Leading writers from China, Finland and Malta will discuss their work, their writing lives, their sources of inspiration from their own country and beyond, and the role they see literature playing in the modern era around the world. Participating in this discussion are best-selling novelist Jussi Valtonen from Finland; Pierre Mejlak from Malta, a winner European Union Prize for Literature; and from China, award-winning writer Sun Pin, and novelist, short story writer and academic Wang Weilan. In conversation with author and literary academic Xie Youshun.