Started in 2009, IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. In its ten-year anniversary in November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Ana Ristovi? (Serbia), born in Belgrade, has published nine books of poetry and is the recipient of numerous poetry awards including Hubert Burda Preis (an award for young European poets in Germany), and two of the most important poetry prizes in Serbia: Disova nagrada (2014) and Desanka Maksimovi? Prize (2018).
