Her father was tortured and her mother was made to kneel on broken glass. Jung Chang, the author of the global sensation Wild Swans , which at the last count has sold 13 million copies, talked with passion and humanity about human rights during the Cultural Revolution in China at the first ever Budapest Hay Festival this past weekend. Hay Literary Festival for more than a year, helping it grow from its origins in Wales into an international organisation that now hosts festivals around the globe. This was the first festival ever held in Central Europe. Mobutu Sese Sosuku , under a hairdryer at a salon in Hong Kong, to persuade him to give details of his friendship with Mao Tse-tung . She also revealed how Imelda Marcos had a soft spot for Richard Nixon .Bob Geldof . He pointed to strong growth rates in Africa and warned policy makers in Europe and the United States that they ignored the economic potential of Africa, driven in large part by the opening up of the Internet. Other speakers at the two festival included Tibor Fischer , the Hungarian-born writer whose parents, both basketball players, fled the country after the Soviet suppression of the 1956 uprising, and Nigerian author Ben Okri .Big Tent concept to a Hay audience at this year’s event , opening on May 31.Posted by Richard Schuster, Communications Manager, Google, Hungary
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