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From Page to Screen

    1. Stream
      Author of the Day Programme
      Digital
    2. Event Type Seminar

16 Apr 2012, 13:00 - 14:00

Whitehall Room

Language:
English

Chinese & English simultaneous translation.

Four writers who have celebrated success both on page and on screen discuss the particular challenges and rewards of being a writer of fiction as well as a screenwriter.

Contributors

  • Han Dong

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Speaker

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Han Dong’s parents were sent down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and took him with them. After the Revolution ended he taught...

  • Xiaolu Guo

    Novelist

    Speaker

    Freelance

    Guo Xiaolu was born in a fishing village in the south of China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before...

  • Owen Sheers

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Speaker

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author and scriptwriter. He has published two poetry collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill which won a Somerset...

  • Megan Walsh

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Chairperson

    Writer & Screenwriter

    Megan Walsh is a feature writer, assistant editor and book critic on The Times Saturday Review.

Audience

  1. Audience
    Film / TV Producers
    Booksellers
    Editors
    Publishers
    Students
    Translators
    Authors

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