The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is one of the peak literary events in the Asian region. In 2006, the Festival was named ‘one of the world’s great book events’ by Conde Nast Traveler and ‘among the top six literary Festivals in the world’ by Harper’s Bazaar.

The 2007 Festival will live up to this reputation with six days of rousing discussions, creative workshops, book launches, luscious literary lunches and dinners, a free children’s program plus poetry, theater, film, music and dance —an exhilarating program in one of the world’s most beautiful settings.

Hong Kong writer, Nury Vittachi, has called the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 'a magical and mystical mix of East and West' and given our choice of theme for 2007, Sekala-Niskala | The Seen & Unseen, you can understand why!

Featuring over 80 writers from 16 different countries, including the winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai; author of Raise the Red Lantern, China’s Su Tong; award-winning Australian author Richard Flanagan; and the ‘enfant terrible’ of Pakistani literature Mohsin Hamid, we hope that this year’s Festival will leave guests and participants with a deeper appreciation of ideas which, at first, seem to separate us, but in fact connect us.

Tickets on-sale from 1 July. The full festival program will be released in early August.

Source: www.ubudwritersfestival.com