The undisputed literary event champion of Shanghai is back!
Returning for another year to Glam on March 15-28, M Restaurant Group’s long-running Shanghai International Literary Festival will once again be inviting dozens of award-winning and best-selling authors to the city to speak about their latest works and share their love, habits and routine of writing and reading with the audience.
The full schedule has just been released — take a look at full descriptions of each session here. Tickets will go on sale on their website on Monday, February 26.
Every creed of author is set to appear at this year's fest, including Paul Beatty (The Sellout), Paul French (Midnight in Peking and City of Devils), Geoff Dyer (White Sands), Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Death of a River Guide, Sound of One Hand Clapping and Wanting) Palani Mohan (Hunting with Eagles and Wind Water), Lenora Chu (Little Soldiers) and Laline Paull (The Bees and The Ice) and much more.
Here's a handy schedule (click image to enlarge):
And here are links to each ticketing page...
Thursday, March 15
Daan Roggeveen: Progress & Prosperity
Mar 15, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Paul French: City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir (World Premiere)
Mar 15, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Friday, March 16
Sui Wei and Austin Woerner: Book Launch, The Invisible Valley
Mar 16, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Geoff Dyer: White Sands - Experiences from the Outside World
Mar 16, 6pm, RMB85 (RM40 for students), tickets
Saturday, March 17
Tess Johnston: A War Away - An American Girl in Vietnam, 1967-1974
Mar 17, 10am, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Paul French: Recovering the Lost Stories of Shanghai - Show Girls, Gypsies & Gangsters
Mar 17, noon, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Victor Mallet: River of Life, River of Death - The Ganges and Modern India
Mar 17, 2pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Laline Paull: The Ice
Mar 17, 4pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Dan Goldman: Creating Art on Multimedia Platforms
Mar 17, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Sunday, March 18
M.T. Anderson: Symphony for the City of the Dead - Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Mar 18, 10am, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Palani Mohan: Hunting with Eagles - In the Realm of the Mongolia Kazakhs
Mar 18, noon, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Richard Flanagan: The Alchemy of Story
Mar 18, 2pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
The Great FT Debate
Mar 18, 4pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Monday, March 19
Stewart Lee Beck: 18 Amazing People Who Influenced Modern China
Mar 19, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Palani Mohan: Photography Workshop - Wind, Water
Mar 19, 3pm, RMB100, tickets
Glenn Diaz: Globalism in the Philippines - Finding Answers in Fiction
Mar 19, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Tuesday, March 20
Poetry Panel: The Personal in the Local, the Local in the Global
Mar 20, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Nicholas Bonner: Made in North Korea - Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK
Mar 20, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Thursday, March 22
Ross Garnaut: Forty Years of Economic Reform in China
Mar 22, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Charlotte Wood & Sheng Keyi: Dystopia & The Maiden
Mar 22, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Friday, March 23
Charlotte Wood, Alexis Wright & Fiona Wright: Stella Stars
Mar 23, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Ayse Kulin Workshop: Short Story Writing
Mar 23, 3pm, RMB100, tickets
Alexander Weinstein: Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Fiction - Children of the New World
Mar 23, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Saturday, March 24
Aaliyah Bilal: Black Lives in Jazz Age Shanghai
Mar 24, 10am, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Ayse Kulin: Last Train to Istanbul
Mar 24, noon, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Alexis Wright: Tracker
Mar 24, 2pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Osamah Sami: Good Muslim Boy
Mar 24, 4pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
That's Shanghai Erotic Fiction Competition
Mar 24, 6pm, free, more details here
Sunday, March 25
Live Illustrations with Tango
Mar 25, 10am, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Richard McGregor: Asia's Reckoning
Mar 25, noon, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Sara Baume: A Line Made by Walking
Mar 25, 2pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Paul Beatty: The Sellout
Mar 25, 4pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Monday, March 26
Robert Oliver: Tastes of the South Pacific
Mar 26, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Osamah Sami Workshop: Writing Across Mediums
Mar 26, 3pm, RMB100, tickets
Peter Conradi: Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War
Mar 26, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Tuesday, March 27
Claire Chao: Remembering Shanghai
Mar 27, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
Roseann Lake: Leftover in China - The Women Shaping the World's Next Super Power
Mar 27, 6pm, RMB85 (RMB40 for students), tickets
Wednesday, March 28
Lenora Chu: Little Soldiers - An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve
Mar 28, noon, RMB180 (includes lunch), tickets
2018 Shanghai International Literary Festival, Mar 15-28. M Glam, see event listing here, buy tickets.
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