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This year we are not printing or sending physical tickets; therefore PLEASE PRINT and SHOW your receipt at each event, as this serves as your ticket.  (Your receipt is a printed copy of the email confirmation from Paypal (if you bought tickets online) or the email from the Festival (if you paid via cheque) as evidence of your registration.)
 
Don't delay! With events beginning to fill up and sell out, we invite you to take a look at the full programme and buy tickets now! Tickets for the Financial Times Great Debate are now for sale -- hear Gillian Tett, James Kynge, Edward Luce and John Authers debate whether China will be a superpower in 2020.

2009 Man Asian Literary Prize winner Su Tong will be participating in the Festival. Hear him on Wednesday, 17 March at the Fringe Club.

Tickets are now available for over 35 events. More events will be posted in the next week as final details are confirmed! 

The Festival Book Club will meet at The Classified Room on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 at 7:30pm to discuss Jill Dawson's novel, The Great Lover. For more details click here.

Mark your calendars now: on 20 January 2010 the full programme for the 2010 Festival will be unveiled. Tickets for the general public will go on sale from this date. Select events are now on sale for 2010 Friends of the Festival. Become a Friend and start buying events now!

Join now to be a Friend of the Festival! Contribute to the enhancement of the literary arts in Asia and to take advantage of exclusive benefits and privileges. Large or small, all donations are gratefully received.  To join download and complete the 2010 Friends of the Festival Application Form.

The Festival Book Club will meet on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss books written by authors participating in the Festival. The first meeting, Wednesday, 20 January 2010, will discuss Rachel Kushner's Telex From Cuba and will begin at 7:30pm. Places limited to 20 participants; please click here for details.  

A panel of three internationally acclaimed authors and experienced literary judges named Chinese author Su Tong the winner of the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize for his work, The Boat to Redemption. The novel, translated by Howard Goldblatt, is about a disgraced party official forced to make a new life amongst the boat people resulting in revolutionary impulse.

Life is full of unexpected pleasures; discovering new voices is certainly one such treat. Come hear Omair Ahmad, Siddharth Chowdhury, Eric Gamalinda, Nitasha Kaul and Su Tong, the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlisted authors, read excerpts from their nominated works on Sunday, 15 November at the Foreign Correspondents' Club.

Come hear Pankaj Mishra discuss the "Idea of Asia" with Zoher Abdoolcarim, Asia Editor of TIME International on 17 November at the Kee Club.

Hear internationally acclaimed authors Colm Tóibín, Gish Jen and Pankaj Mishra in Hong Kong in November. 2009 Friends and Patrons have priority booking for November events from 12-16 October. For more details, click on the events below or go to www.festival.org.hk/programme.

The Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 15 October 2009