COFFEE TALK | Across Borders, Belief and Exile with Lawrence Osborne

Name: COFFEE TALK | Across Borders, Belief and Exile with Lawrence Osborne
Start: 2026-03-04T15:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-03-04T16:00:00+08:00
Location: Soho House Hong Kong

Schedule

Wed Mar 04 2026 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Soho House Hong Kong | Hong Kong, HK

Join Lawrence Osborne for a conversation on displacement, belonging, and the uneasy encounters between East and West.
About this Event

Across Borders, Belief and Exile with Lawrence Osborne

Speaker: Lawrence Osborne

Moderator: Raquel Carvalho

Date: March 4, Wed

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue: Soho House - Blue Room

Address: 33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Price: HKD398 (includes a cup of hot beverage)

Language: English

Format: Coffee Talk

Description:
Lawrence Osborne is one of today’s most incisive writers on displacement, faith, and the uneasy encounters between East and West. Best known for The Forgiven, Beautiful Animals, and The Ballad of a Small Player (recently adapted into a Netflix film set in Hong Kong), Osborne’s fiction and essays explore the moral fault lines of privilege, risk and belonging in an increasingly fragmented world. Drawing on years living across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, he examines what it means culturally, spiritually, and emotionally to be an outsider. In this conversation, Osborne reflects on writing place as character, the lingering afterlives of empire, and Hong Kong as rendered in On Java Road, a novel attuned to chance, intimacy, and exile.

About the Speaker:

Lawrence Osborne

Lawrence Osborne is the author of eight novels, a collection of short stories, and three works of non-fiction. Two of his novels, The Forgiven and The Ballad of a Small Player, have been turned into major Hollywood films. He was, for some years, a journalist with The New York Times and is now the co-founder of the film production company, Java Road, based in London, Tokyo and Bangkok, where he currently resides.

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