March 18, 12pm

Madhur Jaffrey

What Ken Hom is to Chinese cooking so Jaffrey is to Indian cooking. Her cookbooks and TV series have encouraged many to have a go at home.

Jaffrey has even developed a successful line of sauces bearing her name - and she is an award-winning actress. She recently appeared on Broadway in the show "Bombay Dreams." Her latest book is a memoir "Climbing the Mango Trees" about her childhood in New Delhi.

March 11, 2pm

Schedule for Shanghai Literary Festival

March 10

10am, "Love and Erotica in French and Chinese Poetry" (Qiu Xiaolong and Tang Loaec)

12pm, "Theater and Scriptwriting: An Asia-Pacific Perspective" (Wang Xiaoli and Katherine Thomson)

2pm, "From Shanghai to Hong Kong: Women's Friendship and Writing" (Susanna Hoe)

4pm, "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend" (Graham Hodges)

6pm, Headline session: Gore Vidal (in conversation with Bob Carr)

March 11

10am, "Inspector Chen: The Shanghai Story" (Qiu Xiaolong)

12pm, Literary lunch: "The Rise of India" (Pankaj Mishra)

2pm, Headline session: Madhur Jaffrey

4pm, New Writing from Ireland

Claire Kilroy: The Last of the Old Irish

Mike McCormack: The Rural Postmodern

4pm, "Namu: Wisdom From the Land of the Daughters" (Yang Erche Namu)

March 15

6pm, Headline session: Kiran Desai

March 17

10am, "Stranger in a Strange Land: On Writing in a Foreign Land" (Guo Xiaolu)

12pm, "Surviving Iraq: High Tea in Mosul and the Human Face of Iraqi Suffering" (Lynne O'Donnell)

12pm, Shanghai writers on Shanghai writing (in Mandarin, no translation)

2pm, "La Verite de l'autre" (in French, no translation)

4pm, Headline session: John Ralston-Saul

March 18

9:45am, "Abracadabra! Books, Writing and the Magic of It All" (Gail Carson Levine)

10am, "Passion: Themes of Love, Family and Relationships" (Celestine Vaite)

12pm, Headline session: Jan Morris (in conversation with Simon Winchester)

2pm, Fiction Writing Master Class with Romesh Gunasekera

2pm, "Poetry from Two Worlds: American Poet Daniel Hall and Chinese Poet" (Wang Xiaolong, translated by Qiu Xiaolong)

4pm, "Beasts of No Nation" (Uzodinma Iwaela)

4pm, Headline session: Dai Sijie

6pm, "The Pleasures of a Wandering Life" (Simon Winchester)

March 23

6pm, Headline session: Amy Tan (Musings on Joy, Luck and Fate)

March 24

10am, "The Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer"

12pm, Literary lunch with Amy Tan: "The Journey to Becoming a Writer"

2pm, "Writing China: Stories, Real and Otherwise"

4pm, "Everything New is Free'' (Peter Alatsas)

March 25

10am, "Die Tradition der Singvogelhaltung in Beijing - eine literarische Reise ins alte Peking" ("The Birds of Beijing - A Journey into Old Beijing," in German, no translation)

12pm, "Getting It Published" (Jo Lusby, Tim Murray, Benython Oldfield)

2pm, "The Post-Amy Tan Generation" (Tze Ming Mok)

4pm, "The Bund: A Chinese Perspective" (Chen Danyan)

6pm, "The Bund: A Chinese and Western Perspective" (Peter Hibbard)

Tickets: 50 yuan (except for headline sessions); 100 yuan for both (includes a drink); 200 yuan (literary lunch); 500 yuan for a 12-session pass (includes 10 general sessions and two headline sessions); half price for students

Tel: 6350-9988 (10am-6pm to book, tickets must be collected two days in advance of the session, maximum four tickets per person per event; tickets can also be collected at M on the Bund, 10am-10pm)

Address: 7/F, 20 Guangdong Rd

See www.m-restaurantgroup.com for more details

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