Markus Zusak is the award-winning author of four books for young adults. With the publication of The Book Thief in 2006, Australian and US critics are now dubbing Mr. Zusak a “literary phenomenon”. He discussed The Book Thief, with RTHK's Sarah Pas...

RTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Markus Zusak

Andrew Barker holds a degree in English literature, a Master of Arts in Anglo-Irish Literature, and a PhD in American Literature. A regular contributor to live performances of poetry at the Hong Kong Fringe Club Outloud and Joyce Is Not Here weekly poe...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Andrew Barker

Jeffrey Wasserstrom who writes regularly for both academic institutions and general interest publications such as Newsweek and The Nation, was trained in Chinese studies and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of London,...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Chiew-Siah Tei is a bilingual Malaysian author. She has been widely published in Malaysian Chinese media since the 1980s. Ms. Tei left for Scotland in 2002 to pursue a PhD in Creative Writing and Film Studies at Glasgow University, where she began w...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Chiew-Siah Tei

Rana Dasgupta was born in England in 1971. He studied at the University of Oxford, the Conservatoire National de Musique Darius Milhaud and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He now lives in New Delhi. Mr. Dasgupta’s first book, Tokyo Cancelled (2...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Rana Dasgupta

Elizabeth Laird is a prolific author for children and teenagers. She has also traveled extensively spending a lot of time, in particular, in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Iraq. Sarah Passmore put it to her that they were an “interesting” collection of places t...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Elizabeth Laird

Sophie Gee was born in Sydney and in 2002 was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of English at Princeton. She teaches classes on eighteenth-century literature ranging from Milton to Jane Austen. Before writing The Scandal of the S...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Sophie Gee

Frances Wood studied art at Liverpool College of Art and then graduated in Chinese from Cambridge University. She did a PhD in Chinese architecture at London University and spent a year as a "worker-peasant-soldier" student in Beijing, 1975-76, ending ...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Frances Wood

Julia Whitty is an award-winning creative writer, world traveller and environmental journalist. She was born in Bogota, Colombia to an Australian father and an Anglo-Indian mother, and holds dual American and Australian citizenships. Her first novel...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Julia Whitty

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. After leaving the Pakistan Air Force Academy to pursue a career in journalism, he worked for Newsline, India Today and The Washington Post. He has written plays for the stage and screen, including a criticall...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Mohammed Hanif

Mara Moustafine was born in Harbin, China into a family with Jewish, Russian and Tatar roots and moved to Australia as a child in 1959. Bilingual in Russian and English, she has worked as a diplomat, intelligence analyst, journalist and business execut...

The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009 - Interview with Mara Moustafine

RTHK Radio 3 is the Radio Partner for the Festival, and will interview many of the authors who have participated in. Here are full versions, which only available in here. Listen to streaming versions or download to the portable devices at your leisure.

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RTHK：The MAN HK International Literary Festival 2009

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