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WEDNESDAY, 16TH JANUARY 2008
LOCATION: A bus will depart from outside Amangalla in Galle Fort at 8.15am sharp.
TIME: 8.30am – 5.00pm
| Bawa and Beyond |
8.15am - 5.00pm |
Event Code: 001
US$50.00 / SLR5,000.00
Limited Tickets.
Price includes lunch.
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Come & join world renowned architect Channa Daswatte on a tour from Galle to Tangalle visiting a wide variety of Sri Lankan architecture from Geoffrey Bawa to Valentine Gunesekara and beyond!
Tour Guide: Channa Daswatte
Location: A bus will depart from outside Amangalla in Galle Fort at 8.15am sharp.
In association with Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau
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Thursday, 17th January 2008
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 9.30am – 10.30am
| A Remarkable History! |
9.30am – 10.30am |
Event Code: 002
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00
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Featuring William Dalrymple
The award winning author will discuss his most recent book The Last Mughal, taking you on a journey through the Indian rebellion of 1857–8 and the deposition of the last Mughal Emperor.
Location: Hall de Galle |
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 9.30am – 10.30am
| Politically Incorrect ! |
9.30am – 10.30am |
Event Code: 003
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00
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Featuring Shobhaa Dé
Glamorous and provocative writer Shobhaa Dé shares with us an insight into her risqué novels and her writing journey.
Moderator: Deepika Shetty
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| English in Sri Lanka |
11.00am -12.00pm |
Event Code: 004
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00
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Michael Meyler & Richard Boyle
Hear these experts discuss the use of the English language and its nuances in contemporary Sri Lankan culture and writing.
Moderator: Simon Winchester
Sponsored by Sri Lanka Telecom
Location: Hall de Galle
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| The Gratiaen: Before & After |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 005
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Punyakante Wijenaike, Neil Fernandopulle & Seneka Abeyratne
A selection of Gratiaen Award winners discuss the impact of this significant award initiated by Michael Ondaatje on their writing and their lives.
Moderator: Ashok Ferrey
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
| From Page to Stage |
2.00pm – 3.00pm |
Event Code: 009
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Seneka Abeyratne, Indu Dharmasena, Tracy Holsinger, Delon Weerasinghe and other Sri Lankan playwrights and directors discuss the challenges of writing and performing for an audience versus simply writing for a reader.
Moderator: Sunila Galappatti
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 3.15pm – 4.15pm
| Sindbad the Sailor |
3.15pm – 4.15pm |
Event Code: 010
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Adventurer and travel writer Tim Severin and author researcher Richard Boyle discuss their fascination with Sindbad’s voyages.
Moderator: Simon Winchester
Sponsored by Sri Lanka Ports Authority
Location: Hall de Galle |
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LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
| The Role of the Publisher |
4.30pm – 5.30pm |
Event Code: 013
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Get the inside scoop from global and
Sri Lankan publishing houses on the process: finding talent, editing, marketing and distributing.
Alexandra Pringle – Bloomsbury, UK
Chiki Sarkar - Random House, India
Sam Perera - PH Books, Sri Lanka
Simon Prosser - Hamish Hamilton & Penguin, UK
Moderator: Nury Vittachi
Sponsored by Printcare
Location: The Hall de Galle |
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
| Writing: The Pain & The Pleasure |
4.30pm – 5.30pm |
Event Code: 014
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Join emerging writers Indran Amirthanayagam, Julian West and Randy Boyagoda discuss what motivates people to write and what it takes to make the distance. The trials and tribulations of getting your first book published.
Moderator: Deepika Shetty
Sponsored by The New Asia Writing Partnership
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
FRIDAY, 18TH JANUARY 2008
LOCATION: Hall de Galle
TIME: 9.30am – 10.30am
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 9.30am – 10.30am
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| The Writing Life |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 019
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Join two of Sri Lanka’s most prominent and provocative story tellers Carl Muller and Yasmine Gooneratne in conversation with Nury Vittachi
Sponsored by Sri Lanka Telecom
Location: The Hall de Galle |
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| Climate Change & Tourism: The Dilemma |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 020
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Learn about the myths and realities of Climate Change. Explore Sri Lanka’s position from tourism to conservation.
Featuring Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Susan Elderkin, Rory Spowers, Kim Kindersley & Ranil Senanayake.
In association with Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
An Evil Cradling |
2.00pm – 3.00pm |
Event Code: 030
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Brian Keenan, international travel writer and author shares his intimate account of being held hostage for five years in Lebanon.
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 3.15pm – 4.15pm
Wild Swans: Life in Exile |
3.15pm – 4.15pm |
Event Code: 031
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00
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Hear Jung Chang in conversation with her husband historian Jon Halliday about her compelling family history and how it interweaves with China’s journey.
Location: The Hall de Galle |
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 3.15pm – 4.15pm
LOCATION: Hall de Galle
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
The Edge of Prejudice |
4.30pm – 5.30pm |
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Event Code: 034
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00
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Explore the literary treatment of prejudice (racial, sexual, cultural) with contemporary writers Kamila Shamsie, Channa Wickremesekera and Shyam Selvadurai..
Moderator: Rama Mani
Location: Hall de Galle |
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
| Whose Narrative is it Anyway? |
4.30pm – 5.30pm |
Event Code: 035
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Explore the increasingly multicultural nature of writing and the ongoing influence of globalisation, imperialism and postcolonialism with Michael Roberts, Randy Boyagoda, and John Mateer.
Moderator: Nury Vittachi
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort |
SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY 2008
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 9.30am – 10.30am
| The Meaning of Everything |
9.30am – 10.30am |
Event Code: 040
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Featuring Simon Winchester and Hilali Noordeen
A range of eclectic subjects fascinate this well-respected journalist and writer. Hear many stories including the story of the Oxford English Dictionary, a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument erected to a living language.
Location: The Hall de Galle |
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 9.30pm – 10.30pm
LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| A Good Detective and a Good Woman |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 042
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Featuring Alexander McCall Smith
An in-depth conversation with author of the much feted No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Find out how Precious Ramotswe changed the life of an established author of forty books and distinguished professor of medical law.
Location: The Hall de Galle
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 11.00am – 12.00pm
| Fact or Fiction |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 043
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Kamila Shamsie, John Zubrzycki, Sandra Hoffmann and Julian West
Some are novelists, some are journalists some are both. Hear them discuss their motivations and the gulf or the bridge between fact and fiction.
Moderator: William Dalrymple
Sponsored by Wijeya Newspapers Ltd
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
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LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
| Funny Boy Talks to Funny Man |
2.00pm – 3.00pm |
Event Code: 052
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Come and listen to Shyam Selvadurai, groundbreaking author of Sri Lanka’s first gay novel Funny Boy in conversation with Ashok Ferrey, as they discuss love, life and writing.
Location: The Hall de Galle
Sponsored by Emirates
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
| Bloggers: Can they be taken seriously? |
2.00pm – 3.00pm |
Event Code: 053
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Indi Samarajiva, Deepika Shetty, Nazreen Sansoni, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Ravana and
Iresha Dilhani.
Do blogs today better capture who we are and what we imagine ourselves to be?
This panel will bring together leading and award winning bloggers and writers to explore these issues in a provocative and engaging discussion.
Moderator: Nury Vittachi
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
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LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 3.15pm – 4.15pm
LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 3.15pm – 4.15pm
| The Last Nizam: From Riches to Rags |
3.15pm – 4.15pm |
Event Code: 055
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Ever heard of the Indian Prince who lost it all in the Australian outback? Get ready for a history lesson like no other in this evocative story by award-winning journalist John Zubrzycki.
Moderator: William Dalrymple
Location: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
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LOCATION: The Hall de Galle
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
| A Suitable Novel |
4.30pm – 5.30pm |
Event Code: 056
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Vikram Seth author of the epic
best-selling novel of postcolonial India, A Suitable Boy, in conversation with journalist, blogger and news producer Deepika Shetty.
Location: The Hall de Galle
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LOCATION: Maritime Museum, Galle Fort
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
SUNDAY, 20TH JANUARY
LOCATION : The Lighthouse Hotel, Galle
TIME : 9.30am – 3.00pm
| Can Language Provide a Bridge to Peace? |
9.30am – 10.30am |
Event Code: 060
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Listen to this eminent group discussing how effectively the written and spoken word may be used as a mechanism for peace.
Rajiva Wijesinha, A. Santhan, Neloufer de Mel, Sanjana Hattotuwa & Jean Arasanayagam
Moderator: Rama Mani
Sponsored by Sri Lanka Telecom
Location: The Eddystone Hall, The Lighthouse Hotel
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LOCATION : The Eddystone Hall, The Lighthouse Hotel
TIME : 11.00am – 12.00pm
| The Nature of the American Empire |
11.00am – 12.00pm |
Event Code: 061
Price: US$8.00 / SLR800.00
Students: SLR150.00 |
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Join world renowned author and polemicist Gore Vidal in conversation with Simon Winchester.
Location: The Eddystone Hall, The Lighthouse Hotel
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| The Festival programme is subject to change without notice. Refer to Terms & Conditions. |
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