The Shanghai International Literary Festival is an annual event held each March in China's largest city, Shanghai.
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The Shanghai International Literary Festival, started in 2003, is a sister festival to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Hosted at M on the Bund, the Festival has grown from small beginnings to China’s leading, and largest, English-language literary event. The Festival extends over three weekends and includes a roster of over 50 international and local authors and an audience of more than 4,000. The Festival has also become an important and significant event on China’s arts calendar, with programs that include winners of the world's leading literary prizes, including the Man Booker, National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin award and others.
The Festival was started by Michelle Garnaut, Jenny Laing Peach and Tina Kanagaratnam in 2003[1] and, each year, attracts authors from around the world and at home in China, for a celebration of the best in fiction, literary non-fiction, journalism, poetry and children’s writing. Activities include interactive forums, sessions in other languages such as Mandarin, Italian and French, as well as popular sessions with well-known writers including Man Booker Prize winners John Banville, Allan Hollinghurst, Thomas Keneally, Kiran Desai and Anne Enright. The Festival has hosted such celebrities as Amy Tan, Jan Morris, Shirley Hazzard and the legendary Gore Vidal, as well as sessions with well respected and established writers such as Ma Jian, Christopher Kremmer, John Man, Anna Funder, Simon Winchester and Hari Kunzru as well as participation from emerging authors such as Guo Xiaolu, Wang Xiaoli, Priya Basil, James Bradley, Kunal Basu and Mishi Saran.
Michael Aldrich; Cyril Cannon; Neel Chowdhury; Miriam Clifford; Patrick Cotter; Stella Dong; Graham Earnshaw; James Fallows; Jonathan Fenby; Sophie Gee; Cathy Giangrande; Jane Godwin; Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Mohammed Hanif; Alon Hilu; Bamboo Hirst; Manying Ip; Larissa Lai; Nam Le; Janice Lee; Min Jin Lee; Julia Leigh; Marina Lewycka; Jen Lin-Liu; Liu Hong; Andrea Lingenfelter; Laurence Lipsher; Stephen MacKinnon; David Marr; Thomas McCarthy; Richard McGregor; Zachary Mexico; Nicole Mones; Mara Moustafine; Kristin Bair O'Keeffe; Ou Ning; Lynn Pan; Pan Jian Feng; Ridley Pearson; Laura Pugno; Henry Reynolds; Simon Schama; Stefan Schomann; Krisztina Tóth; Jeffrey Wasserstrom; Wang Gang; Frances Wood; Markus Zusak; William Zorzi; David Almond; Paul Andreu; Philip Ardagh; John Banville; Geremie Barmé; Priya Basil; Kunal Basu; Michael Bernstein; Gay Bilson; James Bradley; Geraldine Brooks; Fatima Bhutto; Lily Brett; Kerry Brown; Cai Jindong; Bob Carr; Brian Castro; Lucy Cavender; Lynda Chanwei-Earle; Conal Creedon; Chen Danyan; Denise Chong; Dai Sijie; Debra Daley; Edward Denison; Kiran Desai; Rachel DeWoskin; Robert Elegant; Anne Enright; Ed Epstein; Polly Evans; James Fallows; Charles Foran; Paul French; Anna Funder; Raimond Gaita; Patrick Gale; Rob Gifford; Howard Goldblatt; Rona Grourke; Mireille Guiliano; Romesh Gunesekera; Guo Xiaolu; Daniel Hall; Sonya Hartnett; Shirley Hazzard; Anita Heiss; Duncan Hewitt; Peter Hibbard; Justin Hill; Graham Hodges; Susanna Hoe; Alan Hollinghurst; Hong Ying; Hsu Ming Teo; David Henry Hwang; Uzodinma Iweala; Pico Iyer; Beverley Jackson; Madhur Jaffrey; Gish Jen; Jia Xingpei; Tess Johnston; Gail Jones; Nicholas Jose; Tina Kanagaratnam; Claire Keegan; Thomas Keneally; Claire Kilroy; Rainer Klubert; Chrisopher Koch; Christopher Kremmer; Michelle de Kretser; Maxine Hong Kingston; Hari Kunzru; Kylie Kwong; Brook Larmer; Ed Larson; Jan Latta; Leo Ou-Fan Lee; Gail Carson Levine; Laura Tyson Li; Li Weiping; Liu Haiping; Tang Loaec; Joan London; Lu Hua; Ma Jian; Valerio Magrelli; Kishore Mahbubani; Margaret Mahy; John Man; Melina Marchetta; Mardi McConnochi; Mike McCormack; Sheila Melvin; Pankaj Mishra; Frank Moorhouse; Jan Morris; Paula Morris; Doris Mousdale; Gerry Murphy; Simon Napier-Bell; Liz Niven; Conor O'Callaghan; Lynne O'Donnell; Peter Osborne; Lynn Pan; Basil Pao; Chris Patten; Doris Pilkington; John Pomfret; Qiu Xiaolong; Edward Ragg; Ren Guangyu; Jancis Robinson; Barnaby Rogerson; Arundhati Roy; Catherine Sampson; Mishi Saran; John Ralston Saul; Arlette Schleifer; Desmond Sim; Richard Smith; Erin Stone; Amy Tan; Tan Twan Eng; Chad Taylor; Madeleine Thien; Katherine Thompson; Colin Thubron; Tze Ming Mok; Celestine Vaite; Gore Vidal; Nury Vittachi; Joanna Waley-Cohen; Wang Lili; Wang Xiaoli; Wang Xiaolong; Ian Whybrow; Adam Williams; Simon Winchester; Xin Ran; Namu Erche Yang; Zhang Lijia; Zhu Wen