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Diversity, enthusiasm … dentistry: Hong Kong literary festival lauded as one of the world’s best by authors

Nothing, it seemed, could stop the literary-festival snowball: a permanently rolling, swelling agglomeration of 400 members and counting, now with its own global association. This year, however, festivals great and small have found that they can be stopped by an invisible adversary – or obliged to adapt to Covid-19 to ensure the show goes on. Approaching its 20th incarnation, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF) long ago established itself among the worldwide elite…

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