Three-day event will celebrate women’s literature as well as the work of authors from Portuguese-speaking countries.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 9th Macau Literary Festival will be shorter than previous ones, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
Due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the 9th Macau Literature Festival originally scheduled for next month has been postponed.
The director of Macau Literary Festival, Ricardo Pinto, said to local newspaper Hoje Macau that the cancelation of the presence of three writers in the event was decided after an “advise” by the China´s Liaison Office in Macau.
The Macau Literary Festival organisation said that the decision to cancel the participation of writers Jung Chang, Suki Kim and James Church in the event was taken after local authorities said their entry in Macau would not be guaranteed.
The Macau Literary Festival announced today that four writers including Jung Chang and Suki Kim would not attend this year’s edition scheduled to happen from March 10-25.
The 6th edition of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival will kick off on Saturday (4th March) with comic book authors Dick Ng, Filipe Melo, Philippe Graton and Clément Baloup, who will deliver a talk on “Illustrating Words – The Art of Comics”.
Authors from more than 10 different countries will gather at The Macau Literary Festival – The Script Road that will
