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Hong Kong’s Literary Follies

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Jul 24, 2007
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The old aphorism that fact turns out to be stranger than fiction is pretty shopworn, but the recent goings on within the small world of the Hong Kong literati certainly seem to bear out the truth of the cliché.

Earlier this year, local author Nury Vittachi was spectacularly ousted from the organizing team of the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festi…

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