last Song of Dusk, while Shirley Hazzard has won the US National Book Award twice. [ more ] [ contact us ]
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