RTHK：2007 Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Namu Yang is from the Moso ethnic group, a matriarchal society near Burma. She has written many books in China which blend traditional life among the Moso with advice for women on empowerment.

Born in England, Hoe has spent half her life abroad in Kenya, Switzerland, Italy and Papua New Guinea, writing about women's history, and working for women's rights groups .

Was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at Beijing Film Academy and has worked as a screenwriter and film teacher as well as writing many books in Chinese.

For decades she wrote songs to order for British children's TV but one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", was turned into a book and thus her began her career as a children's author.

Tahitian Celestine Vaite writes powerfully of her home country in her novels "Breadfruit and Frangipani". Sri Lankan born Romesh Gunesekera, who lived in the Philippines before settling in England and writes colourfully about these countries had his bo...

RTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.

RTHK presents and hosted by Sarah Passmore.

A Hong Kong native who has written short stories and essays as well as six novels, the most recent being "Overleaf Hong Kong".

The foreign-correspondent turned author has had great success with a string of non-fiction books, including "The Professor and the Madman", "Krakatoa".

Author of "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife". She believes her grandmother's ghost has played a vital role in her success.