The Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2014 Schools Programme School Order Form

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1 Chan Koon Chung Chan Koon Chung was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His first novel, The Fat Years, is available in 4 languages worldwide; that count does not include simplified Chinese, the book was considered too controversial for publication in mainland China, although it has been published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Fat Years was a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Chan s latest book, The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver, is set on the road between Lhasa and Beijing, and paints a sharp image of the racial and political tensions of modern China. Discounted HK$20.00 HK$02.00 HK$95.00 HK$65.80 CHAN THE FAT YEARS KOON CHUNG THE UNBEARABLE DREAMWORLD OF CHAMPA THE DRIVER CHAN KOON CHUNG Maria Chaudhuri Maria Chaudhuri was born in Bangladesh and lived there till the end of her high school years. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, studies screenwriting at New York University, and received her MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Vermont. Her first book is Beloved Strangers, which draws on the perspective of being a Bengali woman living in both Bangladesh and abroad and being a person who has never been able to call one place home BELOVED STRANGERS: A MEMOIR MARIA CHAUDHURI HK$ Discounted HK$9.30 Frank Dikotter Frank Dikotter is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, and was previously on the faculty at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is the author, most recently of Mao s Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation, the first two books in trilogy that use new archival evidence to document the impact of communism on modern China. He won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 20and The Tragedy of Liberation was nominated for the Orwell Prize. Discounted THE TRAGEDY OF LIBERATION: A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION FRANK DIKOTTER HK$65.00 HK$ MAO S GREAT FAMINE: THE HISTORY OF CHINA S MOST DEVASTATING CATASTROPHE FRANK DIKOTTER HK$50.00 HK$27.50

2 Junot Diaz Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown, the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times-bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/O. Henry Award. Discounted THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO JUNOT DIAZ HK$05.00 HK$ THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER JUNOT DIAZ HK$05.00 HK$ DROWN JUNOT DIAZ HK$20.00 HK$02.00 JOE DUNTHORNE Joe Dunthorne is a Welsh poet and novelist. His first novel, the critically-acclaimed Submarine, was published in 2008 and was adapted by the actor Richard Aoyade into a film which was released in 20. His second novel, Wild Abandon, was set at a commune in South Wales and was shortlisted for the 202 Wales Book of the Year Award. Dunthorne also writes poetry, and in 200 his first collection was published by Faber s New Poets series. Discounted SUBMARINE (FILM TIE-IN EDITON) JOE DUNTHORNE HK$35.00 HK$ WILD ABANDON JOE DUNTHRONE HK$95.00 HK$65.80

3 Shereen El Feki Shereen El Feki is the author of Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World. Nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and The Orwell Prize, Sex and the Citadel has catalyzed a global debate on the linkages between sexuality, politics, economics, religion and gender in the Middle East and North Africa; and Shereen s Ted Talk on the book has received more than a million views in 204. Discounted SEX AND THE CITADEL: INTIMATE LIFE IN A CHANGING ARAB WORLD SHEREEN EL FEKI HK$35.00 HK$4.80 Kimberly Elkins Kimberly Elkins grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Atlantic, The Iowa Review, The Chicago Tribune, Best New American Voices, and Glamour, among others. She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in fiction, and fellowships include Harvard, Radcliffe and the Kerouac Project for research for her novel, What Is Visible, published by Grand Central in June 204 to critical acclaim, including the cover of the New York Times Book Review, and NBC s Today Weekend Show. Discounted WHAT IS VISIBLE: A NOVEL KIMBERLY ELKINS HK$ HK$22.50 Lauren Groff Lauren Groff was born in 978 in Cooperstown, N.Y. She graduated from Amherst College and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and the short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. Her short stories have appeared in a number of journals, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, One Story, and Subtropics, and in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007 and 200. Pushcart Prize XXXII, Best New American Voices 2008, and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 202. Discounted ARCADIA LAUREN GROFF HK$60.00 HK$36.00

4 Sonny Liew Sonny Liew is a Singapore-based comic artist, painter and illustrator whose work includes the 204 New York Times bestseller The Shadow Hero (with Gene Yang) and Malinky Robot, a Xeric grant recipient and winner of the Best Science Fiction comic Album Award at the Utopiales SF Festival in Nantes (2009). He has received Eisner nominations for his art on Wonderland (Disney), as well as for spearheading Liquid City (Image Comics), a multivolume comics anthology featuring creators from Southeast Asia. Other titles include My Faith in Frankie (with Mike Carey) for DC Vertigo and the Jane Austen adaptation Sense & Sensibility with Marvel Comics. Liew s paintings have been exhibited all over the world, and he received the Singapore National Arts Council s Young Artist Award in 200. Discounted THE SHADOW HERO SONNY LIEW HK$95.00 HK$65.80 Shannon Young Shannon Young is an American twenty-something living in Hong Kong. She is the editor of an anthology of creative non-fiction by expat women in Asia called How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit and the author of several e-books including a Kindle Single, Pay Off: How One Millennial Eliminated Nearly $80,000 in Student Debt in Less Than Five Years. Her new memoir from Blacksmith Books, Year of Fire Dragons, is a wide-eyed newcomer s account of Hong Kong wrapped up in an international long distance love story. Discounted HOW DOES ONE DRESS TO BUY DRAGONFRUIT? TRUE STORIES OF EXPAT WOMEN IN ASIA SHANNON YOUNG HK$60.00 HK$ YEAR OF THE FIRE DRAGONS (NOT YET PUBLISHED, DUE LATE NOVEMBER 204) SHANNON YOUNG HK$28.00 HK$08.80

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