The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature

asia_house_logoThe Asia House Festival of Asian Literature is the only festival in the UK dedicated to writing about Asia or Asians from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific.

Now in its 6th year, the 2012 Festival will feature +40 authors writing about India, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iran, Iraq, Burma, Tajikistan, The Middle East and British Asians.

When? 15-31 May, 2012

Where? Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP

Who? William Dalrymple, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Marina Warner, Hanan al Shaykh, Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Hanif, Nikita Lalwani, Zarghuna Kargar, Peter Popham, Kwasi Kwarteng, Romesh Gunesekera, Roshi Fernando, Shehan Karunatilaka, Rani Singh, Madeline Thein, Xanthe Gresham, Shahrukh Husain Shackle, Wafa Tarnowska, Jerome Starkey & more - programme available in March 2012

Festival Director: Adrienne Loftus Parkins

How Much? £10 / £8 concessions / £6 Asia House Friends

Box Office? enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk or 020 7301 5454 - tickets available in March

Festival Website www.festivalofasianliterature.com (now up and running)

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Previous festivals: Monday 11 May, 2009 - Friday 22 May, 2009 - Aravind Adiga, Azar Nafisi, Ziauddin Sardar (Balti Britain) and Kenan Malik (Fatwa to Jihad – The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy) , John Man (The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan) and Martin Jacques (When China Rules the World), Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows), Nadeem Aslam ( The Wasted Vigil), and Daniyal Mueenuddin (In Other Rooms, Other Wonders), Tahmima Anam, Frank Gardner, David Loyn, Patrick Cockburn, Christina Lamb, Nirmalya Kumar, Hardeep Singh Kohli -See Programme below

 

2009 Program

  • 2009 Program

    • 7 April - Aravind Adiga - White Tiger

    • 21 April - Azar Nafisi - Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories

    • 7 May - Tash Aw – Map of the Invisible World – Book Launch

    • 9 May - Children’s Event: A Barefoot Book of Indian Tales

    • 11 May - Opening Night: An Evening of Music and Literature with Amit Chaudhuri (The Immortals), Pankaj Mishra, Sir Mark Tully and music by Amit himself

    • 12 May -‘Malik vs. Sardar – The UK/Asia Debate’- Ziauddin Sardar (Balti Britain) and Kenan Malik (Fatwa to Jihad – The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy)

    • 13 May - Alice Albinia – Empires of the Indus

    • 14 May - China in the 21st Century - John Man (The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan) and Martin Jacques (When China Rules the World)

    • 16 May - Children’s Event- Guo Yue - Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing

    • 18 May - Politics and Place in Fiction - Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows), Nadeem Aslam ( The Wasted Vigil), and Daniyal Mueenuddin (In Other Rooms, Other Wonders) - moderated by Tahmima Anam

    • 19 May - Frank Gardner -Far Horizons –the BBC security correspondent in conversation with Lyse Doucet about his adventures in Indonesia

    • 20 May - Terrorism & War in Central Asia - Panel Discussion David Loyn Patrick Cockburn Christina Lamb -with BBC Foreign Affairs Editor John Simpson

    • 21 May - Nirmalya Kumar – India’s Global Powerhouses – How They are Taking on the World

    • 22 May - Hardeep Singh Kohli - Indian Takeaway – One Man’s Attempt to Cook His Way Home

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