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ADELAIDE
WRITERS’
WEEK 2020
29 FEB - 5 MAR
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden / Free Entry
ADELAIDE Sun 1 Mar
WRITERS’
WEEK 2020
29 FEB - 5 MAR
Image: Shane Reid
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden / Free Entry
BOOK TENT
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden
Sat 29 Feb 9am � 7.30pm
Sun 1 Mar 9am � 6.30pm
Mon 2 – Thu 6 Mar 9am – 9pm Jo Dyer
DIRECTOR, ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK
There are many things that divide us in Authors, poets, journalists, historians,
our fractured, fractious world but amongst scientists, politicians and academics
Cash and cards accepted. it all we are unavoidably, incontrovertibly from around the world join our annual
All proceeds from the Book Tent united by our humanity. By Being Human. conversation of literature, reportage,
help to fund Adelaide Writers’ Week What does it mean to be human in this poetry and analysis. An expanded Twilight
age of vulnerability, as the earth burns, Talks program, the weekend for Younger
Thank you for your support! communities smoulder, debates scorch? Readers, our celebration of Spoken Word
performance Hear Me Roar! and the mighty
Through the words and minds of great
free program in the heart of the city – all
thinkers, Writers’ Week explores how
return in 2020 as we invite you to the Pioneer
humans engage with each other, with
Women’s Memorial Garden to be part of
technology, with the natural world. It
Australia’s favourite festival of the mind, and
examines the stories we tell ourselves and
consider the singular truth of Being Human.
those we construct. It asks from where
we can draw solace and inspiration. It
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
challenges us to avoid apathy and despair.
It applauds our curiosity in and engagement
with the wider world. It seeks joy and
stimulation in our intellect and each other.
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Welcome The Only Constant
Thu 27 Feb, 6.15pm The Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre
The Hon Steven Marshall MP Judy Potter
PREMIER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA CHAIR, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
Adelaide Writers’ Week has for 60 years been A much-loved and key component of the
offering readers the opportunity to celebrate Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week 2020
leading international, national and local will be the 35th edition since its inception 60
writers, right here in South Australia. Unlike years ago as part of the first Adelaide Festival.
most literary festivals, the main program has
2020 sees the second of Jo Dyer’s programs
always been a free event, accessible
as Director and promises to be a wonderful
to all, and a jewel in the crown of the
follow-up to the success of her first. Jo’s
OPENING EVENT
Adelaide Festival.
innovations to this beloved festival of the Chigozie Obioma, Sanam Maher
I’m once again delighted to see the excellent written word will be extended in 2020 with an & Tyson Yunkaporta
initiative of Live Streaming sessions into expansion of the Twilight Talks series, bringing
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libraries, schools and retirement homes, audiences into the wonderful relaxed ambience
enabling those who can’t attend at the of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden on
beautiful Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, balmy early-Autumn evenings. In an era characterised by fast-paced fluidity, death of the woman known as Pakistan’s Kim
to watch from a more convenient location. our 2020 Opening Event invites us to reflect Kardashian, Qandeel Baloch.
The Garden remains, as ever, the beating heart
The AUSLAN interpreting of key sessions also on the only constant in a world both unsettled
of Writers’ Week and is a key ingredient in Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, arts critic,
enables our deaf community to fully immerse and unsettling: change. Join three of this year’s
making Adelaide Writers’ Week amongst the raconteur and researcher who belongs to the
themselves in the minds of some of the most fascinating authors as they delve into
greatest literary festivals of the world, adored Apalech Clan in Far North Queensland. Sand
world’s finest writers and thinkers. their individual areas of interest and expertise
by readers and writers alike. Talk is described as a guide to how Indigenous
and offer insight into different times, cultures
One of the great features of Adelaide Writers’ thinking can save the world: Tyson calls it an
It takes great levels of support to make this and countries and the impact on each of the
Week is its ever-popular program for younger adventure into a world of thought experiments
unique cultural event possible and to keep constant change of our fluid times. Named
people which returns in 2020 – with two days conducted by those with unconventional
it free to the public, and we sincerely thank one of 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy
designed especially for younger children as points of view.
our government, corporate and philanthropic magazine, Nigerian-American author Chigozie
well as Young Adult audiences.
partners, especially our rapidly growing Obioma’s latest novel, An Orchestra of
The State Government continues to be the Adelaide Writers’ Week Donor Circle, The Minorities, is his second to be shortlisted
major supporter of Adelaide Writers’ Week Literati, for their immense generosity. for the Booker Prize. INFORMATION TICKETS
which is so important to our community.
I invite you, our audiences from near and far to Sanam Maher is a Pakistani journalist Duration 1 hr $25, Friends $20,
There truly is something for everyone within
join us for six wonderful days when some of the whose book A Woman Like Her explores the Conc $15
its program, so I look forward to seeing you
world’s best writers and thinkers will grapple intersection of gender, class and today’s Access Transaction fees apply
there in 2020.
with great stories, big ideas and the complexity networked world, and its impact on women Auslan interpreted adelaidefestival.com.au
of contemporary life. in Pakistan, via the short life and violent on request BASS 131 246
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Breakfast Festival Celebrating
With Papers Forums 60 Years
2 – 6 Mar & The Star Kitchen & Bar,
Sat 29 Feb – Sun 15, 8am The Star Kitchen & Bar, Adelaide Festival Centre 10 – 13 Mar, 12.30pm Adelaide Festival Centre Sat 29 Feb, 6.15pm West Stage
Join David Marr at The Star Kitchen & To celebrate its 60th birthday, the Adelaide
Bar as he interviews one fabulous Adelaide Festival delivers a literary tribute to the
Festival artist each day. With characteristic iconic event.
wit, insight and all the strengths of a
The stunning souvenir coffee table
good listener, David explores the Festival
book is rich with archival photographs
experience through the eyes of its
of the Adelaide Festival through the
artists, delving into unmissable
years interspersed with over 60 specially
behind-the-scenes conversations.
The perfect start to your Writers’ Week day commissioned essays from artists,
INFORMATION
kicks off at 8am at The Adelaide Festival THE place to be during the Festival lunch audience members, journalists and
Centre’s Star Kitchen & Bar. Duration 1 hr hour! This is a free event open to public. Artistic Directors.
Festival Forums run at 12.30pm from
Join Tom Wright and a panel of informed Access An essential addition to the bookshelves
Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March, then
guests to contemplate the news of the of Adelaide Festival aficionados, this
Tickets Free again from Tuesday 10 March – Fri 13 March.
day and the big issues, with newspapers beautiful keepsake will be launched and
provided by The Advertiser. As our 2017, For more information visit available to purchase at the Adelaide
2018 and 2019 regulars will attest, it’s adelaidefestival.com.au Writers’ Week Book Tent.
a stimulating start to every day of the
Adelaide Festival.
Presenting Partner
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Duration 1 hr Access Tickets Free Duration 1 hr Access Tickets Free
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KIDS’ DAY ON THE
MAINSTAGE AT 9am ! Sat 29 Feb
East Stage 9am East Stage 9.45am 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage
Andy Griffiths Julia Donaldson THE YIELD DAMASCUS A LADDER TO BOB HAWKE: ADDRESSING
AUSTRALIA UK THE SKY THE COMPLETE MODERN
BIOGRAPHY SLAVERY
Martijn Boersma
Two of the biggest stars for the littlest readers ensure Adelaide Tara June Winch Christos Tsiolkas John Boyne Blanche d’Alpuget Justine Nolan
Writers’ Week begins with a bang at 9am, so make sure your
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children or grandchildren don’t miss this exclusive double act!
Join best selling family Join top children's author Julia As Albert Gondiwindi’s “The world is in Picasso wrote Blanche d’Alpuget Does our globalised
favourite Andy Griffiths for Donaldson, her guitar-playing family gathers to mourn darkness”. So begins “Good artists copy, knew Bob Hawke economy rely on the
some interactive treehouse husband Malcolm and friends his death, his returning Christos Tsiolkas’ great artists steal.” intimately – as exploitation of the
fun. There’ll be giant fighting for an out-of-this-world show full granddaughter August extraordinary new If true, the protagonist politician and man. vulnerable? Are we, as
robots, a marshmallow of songs and storytelling. With is forced to confront novel Damascus, a of John Boyne’s This definitive consumers, an intrinsic
machine, jokes and general old favourites and new tales past trauma, both fictional account of the deliciously dark novel, new volume of her part of chains of supply
silliness. Along the way Andy to discover, get ready to enter personal and colonial. chaotic years after the A Ladder to the Sky acclaimed biography and complicity that
will endeavour to answer all the deep dark wood with The But she also discovers crucifixion of Jesus, is a certified genius. provides a complete keep 40 million people
your questions and will also Gruffalo, win a gold star with her Poppy’s last big when Saul becomes Aspiring author Maurice and updated portrait enslaved? Justine Nolan
reveal some of the new our favourite dragon Zog before project, the chronicling Paul, vicious persecutor Swift is handsome, of Hawke’s life – as and Martijn Boersma
levels in the forthcoming you zoom into space with The of his life through the becomes passionate charming and hungry larrikin, unionist, wrote Addressing
130-Storey Treehouse. Smeds and the Smoos. Come language of his people, proselytiser, and in for fame. A chance thinker and leader Modern Slavery to
along and join in the adventure! the Wiradjuri. Tara June oppression is born a cult encounter with – including, for the define and dissect a
Winch burst on the of belief that becomes celebrated novelist first time, Blanche’s phenomenon we think
literary scene with her one of the world’s most Erich Ackermann sees role in it. As Australia of as remote but is
dazzling debut, Swallow powerful religions. him parlay Erich’s trust came to terms with more prevalent than
the Air. Her stunning Linking Christos’ and darkest secret the loss of a beloved at any time in human
full
For theDay new novel, The Yield – remarkable yet disparate into the plot of his first Prime Minister, history. Based on years
Kids’ see sad and angry, wise and body of work is the bestseller. With shades Blanche mourned her of forensic research,
m
prograe 30. uplifting – documents ambition, bold vision of Patricia Highsmith, husband, and found this impressive book is
pag both the power of and uncompromising A Ladder to the Sky solace chronicling his mandatory reading for
Indigenous language, muscularity of his is a savagely comic final chapter: his full anyone committed to
and, uniquely, the writing, all powerfully exploration of art and life post-politics, and ending exploitation
language itself. present in the visceral, morality that asks the joy and love and the scourge of
Chair: Angela Savage vivid world of Damascus. “To whom does a they shared. modern slavery.
Chair: David Marr story belong?” Chair: Sophie Black Chair: Rick Sarre
Supported by the Copyright Chair: Nicole Abadee
Agency Cultural Fund.
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Sat 29 Feb
East Stage 1.15pm West Stage East Stage 2.30pm West Stage East Stage 3.45pm West Stage East Stage 5pm West Stage
AN ORCHESTRA GROWING UP CHERNOBYL: SALT, SAND THE SCIENCE ADELAIDE WHERE TO THE CUT
OF MINORITIES WITH JOHN HISTORY OF AND SAVING OF FATE: FESTIVAL FOR #METOO? OUT GIRL
MARSDEN A TRAGEDY THE WORLD WHY YOUR FUTURE IS AWARDS FOR
MORE PREDICTABLE
THAN YOU THINK LITERATURE Miriam Sved
Chigozie Obioma John Marsden Serhii Plokhy Tyson Yunkaporta Hannah Critchlow Virginia Trioli Bart van Es
NIGERIA/USA AUSTRALIA UKRAINE/USA AUSTRALIA UK AUSTRALIA THE NETHERLANDS/UK
After being shortlisted John Marsden is one Serhii Plokhy’s Baillie In his remarkable Are we really the Be the first to hear Generation F was Pre-war Holland was
for the Booker with of Australia’s most Gifford Award-winning book Sand Talk: masters of our destiny? who has won South Virginia Trioli’s mostly free of anti-
his debut novel, The acclaimed and widely- Chernobyl: History How Indigenous Or is our future Australia’s richest passionate contribution Semitism, but by war’s
Fishermen, Chigozie read authors and the of a Tragedy serves Thinking Can Save hardwired in our brain? and most prestigious to the great First Stone end the majority of
Obioma impressively founder and principal as both history and the World, Tyson In her engrossing literary awards when feminist wars of 1995-6. its Jewish population
did the same with his of two schools. His warning. A masterful Yunkaporta argues we and illuminating the Premier of South In this post #MeToo era, was dead, betrayed
next, An Orchestra latest book, The account of the 1986 must transform our book, Cambridge Australia, The Hon Virginia updates her by ordinary Dutch
of Minorities. In this Art of Growing Up, catastrophe from one thinking to change neuroscientist Hannah Steven Marshall classic text to assess policemen pursuing “daily
tragicomic recasting of distills his forty years’ of the leading historians the earth’s current Critchlow argues that MP announces the what has changed, and duties” while the bulk of
The Odyssey, humble experience of teaching, of our time, Chernobyl’s dangerous trajectory. our behaviours have winners. what has not. Reflecting the population looked
chicken farmer Chinoso writing and engaging achievement is to An accessible been shaped and Winners across the on how the #MeToo away. But some refused
risks all for love, suffering with the minds of document both the introduction to honed by biochemistry, categories of Fiction, movement recalibrated to avert their gaze. Bart
vast and vicious young people into a human and historical complex Aboriginal neurobiology and Non-fiction, Children’s relations between the van Es’ The Cut Out Girl
indignities in his quest personal manifesto, dimensions of this philosophies and the psychology, by natural and Young Adult sexes, Virginia is joined is a moving, confronting,
to win approval from his risking backlash from tragedy, detailing the profound wisdom selection and evolution, Literature, as well as by co-editor of #MeToo: deeply personal account
fiancé’s horrified family. the most sensitive heartbreaking and of the world of the and that we have Poetry and the Jill Stories from the of Lien, one of Holland’s
Narrated by Chinoso’s readership of all – heroic actions of the Dreaming, Sand Talk’s much less free will Blewett Playwright’s Australian movement, Hidden Children: the
chi, or guardian spirit, An parents – with his no- local people in the yarns both delight than we think. Drawing Award, will be Miriam Sved, to discuss story of a brave network
Orchestra of Minorities holds-barred theory on immediate aftermath of and intrigue, a radical vividly from every day announced and the fallout and future of of resistance formed to
audaciously weaves the best way to nurture the meltdown, and its revelatory book that examples,The Science speak on the day. this era-defining shift. keep children safe, but
ancestral knowledge and support our next epic fallout – actual and allows us to reimagine of Fate is a fascinating Chair: Lucia Osborne- which sometimes scarred
through this epic generation of adults. political – for the Soviet our future. voyage into the depths Crowley them along the way.
contemporary tale Chair: Alice Pung Union, and the role it Chair: Tom Griffiths of the human brain. Chair: Tom Wright
of the turmoil of the played in its demise. Chair: Tania Meyer
downtrodden. Chair: Steven Gale 6.15pm West Stage
Chair: Linda Jaivin
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS
Special Event. For more information see page 5.
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Sun 1 Mar
East Stage 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage East Stage 1.15pm West Stage
A WOMAN A UNIVERSE CHINA DIVING INTO A LOT WITH THE WAY LIFE: IMPROVEMENT
LIKE HER: OF SUFFICIENT DREAM GLASS A LITTLE THROUGH SELECTED WRITINGS
THE SHORT LIFE OF SIZE THE WOODS:
QANDEEL BALOCH MUSHROOMING
AND MOURNING
Sanam Maher Miriam Sved Ma Jian Caro Llewellyn Tim Costello Long Litt Woon Tim Flannery Joan Silber
PAKISTAN AUSTRALIA CHINA/UK AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA/NORWAY AUSTRALIA USA
Qandeel Baloch grew Alternating between Ma Jian has been In 2009, Caro Llewellyn Tim Costello is familiar When Long Litt Woon’s This important collection Joan Silber’s latest novel,
up in rural Pakistan in contemporary Australia described as China’s was living her best life, to Australians as a man husband of 32 years from one of the world’s Improvement, had The
a conservative Muslim and a vividly evoked Solzhenitsyn and its Director of the PEN of deep conviction. died suddenly at great environmental Washington Post claim
family, making her an pre-war Europe, Miriam greatest living writer. World Voices Festival As a Baptist minister, work at age 54, the scientists and writers her as America’s own
unlikely social media Sved’s interwoven He lives in exile in in New York, mixing lawyer, anti-gambling world as she knew it draws together writings Alice Munro. A beautifully
star – her country’s narratives are linked London, his books and with the global literati. activist and CEO of ended. Stupefied by from Tim Flannery’s rendered magical
first. In July 2016, the by the compelling and return to his homeland Then one day, whilst World Vision, he has shock and grief, she thirty-year career as mystery ride across
woman dubbed the brilliant Eszter. A young both banned by the jogging in Central Park, been a persuasive force first sought solace an advocate, explorer centuries, cultures and
Pakistani Kim Kardashian Jewish mathematician Chinese government. her legs went numb. for social change and in familiar realms of and author. Covering continents, it poses the
was murdered by her in 1938 Hungary and His latest novel, China She was diagnosed justice. In A Lot with a healing like yoga and terrain as broad questions: Which of our
brother, another victim the irascible newly Dream, co-opts with multiple sclerosis Little, Tim tells his life meditation but found as Tim’s interests choices (intended or
of a misnamed “Honour widowed mother of the rhetoric from Xi two days later. Diving journey – the people it unexpectedly in and expertise, Life: not) have consequences
Killing”. Sanam Maher’s Illy in 2007 Sydney, Jinping’s Chinese into Glass tells the that shaped him, the mushrooming. The Way Selected Writings is an over time? How fixable
account of Qandeel’s Eszter is based on Dream speech of glittering before and events that influenced Through the Woods is impressive compilation is the irrevocable?
short life transcends the author’s real life 2013 as it charts the the confronting after him and the faith that a unique, informative, of essays, speeches Improvement introduces
her tragic death to grandmother. The disintegration of a of that terrible time, but sustains him. His surprisingly funny and writings on topics us to a glorious
become an illuminating remarkable A Universe corrupt public official, also her life growing up formative experiences, and deeply affecting including palaeontology, patchwork of portraits,
and important of Sufficient Size is tormented by his past in Adelaide, detailing his years of advocacy memoir of finding hope mammalogy, a disparate, delightful
investigation into simultaneously a cruelty, and complicity the impressive example and yes! – his after despair. “I went environmental science ensemble that we follow
Pakistan’s class, gender generational saga, a with the totalitarian of living with disability relationship with into the forest”, Woon and history, as well as along their ultimately
and sexual mores, and study of trauma, an regime. It is a short, she was set by her brother Peter are says “And came out Tim’s most pressing interwoven trajectories,
the impact of social homage to familial love sharp satire, brutally father, and the powerful explored in this of my grief.” preoccupation, linked by their limits
media on a country and a celebration of and blackly comic. bond that they shared. generous, forthright Chair: Tory Shepherd climate change, and and their truths, and
struggling with its the mysterious beauty Chair: Linda Jaivin Chair: Sophie Black memoir. the challenges and the destinies they have
Supported by NORLA -
contemporary identity. of mathematics. Chair: Rick Sarre Norwegian Literature Abroad. opportunities it presents. worked so hard to
Chair: Deb Whitmont Chair: Angela Savage Chair: Danielle Clode construct.
F Chair: Tali Lavi
10 11
HEAR ME
ROAR! Sun 1 Mar
Plane Tree Stage 2pm East Stage 2.30pm West Stage East Stage 3.45pm West Stage East Stage 5pm West Stage
Jessica Alice, Maxine Beneba THE ULURU PARTITION YELLOW THE FALL OF HOPE, FATE YOU WILL BE
Clarke, Ian Gibbins, Emelia Haskey, STATEMENT: VOICES: NOTEBOOK:
Laniyuk, Luka Lesson
EMPIRES AND POVERTY SAFE HERE
WHERE THE BLOODY UNTOLD DIARIES VOL1,
HELL ARE WE? BRITISH VOICES 1978–87
AUSTRALIA
Megan Davis Christopher Clark Tash Aw
Thomas Mayor Kavita Puri Helen Garner Serhii Plokhy Chigozie Obioma Damian Barr
Hear Me Roar! returns in 2020 to
showcase poets lighting up international, AUSTRALIA UK AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA/UK MALAYSIA/UK UK
national and local stages. This year we UKRAINE/USA NIGERIA/USA
feature poets from the groundbreaking
anthology Solid Air, including Australian In May 2017, the In 1947, British judge In Helen Garner’s Powerful empires Chicken farmer “You will be safe here”:
Slam Poetry Champions Luka Lesson Uluru Statement Cyril Radcliffe made Yellow Notebook we seem invincible... until Chinoso’s efforts to a promise twice made
and wāni plus contributors Jessica Alice, from the Heart was his first and only trip experience one of they fall. What causes show himself worthy and twice broken
Laniyuk, Ian Gibbins and Maxine Beneba released, a roadmap for to India to redraw our greatest writers in great global empires to to his rich fiancé’s in this harrowing,
Clarke, as well as SA standout Slammers Indigenous recognition its map and create raw, unguarded form. recede, or even vanish? disdainful family powerful debut novel
Emelia Haskey, Caroline Reid and Manal in the Constitution that Pakistan. The deadly, We read of her fierce Two of the world’s prove ill-fated in from acclaimed author
Younus plus special guest Pakistani was the result of an dramatic impact of struggle with herself leading historians Serhii Chigozie Obioma’s Damian Barr. Sarah is
poet H. M. Naqvi. Join us for two hours unprecedented process the hastily created – “No wonder he can’t Plokhy and Christopher Booker-shortlisted An interned with her son in
of exhilarating, energetic and inspiring of consultation by the border was immediate. stand me. I can hardly Clark have analysed Orchestra of Minorities. one of the world’s first
spoken word led by Solid Air editors David Referendum Council, Overnight, millions stand myself” – her the demise of great In Tash Aw’s We, The concentration camps.
Stavanger and Anne-Marie Te Whiu. an organisation set up found themselves on writing – “a middle-level empires in masterful Survivors, Ah Hock’s A contemptuous
with bipartisan support. what they regarded as craftswoman” – and publications including struggle to keep the job stepfather dispatches
PAKISTAN AUSTRALIA Despite hostility the wrong side of the the diary itself – “What Serhii’s The Last that rescued him from young Willem to a
from the Federal border and catastrophic is the point of this Empire on the collapse a precarious existence brutal training camp
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Government, the Uluru violence ensued. A diary?” And we revel of the Soviet Union has disastrous to learn to “become
Statement continues to daughter of partition, in her sharp, vivid and Christopher’s Iron consequences. Both a man”. Moving deftly
H. M. Naqvi, Caroline Reid, David garner strong support Kavita Puri’s Partition observations, her Kingdom on the fall of books tell of men between the Boer War
Stavanger (MC), Anne-Marie Te from Australians from Voices offers moving biting wit and hard- Prussia. They discuss yearning for small and contemporary
Whiu (MC), wāni, Manal Younus all walks of life. Megan insight into lives ripped won wisdom, and the the characteristics settled lives brought South Africa, You
Davis and Thomas apart and remade immersive acuity of of empires past undone by the social Will Be Safe Here
Mayor were integral to by the trauma of this the thoughtscape she and assess the circumstances that illuminates hidden
its development: they event, bringing it and has created and so vulnerabilities of surround them, and are cruelties – past and
explain the process its historic aftermath to generously shared. today’s imperial as structurally bold as present – to explore
and the vital need for a vivid, intimate life. Chair: Annabel Crabb powers. they are emotionally the heartbreaking
Voice, Treaty and Truth. Chair: Steven Gale Chair: Tom Wright powerful. legacy of trauma.
Chair: Clare Wright Chair: Michael Williams Chair: Sharon Davis
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Mon 2 Mar
East Stage 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage East Stage 1.15pm West Stage
MINING THE SELECTED CHRISTIANITY’S FIRST, THEY GREENWOOD DISAPPEARING WOMEN BANGKOK
HISTORY’S WORKS OF CROSSROADS ERASED EARTH IN WAR WAKES
DEPTHS ABDULLAH OUR NAME: TO RAIN
Tim Costello A ROHINGYA SPEAKS
Damian Barr THE COSSACK Meredith Lake Zahra Hankir Pitchaya
Bart van Es H. M. Naqvi Christos Tsiolkas Habiburahman Michael Christie Julia Phillips Sophie McNeill Sudbanthad
UK PAKISTAN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA CANADA USA LEBANON/UK THAILAND/USA
THE NETHERLANDS/UK AUSTRALIA
Damian Barr’s You H. M. Naqvi’s debut Beset by scandals “This is my chance to Michael Christie’s Julia Phillips spent a Sophie McNeill is one Bangkok Wakes to
Will Be Safe Here is a novel, Home Boy, told across its speak for my people, magnificent year in Kamchatka – a of Australia’s most Rain is the story of
heartbreaking novel that the New York 9/11 denominations, who continue to suffer, Greenwood begins former closed Soviet celebrated journalists the great megacity
links two dark periods story from a Pakistani the institutions of but who are voiceless.” after The Great military zone and an who has reported from of Bangkok and its
of South African history perspective. It won the Christianity seem in Rohingya Habiburahman Withering in one of isolated landscape frontlines in Syria, rains and floods,
to examine trauma inaugural DSC Prize for crisis, with followers was three years old the last tranches of utterly unfamiliar to Yemen, Afghanistan, an impressive and
and its terrible echoes South Asian Literature. disillusioned by the when the Burmese old-growth forests, most Western readers Iraq and Gaza. With immersive tale woven
through time. Bart van His follow up is The dissonance between Government declared now a kind of eco- – and the stunning pathos and power, across multiple
Es delves deep into Selected Works of the behaviour of his people were not museum for wealthy result is Disappearing her new book, We characters and
his family’s history Abdullah the Cossack, religious leaders part of the country’s tourists. Over-qualified Earth. Shortlisted for Can’t Say We Didn’t centuries. Pitchaya
to explore the Dutch both a rollicking ride and the Bible’s recognised “national guide Jacinda “Jake” the National Book Know, tells the Sudbanthad’s
response to Germany’s through Karachi, its teachings. Meredith races”. Overnight, he Greenwood’s world is Award, this unique human stories behind ambitious, lush and
murderous Third Reich eccentric characters Lake’s The Bible in became stateless in turned upside down literary thriller opens the battleground’s intricately plotted novel
in his Costa Award- and cosmopolitan Australia: A Cultural his own country and when she learns her with the abduction of headlines. Lebanese- contains a compelling,
winning The Cut Out history, and the tale History examines the Rohingya have tangled family tree two little white girls and British journalist disparate cast whose
Girl. Their meticulously of septuagenarian the defining role the suffered extreme and gives her a claim of examines how their Zahra Hankir’s Our lives intersect around a
researched, beautifully Abdullah, a “larger Bible has played in our brutal persecution ever ownership on the disappearance echoes Women on the Ground building in Bangkok. In
told stories tread lightly than life but gloriously contemporary history. since. First, They Erased resort. Dazzlingly across the lives of is a collection of lyrical prose, Pitchaya
across sensitive truths, unaccomplished man”, Meredith joins Christos Our Name is an urgent, structured across a cast of complex writings from Arab writes of what endures,
powerfully demonstrating whose decaying body Tsiolkas (Damascus) first-hand account of four generations, this women. It’s a gripping, women reporting and what is erased,
history’s resonance belies his vital mind and Tim Costello (A Lot genocide in motion – the propulsive family saga fascinating book by a on conflicts in their highlighting dark
across fiction and and ongoing quest with a Little) to discuss heartbreaking personal takes us to the end striking new talent. own homelands, an histories that refuse
non-fiction. for meaning. the ethics and culture story behind a vicious of the world, and then Chair: Nicole Abadee important anthology to be buried and
Chair: Anton Enus Chair: Linda Jaivin of Christianity and its campaign of oppression shows us how we that provides a new, issuing warnings of
institutions, and how and humanitarian crisis. got there. non-Western lens a submerged future
they shape Australia. Chair: Alice Pung Chair: Michael Williams through which to view too stark to ignore.
Chair: Sharon Davis familiar wars. Chair: Steven Gale
Chair: Deb Whitmont
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Mon 2 Mar TWILIGHT
TALKS
East Stage 2.30pm West Stage East Stage 3.45pm West Stage East Stage 5pm West Stage 7pm West Stage
A CARBON DIVIDED INNER 2020 MUD FUTURE READING, AUTHORIAL VOICE
FREE FUTURE LANDS EXPLORATION LITERARY POLITICS: WRITING AND Writers’ Week live chat show
PRIZE LIVING TOGETHER Hosted by Benjamin Law
IN A WORLD RECLAMATION
Tim Flannery Arif Anwar, Sanam Ali Cobby Eckermann TRANSFORMED BY TECH Bri Lee, Lucia
As the sun sets, the heat recedes and work
Ross Garnaut Maher, Kavita Puri Joy Harjo Jamie Susskind Osborne-Crowley is done for the day, the bar is open in the
AUSTRALIA BANGLADESH/CANADA AUSTRALIA USA UK AUSTRALIA Pioneer Women’s MemorialGarden and the
Authorial Voice couch is the place to be.
PAKISTAN UK
Australia’s most charming raconteur
From the scrapping As India underwent When Joy Harjo Inaugurated by the It is uncontroversial to Bri Lee (Eggshell Benjamin Law is host of Twilight Talks’
of the Carbon Tax, to its traumatic partition, became US Poet passionate readers who state that our world has Skull) and Lucia favourite new event, enticing some of
support for new coal the province of Bengal Laureate in June 2019, comprise Adelaide’s been transformed by Osborne-Crowley (I Writers’ Week’s most intriguing guests
mines, Australia’s was similarly divided she became the first MUD Literary Club – technology. But what Choose Elena) are two to join him on the couch for an all-bases
major parties seem along crude religious Native American to the only philanthropic are the implications of of Australia’s most conversation on books, life, and the
unable to grapple with lines, split between hold that position. organisation in the this revolution? To what interesting, intelligent State of the World.
our Earth’s climate India and Pakistan. 24 Ali Cobby Eckermann country exclusively extent should our lives young writers. Both Competing for attention is the all-Queer,
crisis. In Superpower: years on, the province was the first Aboriginal supporting literature – be dictated by powerful have also experienced all-star line-up of Damian Barr, himself host
Australia’s Low Carbon then known as East Australian to win Yale the MUD Literary Prize digital systems…and significant trauma as a of London’s most celebrated literary salon,
Opportunity, Ross Pakistan successfully University’s prestigious has swiftly established on what terms? Jamie result of sexual assault. Nigerian-American reporter, activist and
Garnaut argues this launched the Windham-Campbell an impressive pedigree. Susskind’s award- They refused to let memoirist Chiké Frankie Edozien and author
political paralysis has Bangladesh Liberation winning Future Politics the assaults define of the emerging cult classic Paul Takes the
prize, awarded annually Founded to honour a
Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor.
obscured unrivalled War, supported by for excellence in debut novel of literary examines the relentless them. Embracing
opportunity. Tim Indian forces. British- writing. These two fiction, past winners digital innovation of literature and its
Flannery’s Life: Selected Indian author Kavita trailblazing women are Sarah Schmidt (See our time, positing capacity to heal, the
Writings documents a Puri (Partition Voices), are powerful voices What I Have Done) and digital code as the crimes against them
life at the forefront of Pakistani journalist in international the author whose debut architecture of our age, became their starting
our environmental Sanam Maher (A literature, complex, novel Boy Swallows capable of directing points for searching,
debates. Two of Woman Like Her) and activist, and authentic. Universe took the our behaviour and potent analyses of
Australia’s leading Bangladeshi author They describe the country by storm, thought. It challenges the failings of society
Climate Change thinkers Arif Anwar (The Storm ) challenges they have Trent Dalton. us to acknowledge that and its systems, and
discuss how Australia reflect on the seismic, overcome to achieve Be the first to hear Digital is Political, and personal, deeply
can break out of its tragic ructions their stunning literary from the 2020 winner. develop an appropriate affecting roadmaps
current policy mire and of their region’s history success, and how Chair: David Sly response to this era- to an empathetic and
the great prospects that and their ongoing they write them into defining fact. empowered future Damian Barr, Chiké Frankie
await us when we do. geopolitical impact. their poems.
Edozien, Andrea Lawlor
Chair: Scott Ludlam Chair: Jo Case
Chair: Tom Griffiths Chair: Paul Barclay Chair: Michael Williams UK NIGERIA/USA USA
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TREES FOR THE STORM LOVE, LIFE FROM FACT COMBATTING THE POWER OF RADICAL THE WHITE
LIFE AND ACTIVISM TO FICTION EXTREMISM PERSPECTIVE DEMOCRACY GIRL
Dennis Altman Julia Phillips, Joan
Michael Christie Chiké Frankie Anna Goldsworthy Tony McAleer Silber, Pitchaya
Sophie Cunningham Arif Anwar Edozien Anna Krien Jeff Sparrow Sudbanthad Yanis Varoufakis Tony Birch
CANADA BANGLADESH/CANADA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA UK/CANADA USA GREECE AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA NIGERIA/USA AUSTRALIA THAILAND
“A tree is never just Burma 1942; India Vibrant and humane, Anna Krien is best Tony McAleer spent The diverse residents Politician, economist In Tony Birch’s new
a tree” writes Sophie 1946; Bangladesh Chiké Frankie Edozien’s known for her award- 15 years as a leader, of a changing building and public intellectual: novel, The White Girl,
Cunningham in her 1970; the US 2004. award-winning memoir, winning explorations recruiter and in Bangkok. Disparate Yanis Varoufakis matriarch Odette
stunning essay Countries trembling Lives of Great Men, of subjects including propagandist for women across the is one of Europe’s holds her light-skinned
collection, City of in troubled times. recounts the lives of power and abuse in AFL North American white remote peninsula most intriguing and granddaughter Sissy
Trees. She marvels Inspired by the Bhola gay Africans, some (Night Games). Anna supremacist groups. of Kamchatka. A charismatic leaders. He close and tries to
at the grandeur and Cyclone of 1970 that who exile themselves Goldsworthy’s memoirs His long and arduous New York-based came to prominence circumvent Removal
intensity of trees killed 500,000 people in the West in order are characterised by journey back from aunt and niece and as Greek Foreign policies by seeking
and their forests, overnight, Bangladeshi to live openly and warmth, wit, insight and hate is documented in the characters they Minister arguing against anonymity in the city.
and their capacity to author Arif Anwar’s freely, some who stay honesty (Piano Lessons his book The Cure for encounter. The a European Union- But to cross her town’s
tell the story of their sweeping novel threads home, mostly in the and Welcome to Your Hate. The Christchurch polyphonic novels imposed austerity, borders, she needs the
surrounds. In Michael together five lives closet. Dennis Altman’s New Life). Both have massacre prompted of Julia Phillips condemning the EU as permission of its brutal
Christie’s Greenwood, across time and place, Unrequited Love tells just published their Jeff Sparrow to (Disappearing anti-democratic and new policeman – and
wealthy tourists highlighting the tumult of an intellectual life first works of fiction. investigate the politics Earth), Joan Silber overly bureaucratic. Now state custodian of all
flock to an exclusive of Partition, the violent spent at the forefront The Annas discuss of hate and fascism, (Improvement) and heading his own party in Aboriginal people in
arboreal resort to birth of Bangladesh of the Gay Liberation their transition from and the threat they Pitchaya Sudbanthad the Greek Parliament – his district – Sergeant
experience the great and the divisions of movement. Along the fact to fiction, the pose. The result is (Bangkok Wakes to the fantastically named Lowe. From one of
majesty of Earth’s contemporary America. way, these fascinating different Australias they Fascists Among Us. Rain) are structurally European Realistic Australia’s leading
last cache of trees. The Storm is Arif’s rich memoirs document evoke so effectively A timely discussion complex and dazzlingly Disobedience Front – storytellers, Tony
Both books vividly and evocation of the history social shifts – for better in their novels Act about the motivations detailed. Our panel of he has emerged as Birch’s The White Girl
profoundly remind us of his country, through and worse – and are of Grace (Krien) and and strategies of the deft jugglers discusses a leader of a fiercely is an illuminating and
of what we stand to the personal tales of illuminating love letters Melting Moments far right, and how the challenges of democratic pan- eloquent meditation on
lose if our wholescale love and sacrifice of to Africa and the US. (Goldsworthy), and individuals are drawn creating such varied European movement family, strength and the
destruction of trees his memorable cast of Chair: Anton Enus the characters – both into a world of violent ensembles and how and a powerful advocate misuse of power.
continues. characters. damaged and loving – extremism. they wove their stories for a radically humanist Chair: Paul Daley
Chair: Scott Ludlam Chair: Steven Gale that inhabit them. Chair: George into such satisfying post-capitalist society.
Chair: Tali Lavi Megalogenis wholes. Chair: Tony Jones
Chair: Jo Case
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REFLECTIONS SEARCHING SEE WHAT WE, THE GUEST HOUSE POETRY Arif Anwar, Tash Aw,
ON WRITING FOR THE YOU MADE SURVIVORS FOR YOUNG READING Long Litt Woon, Sophie McNeill
SISTERHOOD ME DO WIDOWS BANGLADESH/CANADA MALAYSIA/UK
John Birmingham Ruby Hamad, Aileen Peter Goldsworthy, MALAYSIA/NORWAY AUSTRALIA
John Boyne Moreton-Robinson Jess Hill Tash Aw Azadeh Moaveni Joy Harjo, H. M.
AUSTRALIA IRAN/USA
Naqvi, Peter Rose,
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA/UK
David Stavanger
IRELAND
ROCK BOTTOM
John Boyne and John Ruby Hamad’s eloquent Jess Hill’s acclaimed We, the Survivors is the Shortlisted for the Baillie AUSTRALIA See another side of your favourite
Birmingham’s prolific article about white See What You Made story of Ah Hock, born Gifford Prize, Azadeh Writers’ Week guests as they reveal
USA PAKISTAN
writings traverse styles women’s tendency Me Do sheds new in a fishing village in Moaveni’s Guest House their contemplative, provocative and/or
and genres. Best known to respond with tears and harrowing Malaysia, a man whose for Young Widows is mischievous sides.
for his bestselling The if their behaviour light on the social small ambitions for a a gripping account of A celebrated line-up Join MC Writers’ Week Director Jo Dyer
Boy in the Striped is politely called to and psychological better life are thwarted thirteen young women of poets from Australia as an impressive all-star line-up speaks
Pyjamas, John Boyne account by Women causes of domestic by a countryside of who were variously and the world share for up to 10 minutes on their personal
has written 16 novels, of Colour went viral abuse, its horrifying deprivation. Twice long- recruited, inspired, or readings of their work. nadirs, on that terrible moment when
short stories and his worldwide and became consequences and listed for the Booker compelled to leave From the US Poet they hit their life’s Rock Bottom...
reviews appear in The the basis of her book, the failure of our legal and winner of the their lives and, in some Laureate Joy Harjo, and what happened next.
Irish Times and The White Tears/Brown and social institutions Whitbread prize for first cases, countries, to Pakistani slam
Guardian. Cult classic Scars. Aileen Moreton- to adequately novel, We, the Survivors to join ISIS. Azadeh poet H. M. Naqvi, and
He Died With A Falafel Robinson’s now classic respond. Exhaustively is the first of Tash Aw’s offers a nuanced and Australians Maxine
in His Hand was John Talkin’ Up to the White researched, this novels to be set in meticulously researched Beneba Clarke, David AUSTRALIA USA THAILAND/USA
Birmingham’s first Woman was one of the important and Malaysia. Confronting explanation of the Stavanger, Peter Rose
published book. He has first books to challenge courageous book has uncomfortable truths global appeal of violent and Adelaide’s own Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Julia
gone on to write award- the whitewashing of helped reframe the about his home country, jihadism, and visceral Peter Goldsworthy, this Phillips, Joan Silber, Pitchaya
winning history, science Australian feminism. national conversation it is an eloquent descriptions of the session celebrates Sudbanthad
fiction, reportage and They ask the question: about domestic abuse contribution to his brutality that awaited poetry in all its forms.
regular newspaper what kind of feminism – who abuses, who ongoing investigation these young women Chair: Anne-Marie
columns. They reflect is dominant in Australia they abuse and why – into the changing seeking community Te Whiu
on the challenges, today? And what kind of making a compelling nature of Asian society. and empowerment.
joys and business of feminism do we want? argument that change Chair: Ashley Hay With some still stranded
being a writer. Chair: Shakira Hussein is not only necessary by the Caliphate’s fall,
Chair: Charlotte Wood but possible. this is an urgent
Chair: Victoria Purman important book.
Chair: Sophie McNeill
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RIPPED MAYBE THE BIG SISTER, ON GRIEF PEDDLING LOOMING THE CHALLENGE MINOTAUR
FROM THE HORSE WILL LITTLE SISTER, DOOM: LARGE: OF CHANGE:
THE EXISTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY’S WOMEN’S LIVES
HEADLINES TALK RED SISTER THREATS OF CAPITALISM TAKEOVER IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Tony Jones John Birmingham Antony Loewenstein Robert Elliott Smith Johka Alharthi, Zahra
Heather Rose Elliot Perlman Jung Chang Long Litt Woon Yanis Varoufakis Jamie Susskind Hankir, Azadeh Moaveni Peter Goldsworthy
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA CHINA / UK AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA UK OMAN LEBANON/UK AUSTRALIA
MALAYSIA/NORWAY GREECE IRAN/USA
Terrorism, Canberra “I am absolutely From the author of the Patti Smith said that it Has capitalism mutated Technology A distinguished panel In his latest book,
power struggles, terrified of losing a job worldwide bestseller is “part of the privilege into a system that companies are blamed explores the extent of Minotaur, Peter
international intrigue: I absolutely hate”. So Wild Swans, Jung of being human poses real risks to for undermining change in the lives of Goldsworthy sets himself
they feature in our beings Elliot Perlman’s Chang, comes the story that we all have the human beings, whether our democracies, women in the Middle something of a challenge
headlines and in the latest novel, Maybe of the remarkable Soong moment when we those in vulnerable obliterating our privacy East over the last when he makes his
latest offerings from the Horse Will Talk, an sisters, three sisters have to say goodbye.” groups – the poor, the and undercutting our decade. Lebanese- compelling protagonist,
Stella Award-winning excoriating examination who were among the Loss and grief come remote, those who have industrial systems. British journalist Zahra the congenial but
novelist Heather of the dehumanising most significant political to us all, an experience suffered a natural or Have they? And if so, Hankir (Our Women complicated cop,
Rose and renowned impact of corporate figures of 20th Century both unique and human-made disaster – what are we doing on the Ground: Essays Sergeant Rick Zadow,
Australian journalist culture. Elliot’s unerring China. One married universal. Long Litt or as an entire species? about it? Robert from Arab Women blind, reliant on dog
Tony Jones. Bruny asks capacity to capture “Father of China” Sun Woon’s husband Yanis Varoufakis (And Elliott Smith (Rage Reporting from the Scout and the virtual
hard questions about the zeitgeist saw his Yat-sen and became died suddenly, her the Weak Suffer What Inside the Machine) Arab World), Iranian- Siri to get around the
our politicians’ capacity first two novels – Three Mao’s vice-chair, one life transformed in They Must?) and and Jamie Susskind American journalist and streets of Adelaide. He
to handle China’s Dollars and Seven became Chiang Kai- an instant. John Antony Loewenstein (Future Politics) look author Azadeh Moaveni rises to it admirably. On
complex agendas. Types of Ambiguity – Shek’s unofficial main Birmingham’s father (Disaster Capitalism: at the impact of digital (Lipstick Jihad and the surface a witty and
Tony Jones’ pacey adapted for the screen. adviser, and the other was long ill, and went Making A Killing Out Of technologies on our Guest House for Young highly entertaining thriller,
thrillers The Twentieth Maybe the Horse married him. Sometimes gently into the good Catastrophe) ponder lives and societies, and Widows) and Omani the violent, embittered
Man and In Darkness Will Talk is another arch political opponents night. In Woon’s The whether our current the algorithms that novelist and academic “Zads” also offers a
Visible traverse global novel for the times, a but always close-knit, Way Through the economic systems now invisibly drive them. Jokha Alharthi (Celestial fascinating character
conflagrations and mordant contemporary the glamorous and Woods and John’s On represent an existential They examine the Bodies) examine the study, and, using his
Australian macho parable about sexual privileged Big Sister, Father, they reflect on threat to our species, case for and against diversity of women’s blindness, especially
politics. Tony blurs harassment and Little Sister, Red Sister the deeply personal, and if so, what can be these transformational experiences across the to his own failings, as a
historical fact and surviving the were at the very centre profoundly human done about it. tools, and the powerful Middle East, and the recurring metaphor, an
fiction; Heather modern world. of power and helped experience of grief. Chair: Paul Barclay companies that challenges they face in examination of the
speculates on all-too- Chair: Clare Wright shape modern China. Chair: Natasha Cica create them. campaigning murky depths of the
possible futures. Chair: Sophie Chair: George for equality. human psyche.
Supported by the Copyright Long Litt Woon supported
Chair: Victoria Purman Agency Cultural Fund. Cunningham by NORLA - Norwegian Megalogenis Chair: Shakira Hussein Chair: Peter Rose
Literature Abroad.
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TELL ME WHY THE COMMON THE GRIFFITH POETIC PAUL TAKES AUTHORIAL VOICE
GOOD WEEKEND REVIEW JUSTICE THE FORM OF Writers’ Week live chat show
Rachel Ankeny,
A MORTAL GIRL Hosted by Benjamin Law
Jane R Goodall Natasha Cica, Anne
Archie Roach John Quiggin Charlotte Wood Tiernan, Danielle Wood Joy Harjo Andrea Lawlor Grab a glass of wine and join Benjamin
Law on the couch as he returns with the
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA USA USA wit and wisdom of the Writers’ Week live
chat show, Authorial Voice.
In this deeply moving In The Politics of the The Natural Way of From the political to Musician, author and An impressively original Traversing the globe one author at a time,
memoir, Australian Common Good, Things was a literary the personal, from poet Joy Harjo was take on queer, gender Ben is joined by Australia’s favourite Greek
economist and admirably aggressive
musical legend Archie Jane R Goodall argues sensation and garnered the institutional to the appointed US Poet and sexual identity, this
democrat Yanis Varoufakis, US Poet
Roach tells his story that we are caught its author accolades intimate, trust is one Laureate in June razor-sharp raunchy Laureate Joy Harjo and award-winning
for the first time. in the throes of a and awards. Charlotte of our go-to social 2019, the first Native novel is an Orlando Iranian American journalist and author
Best known for his neoliberalism that fails Wood’s new novel, The adhesives. But if we are American to hold the for our time. Set in the Azadeh Moaveni (Guest House for
anthem for the Stolen to value the wellbeing Weekend, is equally in a post-trust world – position. Her journey 1990s, Paul Polydoris Young Widows) to discuss the
Generations, Took the of a community. Human impressive. A study in a place of pernicious to this literary pinnacle is a young gay man knotty complexities of our twenty-first
Children Away, Tell welfare comes second female friendship, loss political influence has not been easy on a personal journey century world.
Me Why recounts the to budget surpluses. and the challenges and fake news – how – she recounts the from Iowa City to the
impact on his own life John Quiggin’s of ageing, the story does that speak trauma of her early rainbow lights of San
of being taken away, Economics in Two unfolds over a Christmas to power, truth and life in her illuminating Francisco. Paul is also
separated from family Lessons posits that weekend, as three old engagement? What memoir Crazy Brave. a shapeshifter, able to
and country. those very surpluses friends meet to sort are the opportunities She found redemption transform his physical
He details his struggle are only achieved by through the house of the for reform and agency? in the spirit of poetry. form from male to
with mental health, obscuring the true cost recently deceased fourth How can we connect, Full of wisdom and female to suit his mood,
attempts to reconnect of economic activity; in their quartet. Full of reclaim our power beauty, Joy’s poetry is circumstances and/or
with his people, and that the much-vaunted sharp characterisations, and trust once more? steeped in spirituality lover. A wild and witty
his triumphant markets ignore social keen observations Explore these ideas and the great myths bildungsroman, Paul
redemption through opportunity costs. and dry, sly humour, and more with this of her people, and is a Takes the Form of a
music and love. These two authors ask: The Weekend is an Griffith Review panel. profound and poignant Mortal Girl is a playful,
Chair: David Sly to what do we ascribe a absorbing, satisfying Chair: Ashley Hay exploration of the picaresque delight. Joy Harjo, Azadeh Moaveni,
value in Australia and to exploration of growing universe and our Chair: Dennis Altman Yanis Varoufakis
what cost? up and growing old. place within it.
USA IRAN/USA GREECE
Chair: Adam Suckling Chair: Kerryn Chair: Claire Nichols
Goldsworthy
Supported by the Copyright
Agency Cultural Fund.
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THE RISE A CLIMATE OF RAGE INSIDE INTIMATE CELESTIAL THE KEEPING IT STOLEN
AND FALL OF CONSEQUENCE THE MACHINE ACCOUNTS BODIES INSCRUTABLE TOGETHER: LIVES
CARDINAL PELL A RATIONAL
SENATOR RESPONSE TO DRUGS
David Marr Alice Robinson Vicki Hastrich WONG Chris Fleming Antonio Buti
Louise Milligan Lucy Treloar Robert Elliott Smith Donna Ward Jokha Alharthi Margaret Simons Antony Loewenstein Jennifer Caruso
Mandy Whyte
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George Pell was In their new books, Our world today Two collections of A poetic novel of great Gay, Malaysian-born, For better or worse, A sick baby is taken
Australia’s most Alice Robinson and is as governed by profound and deeply beauty and intensity, female – Penny Wong human beings have to hospital by his
powerful Catholic Lucy Treloar grapple technology as it is by personal meditations on Jokha Alharthi’s is an unlikely hero of long been taking drugs, concerned father.
– friend to Prime with the consequences laws and regulations. what it is to be human Celestial Bodies is the Australian Labor legal and illegal. Why are Once he’s recovered,
Ministers, right-hand of our changing One of the world’s in today’s world. In the first novel written Party. But her sharp some drugs outlawed baby Bruce is fostered
man to the Pope. Then climate. In a Melbourne leading experts on She I Dare Not Name, in Arabic to win the mind, fierce integrity and others embraced? out to another family
it all came crashing destroyed by a final AI and evolutionary Donna Ward reflects International Booker and political acumen What is the impact of without the consent
down. Louise Milligan cataclysmic storm, algorithms, Robert with wry humour, Prize. Through the has seen the Senator prohibition? A panel or knowledge of his
was the only journalist Alice’s The Glad Shout Elliott Smith believes fierce intelligence and lives of interconnected from South Australia that brings together parents. Antonio
to tell the stories of is a powerful story we have been unflinching honesty on families across three rise through Labor three important Buti’s A Stolen Life
Pell’s accusers. When of maternal love and dangerously seduced a life lived in unexpected generations, it reveals ranks, and achieve a perspectives: journalist tells the story of
Pell was charged and desperate resilience. into believing that solitude. Vicki Hastrich‘s the radical changes national popularity that and author Antony Bruce Trevorrow, the
later convicted of sex In Lucy’s superb Wolfe technology is neutral Night Fishing explores that have transformed transcends partisan Loewenstein looks at only member of the
crimes against children, Island, the indomitable and it is only its human the pleasures of fishing, Oman over the loyalty. For this first the effect of the US-led Stolen Generations to
Louise’s reporting on Kitty Hawke lives alone users that distort and writing and thinking in last century, from major biography, War on Drugs in his successfully sue an
the allegations in her on an eroding island on discriminate. In his lucid, a captivating series of a traditional slave- Margaret Simons book Pills, Powder and Australian Government
book, Cardinal, led to the Chesapeake Bay insightful and highly observational essays owning country to a spoke to Penny’s inner Smoke. Chris Fleming’s for compensation.
her being a witness in until her granddaughter readable Rage Inside on life, philosophy and complex contemporary circles – and scored On Drugs documents Dr Jennifer Caruso,
the case. Her work won arrives seeking the Machine, Robert the natural world. These society. Told from interviews with the his own addiction. herself a member
her two Quill Awards sanctuary for herself demonstrates how non- two remarkable books alternating first and elusive politician herself Mandy Whyte recounts of the Stolen
and Walkley Book of and her persecuted scientific ideas have lead us on a journey third perspectives, – to deliver a fascinating her efforts to save her Generations, is a
the Year. She joins long- young companions. been encoded deep through the ordinary, this rich family saga and comprehensive meth-addicted son leading researcher on
time Pell observer and Both masterfully within our technological elegantly illuminating combines deep cultural account of the life and in Dancing on a the traumatic legacy
author of The Prince: evoke a dystopian infrastructure and the the extraordinary in insight with clever times of the enigmatic Razor’s Edge. of Australia’s Child
Faith, Abuse and near-future not entirely pernicious impact this the every day. construction. Senator Wong. Chair: David Penberthy Removal policies.
George Pell, David Marr. devoid of hope. can have on our lives. Chair: Charlotte Wood Chair: Claire Nichols Chair: Tory Shepherd Chair: Paul Daley
Chair: Rick Sarre Chair: Sophie Chair: Natasha Cica
Cunningham
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