Authors revealed for the 2010 Shanghai International Literary Festival

One of the biggest events in Shanghai's literary calendar is the Shanghai International Literary Festival, and come March 5 (it runs through March 21) bookworms around the city will be fighting for space at Glamour Bar to hear what the visiting 47 authors have to say.

We list all of the authors below, but once tickets go on sale be on the lookout for Leslie Chang (who wrote ‘Factory Girls,’ a look inside the world of the young women working on assembly lines in the south China factory city of Dongguan), Linda Jaivin (erotic novelist), Andrew Field (because his upcoming book ‘Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954’ just sounds fascinating), Ram Guha (named one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by 'Foreign Policy'), Tess Johnston (because we’re Shanghai history addicts) and Su Tong (winner of the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize).

1. Tash Aw 'The Harmony Silk Factory' (Whitbread First Novel award, Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel)
2. Terry Bennett 'The History of Photography in Chin'
3. Sarah Brennan [children] 'Tale of Oswald Ox,' 'Run Run Rat,' 'Chester Choi' and 'The Dragon'
4. Andre Brink 'A Dry White Season, Other Lives' (2008) and numerous other novels
5. Lars Bukdahl [Danish poet] 'Alphabets from Pluto' 
6. Dario Castagno 'Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide,' 'A Day in Tuscany: More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide,' 'Too Much Tuscan Wine'
7. Leslie Chang 'Factory Girls'
8. Yuan Tsung Chen 'Return to the Middle Kingdom: One Family, Three Revolutionaries and the Birth of Modern China'
9. Jose Dalisay 'Soledad’s Sister' (2008)
10. Junot Diaz 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' (Pulitzer), 'Drown'
11. Charles Emmerson [geopolitics] 'The Future of the Arctic'
12. Andrew Field 'Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954' (2010)
13. Shamini Flint Inspector Singh series -- 'A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder,' 'Bali Conspiracy Most Foul' and chidren’s series
14. Morris Gleitzman [children] 'Toad Surprise,' 'Give Peas a Chance,' and many more
15. David Grossman 'The Yellow Wind' (nonfiction study of Palestinans in Israeli occupied Gaza and West Bank), 'Someone to Run with,' 'Her Body Knows' (fiction)
16. Ram Guha 'India After Gandhi'
17. Peter Hessler 'River Town,' Oracle Bones,' 'Driving Lessons' (2010)
18. Moses Isegawa 'Abyssian Chronicles,' 'Cobra’s Impunity'
19. Linda Jaivin [historic fiction] 'A Most Immoral Woman' (a fictionalized account of George Morrisson’s affair with Mae Perkins)
20. Ritta Jalonen [teenage fiction] 'The Nights of the Angels, Girl' and the 'Jackda Tree'
21. Tess Johnston 'Permanently Temporary: From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century' (2010)
22. Hitomi Kanehara 'Snakes & Earrings,' 'Ash Baby Onetime'
23. Hyejin Kim Jia 'A Novel of North Korea'
24. Rachel Kushner 'Telex from Cuba'
25. Mandla Langa 'Lost Colours of the Chameleon' (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, Africa)
26. David Leffman 'Rough Guides China' author
27. Margaret Read [children] 'MacDonald' 
28. Garry Marchant 'The Peace Correspondent: A journalist’s tales of travels around Asia'
29. Francesca Marciano 'Cassa Rossa,' 'The End of Manners' as well as screenplays for a number of films
30. Frank Moorhouse Palais des Nations Trilogy -- 'Grand Days,' 'Dark Palace' (winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award), 'Martini: A Memoir'
31. Mo Zhi Hong 'The Year of the Shanghai Shark' (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book)
32. Les Murray [poet] 'The Biplane Houses'
33. Chen Murong 'Leave Me Alone Chengdu' (Gritty novel about young Chinese in 1990s Chengdu)
34. Elizabeth O’Donoghue Irish performance poet
35. Kristin Bair O’Keeffe 'Thirsty'
36. James Palmer 'The Bloody White Baron '
37. Emily Perkins 'Novel About My Wife'
38. Schatz + Blackrose [children’s]
39. Asne Sierestad 'The Bookseller of Kabul'
40. Sjön 'The Blue Fox' (nominated for independent Foreign Fiction award)
41. Su Tong 'Rice,' 'Wives and Concubines' (adapted to 'Raise the Red Lantern'), 'My Life as Emperor,' 'The Boat to Redemption' (not yet published, 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize)
42. Alice Pung 'Unpolished Gem' (Young Cambodian-Chinese migrant’s coming-of-age memoir)
43. Billy Ramsell [Irish poet] 'Complicated Pleasures'
44. Alan Titley 'Beyond the Knacker’s Yard'
45. Donata & Christoph Valentien 'Shanghai’s New Botanic Garden'
46. Nury Vittachi 'Feng Shui Detective series'
47. Alexis Wright 'Carpentaria'