The winner for this week's
lightning round giveaway for tickets to tomorrow's two events at the Bookworm International Literary Festival is registered GoChengdoo user olivias.
Congratulations to our winner and thanks to everyone who played. Keep an eye out GoChengdoo.com for more Literary Festival tickets this month!
Alexis Wright (left) and Alice Pung (right) both appear at the Bookworm on Saturday.
Here it is: the decisive moment. This is the moment when you will decide whether you will try to win a pair of tickets to
both events at the
Bookworm International Literary Festival this Saturday (at 5:00 and 7:30, respectively). We won't ask you to ask us any
Jeopardy questions or do research on
Alice Pung and
Alexis Wright, the speakers at the two events. All that is required is that you add three reviews to the gochengdoo.com listings, and be the first person to send us an email
within 24 hours of the appearance of this post.
The Details
Post reviews of three separate listings. Then send an email to chengdoo.events [at] gmail [dot] com with your name,
registered GoChengdoo username, and mobile number, no later than Friday, March 12, at 9 a.m.
The winner will be contacted via email and SMS by Friday evening with instructions on how to claim the prize.
Photo credits Alexis Wright and Alice Pung
The question to the clues for last week's
Bookworm International Literary Festival mystery author is ...
"Who is Harvey Thomlinson?"
Thomlinson is the founder of Make Do Studios, an organization based in Hong Kong that translates contemporary Chinese fiction into English. He translated
Leave Me Alone, Chengdu by Murong Xuecun. Thomlinson and Murong appeared together at the Bookworm on March 6.
And the winner for last week's
pair of Bookworm International Literary Festival tickets is registered GoChengdoo user Celia.
Congratulations to our winner and thanks to everyone who played. Keep watching GoChengdoo.com for your chance to win a pair of Literary Festival tickets this week!
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It's time for yet another round of the
Jeopardy style quiz for the
Bookworm International Literary Festival ticket giveaway!
This week's clues
1. He founded an organization devoted to translating and promoting contemporary Chinese fiction.
2. Before this, he was the Asia Manager for a U.S. Forecasting Company in Hong Kong.
3. He studied Chinese at Capital Normal University in Beijing, where he plays electric violin in a rock band.
Can you identify this author?
How it works
We give you three clues. You send us the right answer,
in the form of a question, no later than 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 6, 2010, along with your name,
registered GoChengdoo username, and mobile number. Send all of this to chengdoo.events [at] gmail [dot] com.
The winner will be contacted via email and SMS by Sunday, March 7 with instructions on how to claim the prize, and the mystery author will be revealed next week.
Started in 2004, Electronic Lounge is one of Chengdu's pioneering underground electronic-music parties. Birthed in bars that are now longer history, the lounge carries on today without the regularity of its early days but with the same energy-charged, bass-heavy mixes of drum n bass, dub, dubstep, and electrotrash.
German tag-team DJ duo Joe and Marty Be host Electronic Lounge this Saturday at Panda Club. Entrance is RMB15, but you can get in for free.
Here's how
1.
Click here to register for GoChengdoo.com (it's free) if you haven't already done so.
2.
Send your name, registered GoChengdoo username, and your mobile phone number with the message "Electronic Lounge Giveaway" no later than 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
3. That's it! The winner will be contacted via e-mail and SMS on Friday, March 5 with instructions on how to claim the prize.
Electronic Lounge with DJs Joe and Marty Be at Panda Club, Saturday, March 6, 10 p.m. Entrance: 15 yuan
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The winner for this week's
pair of Bookworm International Literary Festival tickets is registered GoChengdoo user misubi.
Congratulations to our winner and thanks to everyone who played. Keep watching GoChengdoo.com for more great giveaways this month!
And the question to the clues for last week's
Bookworm International Literary Festival mystery author is ...
"Who is Alexis Wright?"
Wright is the author of the
Grog Wars and the prize-winning novel
Carpenteria, and will be speaking at the Bookworm on March 13.
Be sure to watch GoChengdoo for more Literary Festival trivia and giveaways in the coming weeks!
If you missed last week's Bookworm Literary Festival
ticket-giveaway opportunity, don't fret ... there are more!
Here are the clues for this week's mystery author as we anticipate beginning of the
Bookworm International Literary Festival:
This week's clues
1. She is a land-rights activist who has published an anthology of the history of the land rights movement in her home country.
2. Her last novel won the Miles Franklin Award and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction after being published by an independent publisher.
3. She is a member of the Waanyi nation.
Can you identify this author?
How it works
We give you three clues. You send us the right answer,
in the form of a question, no later than 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, 2010, along with your name,
registered GoChengdoo username, and mobile number. Send all of this to chengdoo.events [at] gmail [dot] com.
The winner will be contacted via email and SMS by Sunday, February 28 with instructions on how to claim the prize, and the mystery author will be revealed next week.
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