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16 Apr 2012, 13:00 - 14:00
Whitehall Room
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.
Writer & Screenwriter
Speaker
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...
Novelist
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 is a Welsh poet, author and scriptwriter. He has published two poetry collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill which won a Somerset...
Chairperson
Megan Walsh is a feature writer, assistant editor and book critic on The Times Saturday Review.