Literature Festival highlights regional narratives

The “Bangkok Literature Festival” returns with a platform to spotlight Southeast Asia in the literary world, at Neilson Hays Library, Surawong Road, on Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 6pm.

It will also take place in the library’s surrounding neighbourhood including the British Club, Bangkok Marriott Hotel The Surawongse, with special events at Chakrabongse Villas, and The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon.

This second edition invites everyone to embark on a journey through the pages of life and meet more than 30 internationally-acclaimed authors.

They include Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other; Will Schwalbe, the New York Times best-selling author of The End Of Your Life Book Club and We Should Not Be Friends; and Nguyen Phan Que Mai whose The Mountains Sing presents the Vietnam War from…