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If, like us, you’re one of those people who read The Little Prince when you were a child and since then has always carried a little beautiful melancholy in you, boy, do we have an event that will excite you. The University of Hong Kong has partnered with Alliance Française de Hong Kong to launch ‘The Little Prince and the Pilot’ exhibition.
Hosted in the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), this exhibition commemorates the 80th anniversary of The Little Prince’s first publication in France, and presents a thematic journey through the life of Le Petit Prince’s author, aviator, and artist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Through rare photographs, personal letters, sketches, and more, visitors can explore Saint-Exupéry’s early years and his career as an aviator and wartime pilot – it’s easy to see where his first-person narrator got his sense of adventure and piloting skills from.
The showcase, of course, culminates in the creation of Saint-Exupéry’s most seminal work, featuring original manuscripts, drawings, first editions, and multilingual translations that all trace the evolution and popularity of The Little Prince. Additionally, eight Hong Kong-exclusive, life-sized coloured sculptures inspired by the book will be on display and available for pre-order, so if you’d like to collect a piece of this masterful legacy, here’s your chance.
What makes things even more special is that the great-great-nephew of Saint-Exupéry and representative of the Saint-Exupéry–d’Agay family estate, Adrien Guiraud, will even travel to Hong Kong to mark the opening of this cultural event. ‘The Little Prince and the Pilot’ exhibition will run from June 26 to October 18, at UMAG, 1/F, T. T. Tsui Building, University of Hong Kong. Entry is free, and access is via the ground floor of the Fung Ping Shan Building.
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