The 6^th Script Road - Macau Literary Festival - held from 4^th to 19^th March, 2017 - will feature a number of internationally acclaimed writers such as award-winning Chinese writer Yu Hua, together with Brian Castro, one of the most imaginative novelists in Australia, as well as 2016 Man Booker Prize finalists Canadian Madeleine Thien and Scotsman Graeme Macrae Burnet. The Festival will feature exhibitions and film shows as well for the cultural pleasure of residents and visitors. The main venue of the Festival will be the Old Court Building, where a book fair will remain open throughout the event.

Feted literary guests at Festival

The 2017 Script Road - Macau Literary Festival guest list also includes iconic contemporary children's literature author from China Qin Wenjun, along with Zhang Yueran, in addition to a famous Chinese poet and also a prominent critic of music, art and literature, Ouyang Jianghe. From Hong Kong the Festival is bringing to Macao Liu Waitong, a poet, writer and photographer, along with the award-winning author of 'So Black', Dorothy Tse, and Indonesian-Chinese author Xu Xi. Taiwan writers participating in the Festival include author of books of fiction and poetry regularly featured in Taiwan's top-ten literature lists, Lo Yi-Chin, a 'Top ten Taiwan regional contemporary poet', Chen Li, and renowned novelist Wang Cong-wei.

Born in Hong Kong of Portuguese, Chinese and English descent Australian novelist and essayist Brian Castro plus Goan writer, poet and essayist Jessica Faleiro, Kurdish author Ciwanmerd Kulek and Korean writer Krys Lee will share their writing experiences at the Festival. Meanwhile, Portuguese poet, composer and singer Sérgio Godinho - one of his country's most influential voices and musicians of the past 40 years - will launch his first novel, 'A Heart Too Perfect', at the Macau Literary Festival. Writers from France, Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand, among other countries, will also present their work at the Festival.

Professor, biographer and writer José Manuel Simões, Portuguese literature and post-colonial studies expert Inocência Mata, poet, novelist and columnist Rai Matsu, three-time Macau Literary Award-winner Lawrence Lei, and Executive Editor of Macau Literary Medley Eric Chau represent Macao at the Festival.

Portuguese Language Writers' Summit

The Macau Literary Festival has partnered with the Union of Portuguese-Speaking Capital Cities (UCCLA) to bring the Portuguese-Language Writers' Summit to Macao. Also, in the course of this 6^th edition of The Script Road, a partnership will be unveiled with the brand new Morabeza - Cape Verde Literary Festival, set to inaugurate its debut season at the end of 2017 in Cidade da Praia.

The partnership provides for an author from Macao to participate each year in the literary event in Cape Verde, and vice versa. Cape Verdean writer and current Minister of Culture and Creative Industries Abraão Vicente begins the partnership as this year's emissary to The Script Road.

More visual arts works

In the realm of the Visual Arts, the Macao Literary Festival will hold solo exhibitions by Hong Kong-born Australian author John Young and local talent Wong Ka Long, whose works are inspired by Portuguese/Macao poet Camilo Pessanha. In 2017, the Michel Vaillant BD series celebrates its 60^th anniversary, and numbers of the original prints from the album Rendez-vous à Macao (1983) will be exhibited. On the Performing Arts calendar of this 6^th edition of The Script Road are concerts by renowned Portuguese musician Sérgio Godinho and Taiwanese singer Christine C.C. Hsu.

Clara Law, born in Macao and living in Australia, will screen her documentary 'Letters to Ali' (2004), the story of an Afghan boy seeking asylum Down Under. Producer and screenwriter Eddie Fong also joins the Festival.

For more information about trehe Festival please visit http://thescriptroad.org.