Sunday, February 18, 2007

WRITERS FESTS: PICTURE SPEAK

SINGAPORE WRITERS FESTIVAL, August 2005:
With Luxmi Pamuntjak & Suhayl Saadi




UBUD WRITERS FESTIVAL, September/October 2005:
With Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje, Festival Director, Janet de Neefe and author Nury Vittachi

Moderating the one on one with Michael Ondaatje

Passages From India with Amitav Ghosh and Randhir Khare


BYRON BAY WRITERS FESTIVAL, August 2006
Asian Literature Panel featuring Jane Camens, Richard Oh, Ketut Yuliarsa, Nury Vittachi and yours truly

Moderating the session with Nury Vittachi and Sabine Amoore-Pinon


UBUD WRITERS FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2006:
With Anita Desai, Meira Chand and Shalini Akhil


With Tarun Tejpal, Kunal Basu and Elmo Jayawardena


Literary Lunch with the entertaining Foreign Correspondents - Eric Campbell and Christopher Kremmer


A Conversation with the authority on food - Madhur Jaffrey


Going behind the scenes with Festival Directors Janet de Neefe (Ubud), Jill Eddington (Byron Bay), Nury Vittachi (Hong Kong)


GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL, January 2007:
The Writing Workshop


The Spotlight on Kiran Desai (pity the flash didn't work for this one!)


Finally, happy writers and festival directors all....
Romesh Gunesekera, Janet de Neefe, Geoffrey Dobbs, Kiran Desai and Suketu Mehta


UBUD WRITERS FESTIVAL, September 2007:
They don't make them any nicer than her or her mother....






Literary Lunch with Richard Flanagan & Adib Khan





Never a dull moment when Manuka and Nury are around