Thank you all for making BLF 2012 a roaring success! From authors to volunteers, partners to sponsors, audience members and Friends of the Festival – we hope you all enjoyed the two weeks of books, ideas, poetry, illustration, music, performance, film and more just as much as we did. BLF 2013 will be here before you know it but in the meantime, catch up on any of BLF 2012 events you may have missed with our podcasts, browse through some of our photo galleries and read some of the great interviews from our festival authors, courtesy of The Opposite House.
Until then…happy reading!
Paul French‘s brilliant Midnight in Peking will be adapted to the small screen. Midnight in Peking follows the murder and investigation of British-citizen Pamela Werner in 1037 in Beijing. Kudos Television of London will be developing the book for television. Let the casting speculation begin!
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BLF 2012 author Mara Hvistendahl was named a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for her book Unnatural Selection. Listen to the podcast of Hvistendahl’s BLF 2012 talk at BLF 2012 here. The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction was “awarded to “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton [...]
Full StoryCalling all budding China writers! Here is Mr. Steyngart’s advice for you: FP: What do you recommend a young writer do in China? GS: I’d start in the financial side — young guy or girl, just out of Princeton, gets involved in some sort of private equity thing, learns about the corruption, and at the [...]
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At tonight’s Translation Slam: Sing Me A Song! two translators will go head to head, comparing their English translations of a song by the Chinese folk group Hao Mei Mei (translated: Good Little Sister) and fielding questions from the audience. Hao Mei Mei will also join for a live performance. For those who are unfamiliar [...]
Full StoryA few tickets have just become available for a special Writing Memoir workshop with Tim Clare. Tuesday, March 20. 7:30pm. Tickets available at The Bookworm or call our box office. This workshop will take place at The Village Cafe in The Opposite House.
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BLF attendees have a smorgasbord of events to choose from: book talks and workshops, poetry slams and live music. What some may not realize is that the festival is also involved in a variety of additional projects, including bringing festival authors to Beijing migrant schools and hosting this Wednesday’s Pathlight Night of Literary Exchange. [...]
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In 2011 we launched our Migrant School Outreach Programme, bringing acclaimed international and Chinese authors to schools for migrant children in order to promote literacy and a love of reading among less-advantaged children. This year we are again partnering with Migrant Children’s Foundation (MCF) to bring BLF authors to Beijing’s migrant schools. Here are a [...]
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Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace tells the tragic love story of Mark Casey and Joanne Lynch, childhood neighbors who meet and fall in love in Dublin. Here the writer reflects on perfect happiness, wasted time and 1979 yellow Mercedes Benzes. See Belinda at BLF: Solace, March 16 6 pm with Kjersti Skomsvold in The New Generation, March 1 pm [...]
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Literature is personal. Sometimes, never more so than when you’re adrift in a new place. Juanjo Cardona is a BLF volunteer who recently moved to Beijing from Barcelona. Here he shares his experience reading a familiar book — Catalan author Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin – on unfamiliar ground. See Albert Sánchez Piñol at BLF: Men & Monster [...]
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