The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival Presents:
15th March, 2011
Her achievements include an O. Henry Prize story and first prize in the South China Morning Post story contest . The New York Times named her a pioneer English-language writer from Asia and the Voice of America featured her on their Chinese-language TV series ‘Cultural Odyssey.' Hear Xu Xi, author of HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY, discuss and read from her latest book.
Event Details:
7:20-8:30pm
Central Library
Hong Kong
Ticket Purchase:
Ticket Price HKD$130.00
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Commercial Press Book Centre Presents:
The Damaged Book Launch
12th March, 2011
Meet author Adrian Tilley and help us celebrate the second book in his Hong Kong Teen Thriller series, THE DAMAGED.
Event Details:
3:30-4:30pm
Blooming Club corner
Commercial Press Book Centre
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Bookazine Presents:
The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze Book Launch
10th March, 2011
Meet THE MAN WHO DAMMED THE YANGTZE author and American Book Award winner, Alex Kuo.
Event Details:
6:30pm
Bookazine
Prince's Building
Hong Kong
The China Bookworm International Literary Festival 2011 Presents:
Habit of a Foreign Sky author, Xu Xi
4th-9th March, 2011
Event Details:
TBA
Beijing Bookworm and Chengdu Bookworm
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Hong Kong University Library Reading Club Presents:
Reading & conversation with Xu Xi, moderated by journalist Richard Lord
24th February, 2011
How much is a writer the character(s) of her novels? Authorial distance can often be hard to gauge in books that are supposedly "fiction." Come and join this provocative conversation between author Xu Xi and journalist Richard Lord as they discuss Xu's new novel HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY. Xu will also give a brief, introductory reading from the book. Signing & reception follows.
About the Speaker:
XU XI recently returned to roost awhile in her birth city Hong Kong after a dozen or so years traversing the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong and the South Island of New Zealand (plus spaces in between and beyond where a land mass beckoned). The author previously published seven other books of fiction & essays, including Evanescent Isles, Overleaf Hong Kong & The Unwalled City, and edited three volumes of Hong Kong writing in English, most recently FIFTY-FIFTY. She is currently writer-in-residence at City University of Hong Kong where she established and directs the world's first, international, low-residency Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing that specializes in Asian writing in English. She holds a MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Visit www.xuxiwriter.com.
About the Moderator:
RICHARD LORD is a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist. He writes for more or less everyone about more or less everything, but one of his many avatars is as a book reviewer for the South China Morning Post. A graduate of Oxford University who seems to have worked for most of the world's newspapers and magazines at some point over the years, he's also the author of a boring and inaccurate business book, an occasional TV sports pundit, a former stand-up comedian, a compulsive world traveler and an irritating know-it-all. For some reason these qualities appear to qualify him to moderate author talks such as this one.
Event Details:
7:15-9pm
Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library
The University of Hong Kong
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Taboan 2011 International Writers Festival Presents:
In for the Long Haul: Going for the Novel
12th February, 2011
The late Bienvenido Santos once said that he always kept a chart of his characters and the threads of the plot before he even started to write the first word of his novels. How does one proceed from a grain of salt to a salted earth? What research is involved in writing fiction beyond fifty pages? What strategies and processes are taken to sustain even the writer's own interest to finish it?
Discussion with Jun Balde, Krip Yuson, HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY author Xu Xi, and Rony Diaz. Moderated by Cristina Hidalgo.
Event Details:
1:30-3pm
Royal Mandaya Hotel
Davao, Mindanao
Philippines
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Taboan 2011 International Writers Festival Presents:
Beyond Borders: Globalizing Local Writing
11th February, 2011
Should the Filipino writer write for an international audience? If yes, what does it entail? If no, how will Philippine writing have a global impact and/or a global audience? Do we really need to go global?
Discussion with Cristina Hidalgo, HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY author Xu Xi, and Chris Mooney Singh. Moderated by Butch Dalisay.
Event Details:
3:15-4:45pm
Royal Mandaya Hotel
Davao, Mindanao
Philippines
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2011 AWP Annual Conference Presents:
"What Women DON'T Write About When We Write About Sex"
3rd February, 2011
In a post-feminist age, the memoir has blown the lid off sexual secrets, and in all genres, women have written increasingly frankly about sexuality over the last fifty years. It almost seems that nothing is off limits. But what’s the art and craft of this sexual “anything goes”? Six women discuss the treatment of sex in their writing and ask: do we write Passion? Do we write Lust? Do we write Love? And what don’t we write about when we write about sex?
HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY author Xu Xi will chair the panel with Ellen Bass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Honor Moore, Sue Silverman, and Victoria Redel.
Event Details:
3pm
2011 AWP Annual Conference
Palladian Ballroom
Omni Shoreham Hotel, West Lobby
Washington, DC USA
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The Asia Society Presents:
Reading & Book Discussion with Habit of a Foriegn Sky author, Xu Xi
1st February, 2011
Event Details:
6:30-8pm
The Asia Society
Whittemore House
1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.
USA
Ticket Purchase:
The Asia Society Website
$10 Asia Society members; $12 Asia Society non-members.
RSVP required by 12:00pm on January 31st.