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 | Hong Kong Whodunnits Launch Party -- Join the authors from the Hong Kong Writers' Circle as they toast the launch of their new short story collection featuring John Biggs, Mio Debnam, Michael Gibb, Lawrence Gray, Ian Greenfield, Peter Gregoire, Tammy Ho, Diana McPartlin, Shobha Nihalani, Jane Wallace and Jeff Zroback. An entertaining evening of readings and competitions, and a great opportunity to network with local writers. Admission includes a copy of Hong Kong Whodunnits and snacks. This is an independent event hosted during festival week.
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 | Beginnings -- Join us for a celebration of life and literature. Hosted by Reverend Matthew Vernon. Featuring Shaiyra Devi, Viki Holmes, Ilyas Khan, Christine Loh, Peter Moss, Rosemary Sayer and Jennifer Wong. The Soho Collective singers will also perform.
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| 5:30pm | University of Hong Kong, Rayson Huang Theatre | free | event code: 12A |
| 7:30pm | University of Hong Kong, Rayson Huang Theatre | free | event code: 12C |
 | SOLD OUT The Iconic Gore Vidal -- Gore Vidal, the uncompromising observer of politics, culture and history in conversation with Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales.
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 | SOLD OUT M Literary Lunch: Madhur Jaffrey -- Join Madhur Jaffrey, the actress and consummate authority on the foods of India, as she discusses her memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees, her writing, her acting and her life. This is a special fundraising lunch for the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Registration begins at 12:00pm and lunch begins at 12:30pm.
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 | SOLD OUT The Handover: Ten Years On -- They witnessed history in the making in 1997, the date of Hong Kong’s change of sovereignty. Ten years later, authors Susanna Hoe, Peter Moss and Xu Xi discuss Hong Kong before and after the Handover. David McKirdy moderates.
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| Craft of Writing: From Curries to Sweet Chutneys -- Bestselling cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey has introduced food lovers around the world to home-cooked Indian cuisine with her cookery books. Learn how to write successfully about food. Susan Jung, Food and Drinks Editor for The South China Morning Post, moderates this event.
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 | SOLD OUT Man Investments Presents The 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner: Kiran Desai -- Kiran Desai’s novel, The Inheritance of Loss, deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile and the ambiguities of post-colonialism. Come hear her as she relates anecdotes about her characters, writing and life. In conversation with Charles Foran. Please note that this event includes a champagne reception and a signed copy of the book, available at the event. Proudly supported by David Tang.
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IMPRINT Book Launch -- The Women in Publishing Society invite you to their book launch party for their annual anthology, IMPRINT 2007. The party takes place at the ultra chic and glamourous FINDS restaurant and bar. Delectable nibbles, wine and complimentary copy of IMPRINT 2007 to all attendees. This is an independent event hosted during festival week.
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 | A Writer's Life: Dinner with John Ralston Saul -- John Ralston Saul, philosopher, fiction writer and essayist chats with fellow Canadian Charles Foran about his extraordinary life as one of world's most eminent writers and thinkers.
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 | Tempted by the West -- Pankaj Mishra illuminates the challenge of Western-style globalisation in South and Central Asia, where the pull of the West is countered by the politics of nationalism. Hear his reflections over lunch.
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 | Craft of Writing: Getting Started in Hong Kong -- Two resident writers share tips on how to get started in Hong Kong. They share experiences such as writer’s block and the secrets of getting published. Lynne O’Donnell, a journalist and writer has just published her first book, High Tea in Mosul. Peter Moss has published an autobiographical trilogy as well as five novels. Author Nigel Collett moderates.
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 | SOLD OUT The South China Morning Post Presents Tales from Afar: Adventures Around the World -- Jan Morris climbed to fame as a journalist when she scooped the news of Hunt’s Everest climb. Coronation Everest documented the story and began a prolific writing career. Ms. Morris has since established herself as a major travel writer. Simon Winchester, her longtime friend and an adventurer, historian and travel writer himself, joins her to chat about their works. Mark Clifford, Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post will moderate this very special event.
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| 7:00pm | HKUST, Town Centre, Hong Kong Club Building, Central | free | event code: 14G |
 | From the Land of Oz: Book Club Tea -- Join some of our wonderful Australian writers for tea. Hear stories of Tahiti from Celestine Vaite, tales of teaching English in Tokyo by Andrew O’Connor, and discuss reading and writing plays with Katherine Thomson. Moderated by Jane Camens. Proudly supported by The China Tee Club.
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 | Craft of Writing: Historical Fiction -- A former reporter, Adam Williams’ shift to fiction started a bidding war for his first novel, The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. His historical novels have been called “swashbuckling . . . with the right ingredients for a riveting read”. Learn how to write page-turning historical fiction at this workshop.
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| M Literary Reception: Champagne and Caviar with Jan Morris -- Enjoy the ambiance at M on the Fringe, indulge in some bubbly and caviar, and listen to the legendary Jan Morris, writer, journalist, historian and traveller. Does it get better than this? This is a fundraising event for the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Many thanks go to Richard Paine, owner of Fine Vintage, for his generosity in contributing the champagne.
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| British Council Presents Mangoes and Monsoons -- Madhur Jaffrey paints a vivid picture of a magical childhood and evocatively captures the details of the foods of her childhood. Join the actress and consummate authority on the foods of India as she discusses her memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. In conversation with Michelle Garnaut, renowned restaurateur and owner of M at the Fringe. There will be a reception and registration from 6:30pm, the talk begins at 7:00pm.
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 | Dinner with Alice Greenway -- Journalist-turned-author Alice Greenway returns to Hong Kong, her former home and the setting for the widely acclaimed novel White Ghost Girl. The story takes place during the Vietnam War and tackles a host of weighty subjects — war, communism and the end of innocence.
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 | Poetry Roundtable -- “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.” – William Wordsworth. Reconnect with poetry as local and international poets read and discuss their works. Featuring Martin Alexander, Viki Holmes, Jam Ismail, Alan Jefferies, Timothy Kaiser, Leung Ping-kwan, David McKirdy, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Mani Rao, Madeleine Marie Slavick, and Jennifer Wong.
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| 10:00am | 4/F, The Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre | free | event code: 16Z |
The Black Book of Falling: Comic Drawings by Peter Suart -- Tik and Tok creator Peter Suart displays his pen and ink drawings. This exhibition opens today and runs through 15 April. Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and MCCM Creations. This is an independent event hosted during festival week.
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SOLD OUT RTHK Presents A Book Club Tea -- Vietnam-era Hong Kong, English women living in Mosul, Iraq, a passionate first love affair, musings on art, oral histories, guerilla fighters in Africa . . . whether you enjoy poetry, historical fiction, documentary or novels, there is something for everyone at this book club tea. Meet authors Alice Greenway, Uzodinma Iweala, Ed Jocelyn, Leung Ping-kwan, Andrew McEwan, Peter Moss, Peter Neville, Lynne O’Donnell, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Katherine Thomson and Adam Williams and discuss their books. Moderated by Sarah Passmore of RTHK over afternoon tea.
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 | Craft of Writing: Creating Children's Stories -- Perfect your own enchanting children’s story in this double bill. Newbery Award winner Linda Sue Park presents "The Three Best Gifts", a talk about the craft of writing for young people. Gail Carson Levine, author of several bestselling children’s books as well as the title Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly, follows her. Discover what makes a character possess the magic that bewitches children.
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 | Craft of Writing: Serendipity--A Fiction Master Class -- Romesh Gunesekera has run his Serendipity Fiction Workshop around the world to rave reviews. It's designed to help "discover what you know, and what you need to know, to write fiction". His works include Heaven's Edge, The Sandglass, Reef (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), a collection of short stories, Monkfish Moon and The Match, a psychological thriller. Hone your writing skills with this award-winning author. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.
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| 7:00pm | DotCod, Prince's Building, 10 Chater Road, Central | HK$700 | event code: 16I |
SOLD OUT Raise a Glass to Literature: A Wine Dinner Not to be Missed! -- This event pairs two of life’s greatest pleasures: wine and literature. The selected wines will be matched with our some of the Festival’s best raconteurs including Morris Gleitzman, Peter Neville, Celestine Vaite and Simon Winchester. This fabulous event will be hosted by Kim Murphy and Rosemary Sayer. Many thanks go to Annette Pocklington, owner of Kedington Wines, and Kim Murphy, owner of The Wine Institute of Asia for their generosity in contributing the wines. Proudly supported by DotCod.
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Rhyme Across Time -- Featured poets interpret timeless topics. Experience the poetry of Wendy Cope, Robert Frost, Federico Garcia Lorca, George Mackay Brown and Rumi on: endings and beginnings, nature, love, lives and body and soul read by local poets Martin Alexander, Sally Dellow, Viki Holmes, Alan Jefferies and Madeleine Marie Slavick. Featured poets Daniel Hall, Leung Ping-kwan, Laksmi Pamuntjak and Mani Rao interpret these topics in their own distinctive voices. Moderated by local poet David McKirdy.
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 | Dinner with Urvashi Butalia -- Based in New Delhi, India, Urvashi Butalia is a strong advocate for the Indian and global women's movements. She is the author of the award-winning The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. In addition to writing, she runs Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house which she co-founded. Hear her reflect on women in India, past, present and future.
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 | SOLD OUT Madmen and Beasts: History, Fiction and Everything in Between -- This unmissable double bill starts with adventurer, foreign correspondent and author Simon Winchester sharing stories from his award-winning 20-year career in journalism and discussing his shift to bestselling author. Then, three of this year’s hottest new novelists discuss their works: Alice Greenway (White Ghost Girls), Uzodinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nation) and Andrew O’Connor (Tuvalu). Both parts are in conversation with Charles Foran.
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 | SOLD OUT Craft of Writing: The Secrets of Travel Writing -- Award winning journalist and travel writer, Claire Scobie, will reveal the secrets behind successful travel writing and teach how to develop an idea into a polished piece of work. Learn how to evoke a sense of place, how to craft a personal journey into a short article and how to successfully pitch travel stories to newspaper and magazine editors. She will also examine the different genres of travel writing in journalism and draw upon on her own experience when writing her first book, Last Seen in Lhasa. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.
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 | Craft of Writing: Poetry Masterclass -- Daniel Hall is the Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College. His poetry was selected as a part of the National Poetry Series. He has been published in several journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The Nation. Come learn how to craft poems with this virtuoso. This workshop will explore the relative virtues of form and free verse and includes a class discussion about each participant's poems; please submit at least one poem in advance. Limited to 15 participants.
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 | Asia Society Presents Exotic Places -- South East Asia, the Pacific Islands, Sri Lanka and Australia all offer writers a colourful and lively backdrop and a varied palette of subjects. Sri Lankan-born Romesh Gunesekera (Reef) and Tahitian novelist Celestine Vaite (Frangipani) discuss their works and how their surroundings, culture and background shaped their stories. Sarah Passmore of RTHK will moderate this event. RTHK is the radio partner for this event.
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 | SOLD OUT Reflections: The Art of the Essay -- "The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything." -- so said Aldous Huxley. Three master essayists, Jan Morris, Canada's Charles Foran and Hong Kong's own David Tang -- whose work is found in newspapers and journals the world over -- discuss the power and pertinence of the essay as a literary form with moderator Peter Gordon.
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 | SOLD OUT "Tea for Two and Two for Tea": Children's Authors' Tea -- Disney hosts an afternoon tea for parents, educators and other lovers of children's books to meet with children’s authors Shamini Flint, Morris Gleitzman, Jan Latta, Gail Carson Levine, Cheryl Long, Sophie Paine, Linda Sue Park, Peter Suart, Roseanne Thong. Hear riveting stories about how the characters in their books came to life and their ideas for getting children to love reading and writing. Moderated by Kylie Watson-Wheeler and Kate Whitehead. Proudly supported by The Walt Disney Company.
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 | SOLD OUT War Stories -- Join four authorities on the history of human conflict and war at the exclusive Crown Cellars, a former World War II Bunker, now an elegantly restored private wine cellar and restaurant. Moderated by well known Hong Kong historian Jason Wordie, this afternoon session will cover Hong Kong's war time experiences with Tony Banham, reveal the tragedy of the 1919 massacre of Amiritsar in India with Nigel Collett, and help us understand the threatening situation in Singapore and Malaya in the 1950s through the fictionalised personal experiences of former aircraftman Peter Neville. Afternoon tea will be served. Proudly supported by Crown Wine Cellars.
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 | A Life Less Ordinary -- Come hear the extraordinary tale of Baby Halder. Married off at age 12, she later walked out with her three children after her husband attacked her. Arriving in Delhi, she worked as a household cleaner and wrote her now bestselling memoir. Urvashi Butalia, noted historian, writer and feminist, translates for Ms. Halder in this touching, riveting talk. Please note that this talk will be translated from Hindi.
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 | Remote Travels -- Sun Shuyun retraced the route of the Long March, through hostile and often dangerous terrain, reconstructing the story and investigating the myths that surround it. Claire Scobie documented her travels to Tibet over several years and wrote about the extraordinary friendship she developed with a nomadic nun. Moderated by Jane Camens.
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| 6:30pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre, Foyer and Garden, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai | free | event code: 17R |
| Poetry: Open Mike -- A lively and entertaining evening of contemporary poetry from published and unpublished poets.
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Late shift: Music Night -- And on a different note . . . come hear some of our guest authors' talents outside of the literary field. This promises to be a fun event for all.
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| 10:00am | Pacific Coffee, G/F, Hutchison House, Central | HK$200 | event code: 18B |
 | SOLD OUT Coffee with The Gruffalo -- Enjoy an intimate Sunday morning listening to bestselling children’s author Julia Donaldson read her stories. Her best-known works include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Princess Mirror-Belle. There will be a booksigning after the reading. Ticket admits one adult plus up to two children and includes juice, coffee and cookies. Proudly supported by Pacific Coffee.
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| 10:30am | Fringe Club, Fringe Theatre · Champagne Brunch | HK$250 | event code: 18A |
 | SOLD OUT Half the Sky: Chinese Women Writers -- From politician to singer, California to Hong Kong, novelist to historian, Guo Xiaolu, Christine Loh, Shih Shu-ching, Sun Shuyun, Amy Tan, Xu Xi, and Namu Yang are also amazing writers. Now living around the world, they have a common thread: their roots are in China. These leading women writers discuss their culture, language and heritage at a champagne brunch moderated by Rosemary Sayer. This event launches our Sunday dedicated to these wonderful Chinese women writers.
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 | Chinese Characters -- Shih Shu-ching is one of the most influential cultural figures in Taiwan. City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong is recently available in English. Guo Xiaolu was born and raised in the south of China. Her latest book, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, won critical acclaim as a notable export from China’s younger literary scene. These two authors will discuss their works, and what it means to leave home. Local author Xu Xi will moderate the talk.
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North -- Peter Suart, talks about the seventh book in the Tik and Tok series, North. This talk is presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and MCCM Creations. This is an independent event hosted during festival week.
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 | Memoirs of a Matriarchy -- Born in the remote reaches of the Himalayas, Namu Yang is from the Moso ethnic group, a matriarchal society near Burma. At 13, she left home for the first time to partake in a singing contest that ultimately led her to Peking. Listen to the stories of her childhood and hear her reflections on writing Leaving Mother Lake, the widely acclaimed memoir she co-authored with Christine Mathieu.
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 | SOLD OUT Embarrassing Secrets, Germs and Itchy Nipples: Stories for Children of All Ages -- Morris Gleitzman is the wildly popular writer of children's stories and a former scriptwriter of TV’s The Norman Gunston Show. He has written over twenty books since his debut, Two Weeks With The Queen. Guaranteed to make you and your children laugh, he will share some of the real life stories that inspired his writings. This event is for children seven years and older.
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 | Shih Shu-ching -- Shih Shu-ching is one of the most influential cultural figures in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Her novels have won numerous awards and been translated into many languages. Please note this lecture will be in Putonghua.
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Leading Through Conflict -- The author of Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities, Mark Gerzon is also the Chairman of the Mediator Foundation and the founder of the Global Leadership Network. He has worked with the United States House of Representatives, the United Nations and many leading companies to enhance leaders' capacity to deal with conflict. This is an independent event hosted by Civic Exchange during festival week.
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 | The Long March -- Chinese historian and writer Sun Shuyun followed the route of the Long March, interviewed survivors and reconstructed a defining moment in China’s history. Andrew McEwan and Ed Jocelyn preserved and recorded the personal oral histories of the survivors of the Long March as they also retraced the rugged route of the 1930s Long March. The authors will discuss the stories, histories and myths of the historical event.
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The Business of Books: Publishing Session -- Publishers discuss the business behind getting published. Learn how and why decisions are made in the industry. This panel will give pointers on how to go about getting the attention of a publisher. Thomas Abraham moderates a panel with Marysia Juszczakiewicz (Creative Work), Jo Lusby (Penguin China), Peter Gordon (Chameleon Press), and Daniel Watts (Pan Macmillan Asia).
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| Joy, Luck, and Fate: Amy Tan -- Internationally bestselling novelist Amy Tan reflects on her books, starting with The Joy Luck Club which was made into a blockbuster movie and ending with her latest novel: Saving Fish from Drowning.
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| SOLD OUT Musings: An Amy Tan Gala Event -- Amy Tan is one of the most beloved international authors today. The writer of The Joy Luck Club talks with acclaimed Canadian writer Charles Foran about her contributions to modern literature. Please note that this event includes a champagne reception and a signed copy of Saving Fish from Drowning, available at the event. Proudly supported by David Tang.
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The Illustrator and Cartoonist -- Peter Suart presents a talk and slide show on illustrators, cartoonists and artists. This talk is presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and MCCM Creations. This is an independent event hosted during festival week.
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