HKILF: An Evening with David Sedaris
Event Information
Description
Hong Kong International Literary Festival is proud to host bestselling author and master of satire David Sedaris with our venue partner Asia Society.
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso has been nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category.
Save the date for January 10th 2020 at 7:30 p.m for an hour long reading of exciting, new and unpublished material, followed by a Q&A and book signing session.
There is no assigned seating for this event.
Please note that photos or videos of David Sedaris are prohibited at all times during this event.
The event is planned as follows:
6:45pm Registration/Pre-event Book Signing
7:30pm An Evening with David Sedaris
8:30pm Q&A
9:00pm Book sales and Book Signing
During the book signing, you will be handed post-its for you to write your name as you wish David to write it on the title page.
Organiser Hong Kong International Literary Festival Ltd
Organiser of HKILF: An Evening with David Sedaris
The Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF), founded in 2000, is an annual event held over ten days in autumn, featuring established and emerging writers from around the world in a programme that includes discussions, literary lunches and dinners, workshops, lectures, debates, book signings, and readings.
The stellar list of past HKILF authors includes literary luminaries such as Seamus Heaney, Louis de Bernières, Colm Tóibín, Jung Chang, and Yann Martel.
HKILF is organized and coordinated by Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited, a non-profit, charitable literary arts organization which also manages the annual Young Readers Festival.
HKILF brings writers and book lovers together at events that allow them to share ideas.
Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to attract not just the best authors and thinkers in Asia, but globally. The city that built itself on the exchange of goods, is now also the region’s focal point for the exchange of ideas.
Literature makes us think, it gives us new perspectives. HKILF starts conversations that build a better society.
