Nury Vittachi
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Nury Vittachi on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
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2 October 1958 Ceylon |
| Pen name | Sam Jam, Lai See, Mr.Jam |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Moor |
| Citizenship | Sri Lanka & Hong Kong |
| Notable works | The Feng Shui Detective |
| Spouse | Mary-Lacey Vittachi |
| Children | 3 |
Nury Vittachi (born 2 October 1958 in Ceylon) is a journalist and author based in Hong Kong. His columns are published daily, weekly in a variety of newspapers in Asia as well as on his website. He wrote the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective, published in many languages around the world, as well as non-fiction works and novels for children. He is also noted for his role in founding the Asia Literary Review, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and was the chairman of the judges of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008. Vittachi currently lives in Hong Kong with his English wife Mary-Lacey Vittachi and their three adopted Chinese children, Lexi, Kelci and Jem. His father is the Sri Lankan journalist Tarzie Vittachi; his uncle, the late Dr V.P. Vittachi, was a major shareholder of the biggest conglomerate in Sri Lanka, the Stassen Group.
In 2015 Vittachi began contributing to the Hong Kong Free Press.
Vittachi started his journalism career on the Morning Telegraph in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" (see red envelope) and "Spice Trader" for the South China Morning Post until 1997. Although remembered mainly for humor and affectionate take on cross-cultural clashes, the column was often hardhitting, and regularly received writs.
His abrupt removal at the time of the 1997 change of sovereignty was widely seen as an act of political censorship. Collected editions of the columns under titles such as Only in Hong Kong went through numerous print runs. At the Far Eastern Economic Review, Vittachi ran a similar region-wide column called "Travellers' Tales".
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