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Literature
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Geoff Dyer | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Speaking at Adelaide Writers' Week, UK author Geoff Dyer is at his sparkling, intelligent and entertaining best as he reads from his latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and discusses his writing with host J.M. Coetzee and the audience. Adelaide Writers' Week, March 20... » play video
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Anna Enquist | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Anna Enquist is one of the most popular writers in the Netherlands. She trained in piano at the academy of music in The Hague and at the same time studied psychology in Leiden. When she made her debut as a poet in 1991, she was working as a psychoanalyst. Since then she has devoted m... » play video
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Irvine Welsh | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session, Scottish author Irvine Welsh talks about his writing career and gives an engrossing short story reading.Irvine Welsh is the author of nine works of fiction. His first novel Trainspotting (1993) inspired both outrage and critical acclaim and... » play video
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Marieke Hardy | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2The way we read is changing more profoundly now than at any time since the invention of movable type. E-books, electronic ink, digital readers; the book is reinventing itself at a dizzying rate. But what does the future hold for readers, for publishers and for writers? In this inaugur... » play video
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Tom Keneally | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally speaks about why, for him, the novel is the greatest form of writing. Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark (later made into the Aca... » play video
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William Dalrymple | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
In his highly entertaining Meet the Author session at the Adelaide Writers' Week, acclaimed Scottish author William Dalrymple speaks about his many adventures as a travel writer and historian, and also performs some readings of his work. Dalrymple is the author of seven award-winning books, incl... » play video
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Chloe Hooper | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia's leading writers and storytellers come together to tell the stories that have been handed down to them. In this section of the program, Christos Tsiolkas, John... » play video
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Cate Kennedy | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia's leading writers and storytellers come together to tell the stories that have been handed down to them. At this glittering occasion, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy,... » play video
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Raimond Gaita | Melbourne | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award Lecture at the State Library of New South Wales, author and moral philosopher Raimond Gaita discusses the nature of 'truth' as it applies to biography and autobiography. With particular reference to his own memoir Romulus, My Father, Gaita expl... » play video
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Alex Miller | Melbourne | Nov. 2009
With a lovely and appropriately moving speech, Peter Beilharz launches Alex Miller's new novel, Lovesong. He is followed by a brief, gracious acceptance by Alex Miller. Readings Hawthorn, October 2009... » play video
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