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ADELAIDE
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WRITERS’
WEEK 2019
2-7 MARCH
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden / Free Entry
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 1
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ADELAIDE
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WRITERS’
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2-7 MARCH
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden / Free Entry
BOOK TENT
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden
Sat 2 � Thu 7 Mar, 9am � 6.30pm
All proceeds from the Book Tent
help to fund Adelaide Writers’ Week
Thank you for your support!
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Welcome to Adelaide
Writers’ Week 2019!
JO DYER
Director, Adelaide
Writers’ Week
We live in strange times, with leadership comedic, absurdist, historical, subtle and
and rationality in short supply and chaos sage. This year, we have introduced the
and confusion abounding. Amongst all Zeitgeist Series in Elder Hall, where issues
the anxiety and uncertainty, however, our of the moment will be discussed and
best and most thoughtful minds continue debated, and Twilight Talks in the Gardens,
to consider matters both important and where our authors and audiences alike can
profound. They ponder what makes us unwind at the end of the day, and get to
human, where we sit in history, how we know each other a little better in an informal
forge relationships - between individuals, setting. There’s a day for the youngest of
genders, races. They explore geopolitics, bookworms and for the first time a day of
how the past echoes across time, how events and spoken word performance for
nations grapple with change. They inspire, our teenage readers and wordsmiths.
inform, educate, illuminate and entertain.
It is a tremendous honour to bring you my
We are delighted at the range of minds first Writers’ Week as Director – I hope
and voices that are gathering at Adelaide you enjoy exploring and experiencing the
Writers’ Week in March. We have authors program as much as I – with the support of
from Australia and across the globe my committed colleagues - have enjoyed
writing on science, current affairs, politics, putting it together.
geography, war, identity, history, crime,
gender and a vast world of fiction – See you in the Gardens.
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 3
THE HON STEVEN JUDY POTTER
MARSHALL MP
Premier of South Australia/ Chair, Adelaide
Minister for the Arts Festival Corporation
The sharing of written stories and ideas is A much-loved and key component of the
such an important aspect of the arts in our Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week
society, and Adelaide Writers’ Week offers 2019 will be the 34th edition and the eighth
the perfect opportunity to celebrate local since it went annual in 2012.
and international writers right here in
South Australia. 2019 sees the arrival of Jo Dyer as
Director. Jo brings a fresh energy and a
The event offers both writers and audiences number of welcome innovations to this
a unique opportunity to spend six days beloved festival of the written word. While
together in the beautiful Pioneer Women’s the wonderful relaxed ambience of the
Memorial Garden in Adelaide’s Park Lands. Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens will
remain the beating heart of Writers’ Week,
As a largely free event, Adelaide Writers’ we will see the event also spread to other
Week is a unique festival in Australia, and a venues and into the evening.
jewel in the crown of the Adelaide Festival.
Adelaide Writers’ Week is amongst the
Every year it attracts both national and great literary festivals of the world, adored
international literary enthusiasts, to listen by readers and writers alike. It takes
to authors speak on a broad range of enormous levels of support to make this
fascinating topics. unique cultural event possible and we
sincerely thank our government, corporate
The State Government has always been a and philanthropic partners, especially our
strong supporter of Writers’ Week and we brand new Adelaide Writers’ Week Donor
hope to continue this partnership long Circle, for their immense generosity.
into the future.
I invite you, our audiences from near and far
I look forward to the celebration of reading, to join us for six wonderful days when some
writing, stories and ideas that is Adelaide of the world’s best writers and thinkers will
Writers’ Week 2019. grapple with great stories, big ideas and
the complexity of contemporary life.
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Ben Okri:
Imagination
Redeems
OPENING ADDRESS
M
an Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is
renowned for writing that is both
poetic and profound. He speaks
of storytelling as a transformative act of
great mystery and inspiration, of stories
possessing a rare power.
“Stories can conquer fear, you know.
They can make the heart bigger.”
Okri challenges us as readers to
imagine and then reimagine the world.
“We can redream this world and make
the dream come real”, he writes. “Human
beings are gods hidden from themselves.”
To mark the publication of his major new
novel, The Freedom Artist, we are delighted
that Ben Okri will deliver the inaugural
Adelaide Writers’ Week Opening Address.
Where The Palais, Elder Park
When Thu 28 Feb, 6:30pm
Duration 1 hr
Tickets $25, Friends $20, Conc $15
Transaction Fees apply
Access
Auslan interpreted
on request
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 5
Challenge The daily crossword in The New York Times MC Damien Cave is considered by many to be the veritable Australian Bureau Chief pinnacle of puzzle-play, a mountain to The New York Times be climbed every day with enthusiasm, When Wednesday March 6 frustration or a combination of the two. 2pm: Heats commence at The NYT crosswords attract passionate 15 minute intervals fans including Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, 3.15pm: Grand Final Ken Burns and the Indigo Girls as a daily Where Pioneer Women’s Memorial must-do, boosting mental acumen, Gardens ABC Stage stretching vocabularies and a crossing Tickets Free – all welcome! of cerebral swords with the anonymous Register on the day puzzle masters. Now The New York Times crossword challenge comes to Adelaide Writers’ Week! Pit your wits against your fellow Writers’ Week attendees and see how fast you can complete the NYT Crosswords. Join one of four heats before the brainiac winners go head to head, competing to be the inaugural AWW NYT Crossword Challenge Champion! 6 adelaidefestival.com.au
The Zeitgeist Series
J
oin us in Elder Hall on Wednesday 6 WED 6 MAR
and Thursday 7 March to hear some Rage, Rape and Revolution
of Writers’ Week’s most interesting
and engaged minds consider two of the with Sohaila Abdulali, Soraya Chemaly,
pressing issues facing the world today. Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Clare Wright.
Chaired by Sisonke Msimang
Renowned international thinkers and
activists Sohaila Abdulali, Soraya Chemaly, THU 7 MAR
Ndaba Mandela and Birgitta Jónsdóttir join
Australian authors Clare Wright, Megan
Reframing the Future
Davis and Lucia Osborne-Crowley to with Ndaba Mandela, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
discuss the debates within and being led and Professor Megan Davis.
by the feminist movement in the #MeToo Chaired by Scott Ludlam
era, and the breakdown of trust in political
leadership and if, how we might imagine a
new way of organising our societies.
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 7
THE ZEITGEIST SERIES
Rage, Rape and
Revolution
Sohaila Abdulali, Soraya Chemaly,
Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Clare Wright
With the ubiquity of sexual harassment and When Wed 6 Mar, 6:30pm
gendered assault gaining a new prominence Where Elder Hall
in the #MeToo era, women dared to The University of Adelaide,
hope that a new age was dawning. That North Terrace
perpetrators might be held accountable Duration 1hr 15mins
for the crimes they commit, the pain they Tickets General Admission
cause and the careers or lives they destroy. $25, Friends $20, Conc $15
But has anything really changed? Transaction fees apply.
Ticket price indicated is per session.
Feminist thinkers Sohaila Abdulali, Soraya Bookings adelaidefestival.com.au
Chemaly, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Clare BASS 131 246
Wright discuss the resilience of patriarchy
and the fiery debates within feminism on Access
how best to bring it down. Auslan interpreted
on request
Chair: Sisonke Msimang
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THE ZEITGEIST SERIES
Reframing
the Future
Ndaba Mandela, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
and Megan Davis
In a world of cynicism and apathy, how When Thu 7 Mar, 6:30pm
could we do things differently? Could a Where Elder Hall
new form of leadership lift us from torpor… The University of Adelaide,
and inspire? North Terrace
Duration 1hr 15mins
Africa Rising Foundation founder Ndaba Tickets General Admission
Mandela, former leader of Iceland’s Pirate $25, Friends $20, Conc $15
Party and “poetician” Birgitta Jónsdóttir Transaction fees apply.
Ticket price indicated is per session.
and leading advocate for Australian
Constitutional reform Professor Megan Bookings adelaidefestival.com.au
Davis join Scott Ludlam to discuss the BASS 131 246
burden of our chaotic present, and how we
could change the game. Access
Auslan interpreted
Chair: Scott Ludlam on request
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 9
Breakfast
with Papers
T
he start of your perfect Festival When Sat 2 Mar, Mon 4 – Sun 17 Mar
day begins here: with shared ideas, From 8am – 9am
impassioned discussion and a Where The Palais, Elder Park
good hit of caffeine. From 8am daily at Tickets FREE
The Palais, join host Tom Wright and his
panel of informed guests as they muse Access
over the news of the day and big issues of
the moment. Guests can enjoy coffee by Auslan interpreted
CIBO Espresso with newspapers provided on request
by The Advertiser. As our 2017 and 2018
regulars will attest, it’s an invigorating and
intellectually energetic start to every day Presenting Partners
of the Adelaide Festival.
Full schedule available at
adelaidefestival.com.au
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Talks
Join us in the Gardens from 6pm for a
glass of wine and music with DJ LL Cool
Dre before our informal evening sessions
get under way on the West Stage with
your host, Adelaide Writers’ Week
Director Jo Dyer.
When Mon 4 – Tue 5 Mar, 7pm
Where Pioneer Women’s Memorial
Garden, (West Stage),
King William Road
Tickets FREE
Duration 1hr 30mins
Choose Your Moment Telling Truths
Sohaila Abdulali, Oyinkan Braithwaite,
Future D. Fidel, Rose George, Melissa Gina Apostol, Mohammed Hanif, Birgitta
Lucashenko, Sisonke Msimang, Jónsdóttir, Jing-Jing Lee, Bruno Maçães,
Mads Peder Nordbo, Will Mackin Rick Morton, Preti Taneja, Joelle Taylor
Adelaide Writers’ Week guests recall their Transcending the polarised debates of
lives’ most significant moment and speak our time, a compelling line-up of Adelaide
to its pivotal impact. They single out a Writers’ Week authors respond to this
moment that made them the people they year’s Festival theme and tell us their
are today - as writers, activists, renegades, truths on power, politics, writing, life,
children, parents, or all of the above - humanity, and everything in between.
and tell us about it in 10 minutes or less.
Mon 4 Mar, 7pm | West Stage Tue 5 Mar, 7pm | West Stage
Will Mackin is supported by the Consulate of the United States.
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 11Kids’ Day
EVENT FOR AGES 2 – 10
Credit: Shane Reid
Be part of a magical day of stories, performances and hands-on
fun as authors, actors and adventurers take over Kids Corner to
entertain and inspire our youngest readers.
The Story Tent Evelyn Roth’s Nylon Zoo
The Story Hub of Kids’ Day features It’s time for a parade! Evelyn is bringing
an All Star line-up of Phil Cummings, an echidna to the Gardens so get ready to
Jacqueline Harvey, Tamsin Janu, Andy don a costume, be part of the parade of
Joyner, Anna Walker and It’s Rhyme Time. animals, before climbing into the belly of
the echidna for a story.
Don’t miss Story Trove’s inventive world of
story-telling through live performance and Face Painting with Fizzbubble
creative play. 9.30am – 3pm
Tamsin Janu is supported by the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Free Nest Studio and Nylon Zoo
Bookings on site on the day
Nest Studio
Nest Studio helps little artists express
themselves in many ways! Create a forest When Sat 2 Mar, 9.30am – 3.30pm
out of cardboard boxes, publish a story Where Pioneer Women’s Memorial
about a lost hen, print some original lines Garden, King Willliam Road
of poetry….or join in the fun by making an Tickets FREE
official Writers’ Week bookmark to keep
or distribute to our audience.
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Story Tent
Program
WITH MC SAM MCMAHON
Sat 2 March
9.30
Andy Joyner
It’s Rhyme Time 12.00pm
with Carl Smith
Storytelling with
10.00am 12.30pm Story Trove - Mr Huff
Phil Cummings
10.20am My Favourite Story
with Carl Smith 1.00 – 1.30pm BREAK
10.30am Story Trove - Kensy & Max with
Tintinnabula 1.30pm Jacqueline Harvey
11.00 – 11.30am BREAK Story Trove -
2.00pm Tintinnabula
11.30am Storytelling with Figgy in the World
Anna Walker 2.30 pm with Tamsin Janu
11.50am My Favourite Story My Favourite Story
with Jane Doyle 3.00pm with Eddie Woo
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 13A Day
for Middle
and YA Readers
Writing in all its forms is celebrated in a day for tweens When Sun 3 Mar,
and teens. The Gardens are a relaxed backdrop for music, 10am – 4.30pm
spoken word performance and events from Australia’s Where Pioneer Women’s
best authors writing for readers aged 8 – 18. Memorial Garden
Tickets FREE
DJ from 10am, Henna body art, Note Auslan Interpreted
giant Jenga and other games all day. on request
Listen up! Magical Thinking Speaking
Morris Gleitzman Rhiannon Williams Across Time
Jeremy Lachlan Richard Yaxley
When 10am - 10.45am When 11.00am - 11.45am When 12pm - 12.45pm
Where MYA Stage Where MYA Stage Where MYA Stage
Join Children’s Laureate Carl Smith (ABC’s Short Richard Yaxley’s book
Morris Gleitzman in & Curly) sits down with This is My Song crosses
conversation about Rhiannon Williams and three continents and
Australian politics, global Jeremy Lachlan to explore many generations. Richard
activism and why young the ideas and inspirations delivers a talk about the
people’s voices need behind their fantasy power of music and its
to be heard. fiction, and the identities ability to communicate
of their compelling central meaningfully across time.
characters, Jane Doe and
Ottilie Coulter. Richard Yaxley is supported by the Prime
Minister’s Literary Award.
14 adelaidefestival.com.auWorlds Old & New Building Sci-Fi’s Evolution
Sean Williams Connections Garth Nix
Zana Fraillon
When 1pm - 1.45pm When 2pm - 2.45pm When 3pm - 3.45pm
Where MYA Stage Where MYA Stage Where MYA Stage
Sean Williams’ work With The Bone What makes a writer
is informed by an abiding Sparrow and The Ones write a particular kind of
curiosity about, well, that Disappeared, Zana story? Why fantasy and
everything. Join Sean as Fraillon opens our eyes to speculative fiction? Garth Nix
he uncovers the secrets the reality of child slavery discusses the influences and
behind such best-sellers and displacement. Join experiences from childhood
as The Stone Mage & the Zana in conversation for an onwards that set him on the
Sea, Twinmaker and the insight into her stories and path to become one of the
forthcoming Impossible characters. world’s leading authors of
Music. fantasy and science fiction.
Hear Me Roar! Poets Sarah Jane Justice
Laniyuk
Audrey Mason-Hyde
Slam and Performance Melanie Mununggurr-
Williams
Poetry at AWW Solli Raphael
Caroline Reid
Dominic Symes
Joelle Taylor
Amelia Walker (MC)
For the first time Adelaide Writers’ Week showcases Where Pioneer Women’s
some of the best poets striding international, national Memorial Garden,
and local stages. See and hear the UK’s Joelle Taylor, ABC Stage
Australian Slam Poetry Champion Melanie Mununggurr- When Sun 3 Mar,
Williams, young standout Slammers Solli Raphael 2.30pm – 4.30pm
and Audrey Mason-Hyde among many other exciting Tickets FREE
new voices. Join us for over two hours of exhilarating, Note Auslan Interpreted
energetic and inspiring poetry. on request
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 15
15Day One
Sat 2 Mar Morning
FEATURED 9.30am
East Stage
9.30am
West Stage
WRITERS
AUSTRALIA
Stephanie Bishop
Trent Dalton
Reg Dodd
Future D. Fidel
Toni Jordan
Malcolm McKinnon
David Malouf Speaking Up Navigating
George Megalogenis Darkness
Bob Murphy
Kerry O’Brien
Carrie Tiffany Stephanie Bishop,
Gillian Triggs Gillian Triggs Carrie Tiffany
Eddie Woo
CANADA As President of the In Stephanie Bishop’s
Human Rights and Man Out of Time, Stella
Esi Edugyan
Equal Opportunity carefully navigates
Commission, Gillian through her father’s
NIGERIA
Triggs embodied mental illness, living
Oyinkan Braithwaite grace under pressure in a world of constant
Ben Okri as she came under unease. In Exploded
increasingly hysterical View, Carrie Tiffany tells
SINGAPORE criticism for her of a young girl whose
Jing-Jing Lee unflinching advocacy life fills with violent risk
of the victims of when her mother moves
SYRIA Australia’s human her new boyfriend into
rights abrogations. Her the family home. These
Kassem Eid memoir Speaking Up taut novels of dread and
offers a lucid account darkness are written
UNITED KINGDOM of her time in the line of with exemplary control
Joelle Taylor fire, and a compelling and spare beauty by
critique of those who two of Australia’s most
seek to dodge both our accomplished novelists.
international obligations
and scrutiny of the Chair: Nicole Abadee
consequences.
Chair: Rick Sarre
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adelaidefestival.com.au10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
My Country: My Sister the Washington Life Writing:
A Syrian Memory Serial Killer Black Stories from the Self
Trent Dalton, Future
Kassem Eid Oyinkan Braithwaite Esi Edugyan D. Fidel, Joelle Taylor
While compatriots took Korede’s sister’s An endearing young boy Joelle Taylor, Trent
up arms against the boyfriends have a endures the horrors of Dalton and Future D.
army of Bashar al-Assad, nasty habit of ending an enslaved life in 19th Fidel each obeyed
Palestinian Syrian up dead, and Korede Century Barbados. the edict that writers
Kassem Eid resolved to is soon a reluctant A picaresque turn of should write what they
make his contribution via expert at stain removal events leads to know. Trent’s novel
journalism and advocacy. and body disposal. But beguiling adventures Boy Swallows Universe
The Government’s when Ayoola starts as our eponymous hero was reviewed as the
chemical attack on dating a man Korede navigates freedom, best Australian novel
the people of Ghouta is in love with, Korede friendship and loss. in a decade. Future’s
changed that. Kassem’s must decide who she Shortlisted for the 2018 play Prize Fighter was a
haunting eyewitness wants to protect. My Man Booker Prize and nationwide hit before he
account of al-Assad’s Sister the Serial Killer winner of the 2018 adapted it into a novel.
Sarin gas attack in is a deadpan delight: Scotiabank Giller Prize Joelle’s poetry has been
August 2013 was a sharp, witty thriller for Canada’s best work described as fearless,
published by The New about secrets and of fiction, Washington linguistic risk-taking.
York Times and spawned sisterhood and one of Black is a powerful They have used their
his powerful memoir, My the most emphatic and meditation on freedom life stories to tell potent,
Country, a condemnation exhilarating debuts of and slavery and an passionate tales.
of a brutal war and a recent times. exhilarating,
world that tolerated it. engrossing read. Chair: Fiona Wright
Chair: Farrin Foster
Chair: Jon Jureidini Chair: Geordie
Williamson
Supported by Goethe Institut
Australia Supported by Canada Council
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 17
17Day One
Sat 2 Mar Afternoon
1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm
East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
The Freedom Talking A Memoir The
Artist Sideways Fragments
Reg Dodd,
Ben Okri Malcolm McKinnon Kerry O’Brien Toni Jordan
Man Booker prizewinner Reg Dodd is an Kerry O’Brien is Toni Jordan’s The
Ben Okri is renowned Arabunna Elder who one of Australia’s Fragments is a treat
for writing that is both grew up at Finniss most decorated and for booklovers. A
poetic and profound. He Springs, bordering respected journalists. literary thriller, The
speaks of storytelling Lake Eyre. Malcolm In his compelling Fragments draws us
as a transformative act McKinnon is his new memoir, Kerry into the life of reader
of great mystery and long-time friend. Their documents, probes and and bookseller Caddie
inspiration, of stories ongoing conversation illuminates the social in the dying days of
possessing a rare has led to Talking and political upheavals the Bjelke-Petersen
power. He challenges us Sideways, a book about of our time. He writes of era, and Pennsylvanian
as readers to imagine culture, knowledge and a life spent holding the farm-girl Rachel, who
and then reimagine the place, full of engrossing powerful to account, runs away to New York
world. Ben’s major new stories and fascinating reflecting with wit in the 1930s to reinvent
novel, The Freedom people. Warm and and insight on how he herself. Linked by the
Artist, is a powerful enlightening, Talking bore witness to some Harper Lee-esque Inga
call to arms: a searing Sideways is a story of of Australia’s most Karlson and her lost
examination of how the shared, complicated significant historical second novel, this witty
freedom is threatened history of Black and moments. page-turner is a hugely
in a post-truth world. White Australia and a satisfying book about
generous extension Chair: David Marr books and those that
Chair: Claire Nichols of Reg’s lifelong love them.
conversation to bridge
the cultural divide Chair: Cath Kenneally
between the two.
Chair: Jared Thomas
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
A League An Open How We Woo’s
of Our Own Book Disappeared Wonderful
World of Maths
George Megalogenis,
Bob Murphy David Malouf Jing-Jing Lee Eddie Woo
The Western Bulldogs’ David Malouf is one of In Jing-Jing Lee’s Eddie Woo is Australia’s
fairytale 2016 was a Australia’s greatest and moving account of the most unlikely mega-
distant memory by the most beloved writers misnamed “Comfort celebrity. Eponymous
time Richmond raised and author of some of Women” of WWII, we star of his skyrocketing
the trophy in 2017. Both our most celebrated follow Wang Di in the YouTube channel,
would rather forget 2018. novels. His new book, present day, as she Wootube, Eddie is
Legendary Bulldogs’ however, is a potent mourns the death of an enthusiastic and
Captain Bob Murphy and reminder that he began her husband, and in the inspiring teacher who
Richmond tragic George his writing life as a 1940s, as she is ripped has singlehandedly
Megalogenis discuss the poet. An Open Book from her family and made maths fun for a
highs and lows of an AFL- is a vital, evocative incarcerated as a sex new generation of
suffused life, as detailed and moving collection, slave by the invading students. “Maths is play,
in Bob’s entertaining revisiting themes that Japanese. A searing maths is exploration, and
memoir Leather Soul, have preoccupied him story of the impact of maths is a story”, he says.
and consider the across his impressive trauma and shame, His growing collection
unexpected thesis of career with insight How We Disappeared of teaching awards and
George’s The Football and affection. Join is a beautiful testament the rock star welcome he
Solution: that Richmond’s David for a wonderful to the power of quiet, gets everywhere he goes
2017 premiership could contemplation on love, steadfast love. suggests people are
help save Australia. loss, mortality and listening to his message.
memory. Chair: Lur Alghurabi
Chair: Tom Wright Chair: Carl Smith
Chair: Peter Rose
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 19
19FEATURED Day Two
WRITERS Sun 3 Mar Morning
AUSTRALIA
Hon. Bob Carr
Morris Gleitzman 9.30am 9.30am
Jan Golembiewski East Stage West Stage
Melissa Lucashenko
Maeve Marsden
George Megalogenis
Rick Morton
Fiona Patten
Bram Presser
Leigh Sales
Maria Tumarkin
John Zubrzycki
GERMANY
Carolin Emcke How We Run for
Desire Your Life
ICELAND
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Carolin Emcke Hon. Bob Carr
INDIA
Sujatha Gidla
NEW ZEALAND Award-winning journalist, Instructed by then ALP
war correspondent, National Secretary
Annaleese Jochems philosopher and author Stephen Loosley to
Carolin Emcke is one read the sports pages
NIGERIA of Germany’s most for an hour each week,
Oyinkan Braithwaite accomplished and Bob Carr reflected,
admired intellectuals. “If this was the price
PAKISTAN One of the most of political success, it
Mohammed Hanif determined voices was too high”. Never
denouncing hatred and a standard politician,
PORTUGAL speaking out in support like Diary of a Foreign
of minority rights, How Minister before it, Bob’s
Bruno Maçães We Desire is her first Run for Your Life is
book to be translated no standard political
UNITED KINGDOM into English. Part memoir. Candid,
Rose George memoir, part philosophy witty and full of wildly
Andrew Miller of sexuality, it is an entertaining anecdotes,
Amy Sackville hypnotic exploration of it is the welcome next
Preti Taneja gender, desire and love instalment of Bob’s
Joelle Taylor from one of Europe’s political writings.
most bracing minds.
Chair: David
UNITED STATES Chair: Jennifer Mills Penberthy
OF AMERICA
Sohaila Abdulali Supported by Goethe Institut
Australia
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Any Ordinary The Allure Gleefully Leading from
Day of Magic Wicked the Edge
Women Birgitta Jónsdóttir,
Jan Golembiewski, Oyinkan Braithwaite, George Megalogenis,
Leigh Sales John Zubrzycki Annaleese Jochems Fiona Patten
When Leigh Sales What do we mean by Oyinkan Braithwaite’s In a world seemingly
experienced a terrible, magic? And what is it deliciously disturbing bereft of strong leadership,
no good, horrible, very that draws humans so creations Ayoola a phenomenon has
bad year, she was inexorably to the idea and Korede cover up emerged of individuals
moved to examine how of it? John Zubrzycki murderous crimes successfully progressing
vulnerable we all are to and Jan Golembiewski with amoral abandon. political agendas in
life-changing events, approach magic from Annaleese Jochems’ surprising and lateral
and what happens different perspectives Cynthia is a memorable ways. Co-founder of
thereafter. When the but both explore monster whose Iceland’s Pirate Party,
worst happens, what humanity’s need to obsession has fatal accidental politician and
comes next? Featuring step into the unknown consequences she activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir
interviews with some of and embrace a sense casually shrugs off. and Australia’s Reason
Australia’s best-known of deep wonder. Their books My Sister Party Leader and member
and most resilient John’s The Empire of the Serial Killer and of Victoria’s Legislative
survivors, Enchantment studies Baby are gleeful taut Council Fiona Patten
Any Ordinary Day picks the role magic has thrillers with humour as found ways to advance
up the story when the played in Indian culture black as tar. their agendas without
media has moved on, across centuries. parliamentary majorities.
when individual trauma Jan went on his own Chair: Victoria Purman They are joined by
becomes yesterday’s personal adventure to Australia’s Explainer-in-
news. find magic in Africa. Chief George Megalogenis
to analyse this creative
Chair: George Chair: Michael and increasingly common
Megalogenis Williams political trend.
Chair: Gabrielle Chan
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 21
21Day Two
Sun 3 Mar Afternoon
1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm
East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Nine Pints Now We Shall Diasporic Writing the
and Other Be Entirely Dreaming: Holocaust
Stories Free India from Afar
Sohaila Abdulali, Morris Gleitzman,
Sujatha Gidla, Preti Bram Presser, Maria
Rose George Andrew Miller Taneja Tumarkin
It can save us or kill Costa Award-winning For many Australians, As survivors of the
us; it is revered and author Andrew Miller India is a place of 20th Century’s greatest
feared across the returns to Adelaide great fascination, but crime slowly slip away,
globe; it is the world’s with Now We Shall Be also of mystery. Using accounts of the Holocaust
most valuable liquid, Entirely Free. Following very different forms, are critical to ensure its
and about nine pints a disastrous campaign three authors of Indian memory stays alive. Bram
of it are in us all. Rose against Napoleon’s heritage have written Presser’s The Book of
George’s Nine Pints, soldiers in Spain, a compelling accounts Dirt has been celebrated
is a fascinating and British solider comes of life in India. Sujatha for its delicate weaving of
unexpected odyssey home to recover. As his Gidla’s personal history history and myth. Maria
through the science body heals, his mind and memoir, Preti Tumarkin writes the stories
and culture of blood. does not, and, instead of Taneja’s meticulously of survivors struggling to
From the economics returning to his battalion, researched epic novel communicate the gaping
of blood donorship, to he embarks on a journey and Sohaila Abdulali’s horror of the Holocaust to
the fight against HIV, in search of peace, that pointed essays on complacent Australians.
to the rediscovery of becomes a terrifying gender relations each Children’s Laureate
the medical leech, fight to the death. deliver fantastic insight Morris Gleitzman’s
blood, Rose argues, A deeply satisfying into contemporary acclaimed Once series
is always political. combination of India and the dramatic movingly introduces
compelling characters, inequality with which it younger readers to
Chair: Robyn Williams lush language and still grapples. its trauma.
rollicking story.
Chair: John Zubrzycki Chair: Tali Lavi
Chair: Michael Williams
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Red Birds The Dawn of Painter to Queerstories
Eurasia the King
Guests include
Teddy Dunn, Melissa
Lucashenko, Rick
Mohammed Hanif Bruno Maçães Amy Sackville Morton & Joelle Taylor
Described as the In his unique blend Acclaimed novelist “There’s more to being
foremost observer of history, diplomacy Amy Sackville is hailed queer than coming out
of Pakistan’s and vivid tales from for her rich, rhapsodic and getting married.”
contradictions and his overland journey language. Reminiscent Maeve Marsden’s
absurdities, Mohammed across Europe and of the work of Hilary Queerstories events
Hanif was longlisted for Asia, The Dawn of Mantel, Painter to the are passionately
the Man Booker Prize Eurasia, Portugal’s King is a dense and supported around
for his debut novel, The former Minister immersive account of the country and make
Case of the Exploding for Europe, Bruno the life and times of the their overdue Adelaide
Mangoes. His new book Maçães, argues that great Baroque painter debut at Writers’ Week.
Red Birds is an incisive the best word for the Diego Velázquez in the Queerstories invites
satire of US foreign emerging global order court of Spain’s King a diverse line-up of
policy - its never-ending is Eurasian. With the Philip IV. Sumptuous LGBTQI+ writers to
wars in, and wanton publication of his and stylish, Sackville the stage to share an
destruction of, the new book on China, brilliantly evokes unexpected tale - a
Middle East. Wildly Belt and Road, Bruno Velázquez’s genius and reflection on pride,
audacious, darkly comic reveals himself to the torment of an artist prejudice, love and
and uncompromising, be one of the most ensnared in a web of laughter; on battles
Red Birds is a Catch 22 original and perceptive courtly power. fought and lives
for our time. thinkers on the world’s well lived.
shifting geopolitics. Chair: Nicole Abadee
Chair: Claire Nichols Host: Maeve Marsden
Chair: Deb Whitmont
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 23
23FEATURED
WRITERS Day Three
AUSTRALIA Mon 4 Mar Morning
Peter Goldsworthy
David Malouf
J.P. Pomare
Ben Quilty 9.30am 9.30am
Maria Tumarkin East Stage West Stage
Don Watson
Fiona Wright
Markus Zusak
CANADA
Esi Edugyan
Sarah Henstra
GERMANY
Carolin Emcke
ICELAND
Unreliable The World
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Narrators Was Whole
INDIA
Sujatha Gidla
IRAQ Annaleese Jochems,
Ahmed Saadawi J. P. Pomare Fiona Wright
NEW ZEALAND
Annaleese Jochems Poe’s William Wilson. The World Was Whole
Nabokov’s Humbert is Fiona Wright’s
NIGERIA Humbert. J. D. Salinger’s follow-up to her award-
Ben Okri
Holden Caulfield. winning 2015 essay
Unreliable narrators collection, Small Acts
SOUTH AFRICA are unsettling guides of Disappearance.
through the stories they Shortlisted for the 2018
Ndaba Mandela tell, fooling themselves, Prime Minister’s Literary
others, their readers or Award for poetry for
SYRIA a combination of the Domestic Interior, Fiona
Kassem Eid three. J.P. Pomare’s is one of Australia’s
disturbing page-turner most lucid writers on
UNITED KINGDOM Call Me Evie and interiority and self,
Andrew Miller Annaleese Jochems’ concerned with the small
Amy Sackville obsession-fueled Baby moments of life and the
Preti Taneja feature discomfiting and spaces we inhabit. A deft
Joelle Taylor unstable narrators, who blend of memoir, social
distort and refract the commentary, essay and
UNITED STATES truth, filling readers with poetry, Fiona’s writing
OF AMERICA enjoyably compulsive is elegant, incisive and
doubt as their tales profoundly empathetic.
Paul Bloom
progress.
Carl Zimmer
Chair: Farrin Foster
Chair: Geordie
Williamson Fiona Wright is supported by the
Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
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War and its Ants Among Going to the She Has Her
Aftermath Elephants: Mountain: Mother’s
An Untouchable Life Lessons from Laugh
Family and the My Grandfather
Making of Modern
India
Kassem Eid,
Ahmed Saadawi Sujatha Gidla Ndaba Mandela Carl Zimmer
Despite Australia’s “My stories, my family’s “Going to the Mountain” New York Times
sometime military stories, were not stories is the phrase used for columnist and award-
complicity, the visceral in India. They were the initiation ceremony winning author Carl
reality of the wars that just life.” Ants Among of Xhosa boys into Zimmer is one of the
populate the pages of Elephants tells the story manhood, a ceremony world’s most acclaimed
our newspapers are of a family and a nation: Ndaba Mandela was science writers. His
easily ignored as distant a moving account of led through by his new book, She Has Her
problems confronting Gidla’s family, from the Grandfather, Nelson. Mother’s Laugh, is an
someone else. For Iraqi life of her grandparents Rich with the tribal exploration of the most
novelist Ahmed Saadawi to her own, and the wisdom and Xhosa intimate mystery of all -
and Syrian civilian intractable reality that, folktales Nelson held how our ancestors help
journalist Kassem Eid, in India, caste is fate. so dear, Going to the make us who we are
the wars are in their Even as momentous Mountain is an intimate today. Shortlisted for
homeland and on their change transforms story of the man behind the 2018 Baillie Gifford
doorstep. Ahmed’s India, Ants Among the myth, and a candid, Award for non-fiction,
Frankenstein in Baghdad Elephants is a visceral insightful account of She Has Her Mother’s
and Kassem’s My and sobering reminder growing up with South Laugh forces you to
Country offer different of how discrimination Africa’s first Black reconsider what you
but equally urgent and segregation President. think you know about
accounts of life in endure. genetics and heredity.
cities under siege. Chair: Anton Enus
Chair: Jeff Sparrow Chair: Robyn Williams
Chair: Linda Jaivin
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 25
25Day Three
Mon 4 Mar Afternoon
1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm
East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Global Frenzies: The Red Word The Storied Hazel Rowley
Caught in an Past Lecture
Emotional Storm
Paul Bloom, Carolin Esi Edugyan, Andrew
Emcke, Don Watson Sarah Henstra Miller, Amy Sackville Maria Tumarkin
Are we caught in a As her sophomore life Of her novel Painter to Maria Tumarkin delivers
worldwide corrosive begins, Karen enjoys the King, Amy Sackville the biennial lecture in
emotional storm? the heady embrace of writes, “Painting, memory of historian
Subject to a dangerous new friends, ideas and like writing, has a Hazel Rowley. Maria’s
kind of global mob rule? independence. In love peculiar and essential most recent book,
In a polarised world with a frat boy, seduced relationship with time, the award-winning
buffeted by entrenched by the intellects of with the creation Axiomatic, was
and extreme emotions, her spirited feminist outliving the creator celebrated as one of
our panel of considered friends, the enthusiastic and their world”. Amy is the most significant
thinkers, philosopher didacticism of campus joined by Esi Edugyan books of 2018. A
Carolin Emcke, life soon finds Karen and Andrew Miller to unique combination
psychologist Paul torn between two discuss how fiction of narrative, essay,
Bloom and author Don bitterly polarised camps. rewinds time and brings and reportage, this
Watson examine how Winner of the Canadian past worlds back to extraordinary collection
destructive emotions Governor General’s life. They ponder the is a profound and
seize hold of individuals Award for fiction, Sarah insight fiction provides empathetic exploration
and communities and Henstra’s The Red Word into yesteryear, reviving of trauma, humanity
how we can temper is a brilliant, take-no- forgotten stories and and endurance. Maria’s
their impact, and reach prisoners account of rendering characters lecture will be followed
across the emotional rape culture on campus. human again. by the announcement
divide. of the Hazel Rowley
Chair: Lucia Chair: Tali Lavi Literary Fellowship.
Chair: Paul Daley Osborne-Crowley
Esi Edugyan is supported
Carolin Emcke is supported Supported by Canada Council by Canada Council
by Goethe Institut Australia
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Ben Quilty: We That Are Poetry Reading Bridge of Clay
Art, Advocacy Young
and Ambition Peter Goldsworthy,
Birgitta Jónsdóttir,
David Malouf, Ben
Okri, Joelle Taylor,
Ben Quilty Preti Taneja Fiona Wright Markus Zusak
Ben Quilty is one A modern day King Lear Adelaide Writers’ Markus Zusak’s last
of Australia’s set in contemporary Week features an book, The Book Thief,
most acclaimed India, Preti Taneja’s extraordinary array of spent more than a
contemporary artists. extraordinary novel We international poets. decade on the New York
To mark his first major That Are Young tells From Man Booker Prize Times bestseller list and
survey exhibition at the the colossal power winner Ben Okri, to was adapted into a film
Art Gallery of South struggle between a one of Australia’s most starring Geoffrey Rush.
Australia, we interrogate billionaire patriarch and celebrated poets David His much anticipated
and celebrate Ben’s his three wildly different Malouf, alongside a new novel is Bridge
contribution to our daughters. Epic in nominee for the 2018 of Clay. Full of wit and
cultural life, from his scope and fearlessly Prime Minister’s Literary great compassion, this
work as a war artist ambitious, the award- Award for Poetry – tale of five brothers and
in Afghanistan, to his winning We That Are Fiona Wright; they are their quest to uncover
heartbreaking advocacy Young explores the joined by Adelaide’s the secret behind their
of Andrew Chan and clash between old and own Peter Goldsworthy, father’s disappearance
Myan Sukumaran, to new India and offers a Icelandic “poetician” and unwelcome return
his championing of panoramic, complex Birgitta Jónsdóttir and reverberates with loss,
the refugee children portrait of one of the spoken word firebrand grief and love.
of Syria enshrined in world’s most dynamic Joelle Taylor to share
Home: Drawings by nations. readings of their Chair: Alice Pung
Syrian Children. chosen poems.
Chair: Michael Williams
Chair: Dominic Knight Fiona Wright supported
by the Prime Minister’s
Literary Award
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 27Calendar
East Stage West Stage
Navigating Darkness Stephanie Bishop &
9.30am Speaking Up Gillian Triggs
Carrie Tiffany
Kids’ Day 9.30am-3.30pm
10.45am My Country Kassem Eid My Sister the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
DAY
Life Writing Trent Dalton, Future D. Fidel &
O 12 pm Washington Black Esi Edugyan
Joelle Taylor
N 1.15pm The Freedom Artist Ben Okri
Talking Sideways Reg Dodd & Malcolm
McKinnon
E 2.30pm A Memoir Kerry O’Brien The Fragments Toni Jordan
Sat A League of Our Own George Megalogenis
2 Mar 3.45pm An Open Book David Malouf
& Bob Murphy
5pm How We Disappeared Jing-Jing Lee Woo’s Wonderful World of Maths Eddie Woo
9.30am How We Desire Carolin Emcke Run for Your Life Hon. Bob Carr
The Allure of Magic Jan Golembiewski & John
Any Ordinary Day Leigh Sales
MYA Day 10am-4.30pm
10.45am
DAY Zubrzycki
T 12 pm
Gleefully Wicked Women Oyinkan
Braithwaite & Annaleese Jochems
Leading from the Edge Birgitta Jónsdóttir,
George Megalogenis & Fiona Patten
W 1.15pm Nine Pints and Other Stories Rose George Now We Shall Be Entirely Free Andrew Miller
O 2.30pm
Diasporic Dreaming Sohaila Abdulali,
Sujatha Gidla & Preti Taneja
Writing the Holocaust Morris Gleitzman,
Bram Presser & Maria Tumarkin
Sun
3 Mar 3.45pm Red Birds Mohammed Hanif The Dawn of Eurasia Bruno Maçães
5pm Painter to the King Amy Sackville Queerstories with host Maeve Marsden
Unreliable Narrators Annaleese Jochems
9.30am The World Was Whole Fiona Wright
DAY & J. P. Pomare
T
War and its Aftermath Kassem Eid &
10.45am Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla
Ahmed Saadawi
H 12 pm Going to the Mountain Ndaba Mandela She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
R 1.15pm
Global Frenzies Paul Bloom, Carolin Emcke
& Don Watson
The Red Word Sarah Henstra
E 2.30pm
The Storied Past Esi Edugyan, Andrew
Hazel Rowley Lecture Maria Tumarkin
E 3.45pm
Miller & Amy Sackville
Art, Advocacy & Ambition Ben Quilty We That Are Young Preti Taneja
Mon
4 Mar
5pm Poetry Reading Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak
28 adelaidefestival.com.auEast Stage West Stage
9.30am
Writers on Writers Bernadette Brennan, Countries’ Chasm Gabrielle Chan,
Ceridwen Dovey Sarah Smarsh, & Don Watson
DAY
10.45am Stern Justice Adam Wakeling Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi
F 12 pm
Approaching China Hon. Bob Carr,
Bruno Maçães & Richard McGregor
Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko
O The Internet’s Evil Twin Eileen Ormsby
The Absurdity of War Mohammed Hanif &
U
1.15pm
Will Mackin
Remembering Myall Creek Aunty Sue Communicating Complexity Rose George &
R 2.30pm
Blacklock & Lyndall Ryan Carl Zimmer
Tue 3.45pm Potent Memories Gina Apostol & WTF Australia? Bernard Keane, George
5 Mar Jing-Jing Lee Megalogenis & Katharine Murphy
5pm
Rise of the Right Carolin Emcke, Nancy Journeys and Place Future D. Fidel, Moreno
MacLean & Jeff Sparrow Giovannoni & Sisonke Msimang
9.30am
These Disunited States Gina Apostol, The Criminal Element Chris Hammer &
Damien Cave & Nancy MacLean Mads Peder Nordbo
DAY 10.45am 2062 Toby Walsh The Children’s House Alice Nelson
F South Africa Rising Ndaba Mandela,
Against Empathy Paul Bloom
I
12 pm
Sisonke Msimang & Marlene Van Niekerk
V 1.15pm The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai Best We Forget Peter Cochrane
E
The Supremacy of Class Rick Morton &
2.30pm At Dusk Hwang Sok-yong
Sarah Smarsh
Wed 3.45pm Griffith Review: Writing the Country James
My Country David Marr
6 Mar Bradley, Jane Gleeson-White & Tom Griffiths
5pm
Lessons from a Cinematic Life Pivotal Moments Enza Gandolfo & Andrea
David Stratton Goldsmith
The Criminal Appeal of Ms Jane Harper
9.30am You Daughters of Freedom Clare Wright
Jane Harper
10.45am
Stories from South Africa Marlene Future Tense James Bradley &
DAY van Niekerk Margaret Morgan
S 12 pm The Arsonist Chloe Hooper
Beyond the West Sohaila Abdulali &
Leta Hong Fincher
I 1.15pm Insurrecto Gina Apostol
Riding the Third Wave Soraya Chemaly,
Sarah Henstra & Natasha Stott Despoja
X 2.30pm Shell Kristina Olsson MUD Literary Prize
Thu
7 Mar 3.45pm Democracy in Chains Nancy MacLean The Edge of Memory Patrick Nunn
Other People’s History Rebecca Makkai &
5pm The Death of Noah Glass Gail Jones
Molly Murn
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 29FEATURED Day Four
WRITERS Tue 5 Mar Morning
AUSTRALIA
Aunty Sue Blacklock
Bernadette Brennan 9.30am 9.30am
Hon. Bob Carr East Stage West Stage
Gabrielle Chan
Ceridwen Dovey
Future D. Fidel
Moreno Giovannoni
Bernard Keane
Melissa Lucashenko
Richard McGregor
George Megalogenis
Sisonke Msimang
Katharine Murphy
Eileen Ormsby
Lyndall Ryan Writers on Countries’
Jeff Sparrow
Adam Wakeling Writers Chasm:
Don Watson The Urban-Rural
Divide
GERMANY
Carolin Emcke Gabrielle Chan,
Bernadette Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, Don
IRAQ Ceridwen Dovey Watson
Ahmed Saadawi
PAKISTAN It is beguiling to read one Does Real Australia live
great writer exploring in the Canberra Bubble
Mohammed Hanif
the work of another. or in Weatherboard and
PHILIPPINES To read a thoughtful Iron? Is Real America
account of a writer’s life, Red or Blue? In a time
Gina Apostol of their writings, and the where binary divisions
impact they have had, is seem to define so much
PORTUGAL illuminating. Bernadette of our identities, is the
Bruno Maçães Brennan’s award- biggest division of all
winning biography of between a nation’s
SINGAPORE Helen Garner provides cities and the rest?
Jing-Jing Lee a rich literary portrait of Gabrielle Chan (Rusted
her much-loved subject. Off), Sarah Smarsh
UNITED KINGDOM Ceridwen Dovey’s (Heartland) and Don
intimate account of her - Watson (The Bush)
Rose George and her mother’s - deep ponder the myths of
engagement with J.M. a country’s heartland,
UNITED STATES
Coetzee’s work is lucid, and the neglected class
OF AMERICA
learned and revealing. that lives there.
Will Mackin
Nancy MacLean Chair: David Marr Chair: Ashley Hay
Sarah Smarsh
Carl Zimmer Supported by the Copyright
Agency Cultural Fund
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Stern Justice: Frankenstein Approaching Too Much Lip
The Forgotten Story
of Australia, Japan
in Baghdad China:
and the Pacific War Hug the Panda or
Crimes Trials Slay the Dragon?
Hon. Bob Carr, Bruno
Maçães, Richard
Adam Wakeling Ahmed Saadawi McGregor Melissa Lucashenko
While the Nuremburg Ahmed Saadawi is one Australia’s official Prodigal daughter
Trials are rightly of Iraq’s most exciting approach to China Kerry returns to find her
renowned for bringing voices. His latest has been criticised family in crisis. Patriarch
Nazis to justice, the book Frankenstein as contradictory if Owen is dying, bent
Pacific War Crimes in Baghdad won the not confused. Our Mayor Buckley is eyeing
Trials are less well International Prize for biggest trading off their ancestral lands,
known. Australia was Arabic Fiction and partner, we welcome brother Ken is as bitter
the prime force behind was shortlisted for the their business but not as ever, and sister
the establishment Man Booker Prize for their investment. We Donna is still missing.
of the Tribunals that International Fiction. worry at their growing And now avowed
sought to hold the A painful, powerful, influence in our region lesbian Kerry is falling
Japanese to account blackly comic take on even as we smoothed for a white man. Fierce,
for the atrocities Shelley’s masterpiece, their path with past sexy and laugh-out-
committed in WWII. Frankenstein in cuts to our foreign aid. loud funny, Too Much
Raising important Baghdad reveals Bruno Maçães, Richard Lip tells of violence and
questions of justice, the surrealism of McGregor and Bob Carr redemption, family and
vengeance, and life in contemporary are expert observers country and confirms
who bears ultimate Baghdad and is a stark of China: they examine Melissa Lucashenko
responsibility for a reminder of the tragic its growing might and as one of our best and
nation’s crimes, Stern and dramatic events its strategies to assert bravest writers.
Justice is an impressive the American invasion dominion.
account of a neglected unleashed. Chair: Jennifer Mills
part of history. Chair: Linda Jaivin
Chair: Lur Alghurabi
Chair: Rick Sarre
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 31
31Day Four
Tue 5 Mar Afternoon
1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm
East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
The Internet’s The Absurdity Remembering Communicating
Evil Twin of War Myall Creek Complexity
Mohammed Hanif, Aunty Sue Blacklock, Rose George,
Eileen Ormsby Will Mackin Lyndall Ryan Carl Zimmer
We have blithely Writing of his On June 10, 1838, When nuance is
integrated the Internet experiences as a soldier around thirty Wirrayaraay shunned for black
into all aspects of in the depths of Iraq men, women and children and white polarities,
our lives - a tool for and Afghanistan for his were massacred at Myall the capacity to
communication, a acclaimed short story Creek, NSW. Unusually, communicate complex
source of information collection Bring Out the eleven of the assassins ideas and explore
and a convenient Dog, Will Mackin said were tried for murder. abstract hypotheses
marketplace. But there his core objective was Amid great controversy, is more important
is another side. Eileen “to try to capture the seven were hanged. Co- than ever. Two of the
Ormsby has visited weirdness”. A former editor of Remembering world’s best non-fiction
the dark underbelly of pilot in the Pakistani Myall Creek Lyndall Ryan writers, Carl Zimmer
a shadow Internet of Air Force, Mohammed and its Foreword co- (She Has Her Mother’s
depravity, drugs and Hanif’s Red Birds is a author and Wirrayaraay Laugh) and Rose
danger. The fascinating surreal savage satire descendant Aunty Sue George (Nine Pints),
and scarifying result is on the Middle East’s Blacklock reflect on the argue the case for
The Darkest Web: ceaseless wars. They impact of this terrible science and expertise,
Drugs, Death and discuss their celebrated act of violence and the and discuss how they
Destroyed Lives, books and war’s challenge of Australia’s make challenging
an addictive and essential absurdity. ongoing journey towards ideas accessible to the
enlightening journey remembrance and curious layperson.
into the Internet’s Chair: Geordie reconciliation.
unimaginable Williamson Chair: Tania Meyer
extremities. Chair: Paul Daley
Will Mackin is supported by the
Chair: Dominic Knight Consulate of the United States
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
Potent WTF Australia? Rise of Journeys and
Memories How Australia’s the Right Place
politics let us down.
Bernard Keane, Carolin Emcke, Future D. Fidel,
Gina Apostol, George Megalogenis, Nancy MacLean, Moreno Giovannoni,
Jing-Jing Lee Katharine Murphy Jeff Sparrow Sisonke Msimang
In the ingenious Five Prime Ministers Across the globe, Powerful accounts of
Insurrecto, Gina in five years. A right-wing populist lives straddling countries
Apostol puts the Government unable movements are on the tell of the dislocation
“unremembered” to govern. Former rise. The likes of Trump of life in a state of exile,
Philippine-American leaders sniping in the US, Duterte in and the courage of
war sharply on display from the sidelines. the Philippines, Orbán imagining a new home.
through an unlikely road Preference-whispering in Hungary, Erdoğan in Moreno Giovannoni
trip with a US filmmaker electing Senators with Turkey - leaders with writes tales of leaving
and her Filipino the merest skerrick anti-democratic and returning home in
translator. Jing-Jing of support. Formerly agendas and dangerous The Fireflies of Autumn.
Lee brings the horror of respected institutions rhetoric - are ascending Sisonke Msimang tells
the Japanese invasion revealed to be rife to power. What are of growing up in exile
of Singapore to sharp with base corruption the implications? For from apartheid-era
life through the moving and criminal self- geopolitics? Minority South Africa in her
story of Wang Di in How interest. WTF is going rights? Carolin Emcke memoir Always Another
We Disappeared. The on? Crikey’s Bernard (Against Hate), Nancy Country. Future D. Fidel
act of remembering, and Keane (The Mess We’re MacLean (Democracy in describes fleeing war
its political, personal In), The Guardian’s Chains) and Jeff Sparrow to find sanctuary but
and redemptive power, Katharine Murphy (Trigger Warnings) bring strangeness in Prize
is highlighted in these (On Disruption) and perspectives from Fighter.
potent novels. George Megalogenis Europe, America and
(The Football Solution) the Asia-Pacific. Chair: Alice Pung
Chair: Bernadette explain.
Brennan Chair: Dominic Knight Supported by the Copyright
Chair: Adam Suckling Agency Cultural Fund
Carolin Emcke supported by
Supported by the Copyright Goethe Institut Australia
Agency Cultural Fund
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 33
33Day Five
Wed 6 Mar Morning
FEATURED 9.30am
East Stage
9.30am
West Stage
WRITERS
AUSTRALIA
James Bradley
Damien Cave
Peter Cochrane
Enza Gandolfo
Jane Gleeson-White
Andrea Goldsmith
Tom Griffiths
Chris Hammer These The Criminal
David Marr Disunited Element
Rick Morton States
Sisonke Msimang
Alice Nelson Gina Apostol,
David Stratton Damien Cave, Chris Hammer,
Toby Walsh Nancy MacLean Mads Peder Nordbo
DENMARK
Mads Peder Nordbo
America has a Mads Peder Nordbo’s
PHILLIPINES violent history of The Girl Without Skin is
polarised politics and both compelling crime
Gina Apostol
aggressively antithetical fiction and a marvellous
SOUTH AFRICA views. Ugly partisan evocation of the stark
divisions are once beauty of Greenland.
Marlene van Niekerk again fuelling a toxic The dusty aridity of the
Ndaba Mandela political culture. What Australian bush in Chris
are the implications for Hammer’s Scrublands
SOUTH KOREA
American society? And could not be further
Hwang Sok-yong could there be global removed from Nordbo’s
consequences? Duke icy setting but it too
UNITED STATES University Professor is pivotal to the story.
OF AMERICA Nancy MacLean, Isolation, ratcheting
Paul Bloom Australian Bureau chief tension and charismatic
Nancy MacLean of The New York Times journalists investigating
Rebecca Makkai Damien Cave and US- old crimes are common
Sarah Smarsh based Phillipines-born to both these
author Gina Apostol compulsively readable
discuss the origin and murder mysteries.
impact of the egregious
disunity confronting Chair: Victoria Purman
America today.
Chair: Don Watson
34 adelaidefestival.com.au10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm
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East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage
2062: The Children’s South Africa Against
The World That House Rising Empathy:
AI Made The Case for Rational
Compassion
Ndaba Mandela,
Sisonke Msimang,
Toby Walsh Alice Nelson Marlene van Niekerk Paul Bloom
2062 is the year by It is 1997 and scholar It is twenty-five years When writing his witty
which we will have Marina observes since apartheid was condemnation of
built machines as Constance, a young dismantled in South empathy, Paul Bloom
intelligent as us. So says Rwandan refugee, walk Africa. What have discovered being
Professor of Artificial away from her crying been the successes against it was like
Intelligence Toby Walsh son on the streets of and challenges of the “being against kittens”.
and the majority of Harlem. There follows post-Apartheid era? But, he argues, empathy
his colleagues. What a life-changing series Co-founder of is a poor moral guide in
will society look like in of events - “A strange the Africa Rising almost all realms of life.
this Brave New World? unfolding”, says Marina, Foundation (and It biases us in favour of
Described as one of the looking back later. grandson of Nelson) individuals who remind
rock stars of the digital From the kibbutz of Ndaba Mandela, us of ourselves, while
revolution, Toby brings Israel, to the horrors of shortlisted author numbing us to the plight
a deep knowledge of the Rwandan civil war, for the International of thousands. Using
technology to argue to the brownstones of Man Booker Prize, the latest scientific
the future can be bright Harlem, Alice Nelson’s Marlene van Niekerk research, Against
tomorrow if we get the exquisite The Children’s and author Sisonke Empathy mounts a
settings right today. House is a moving Msimang reflect on the provocative, cogent
meditation on trauma transformation of their case for using our
Chair: Scott Ludlam and loss, motherhood country in the last heads over our hearts.
and identity. quarter century and
the progress still to Chair: Jon Jureidini
Chair: Susan Wyndham be made.
Chair: Sharon Davis
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