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CULTURE: Booker Prize

 The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf

CULTURE

The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf

Thomas Keneally

Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally...

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 The Stranger's Child. Alan Hollinghurst in Conversation

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The Stranger's Child. Alan Hollinghurst in Conversation

Acclaimed British author Alan Hollinghurst discusses his novel The Stranger's Child with ABC RN's Michael Cathcart. They talk about...

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 A standard conversation with DBC Pierre (p2)

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A standard conversation with DBC Pierre (p2)

Part 1 | Part 2 Darkly comic Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) holds forth at this wine-drinking, perfume-spraying early...

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 A standard conversation with DBC Pierre

CULTURE

A standard conversation with DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre

Part 1 | Part 2Darkly comic Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) holds forth at this wine-drinking, perfume-spraying early...

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End of History: Yann Martel's 'Beatrice and Virgil'

Inga Clendinnen

Not many people had heard of Yann Martel, the implausibly named Canadian novelist, before he won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for an...

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 The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf (p2)

CULTURE

The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf (p2)

Thomas Keneally

Part 1 | Part 2 In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally...

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 MJ Hyland in conversation with Michael Williams. Melbourne Writers Festival

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MJ Hyland in conversation with Michael Williams. Melbourne Writers Festival

Part 1 | Part 2M.J. Hyland returns to Melbourne and the Melbourne Writers Festival with her new novel This is How under her arm. In...

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 MJ Hyland in conversation with Michael Williams (p2)

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MJ Hyland in conversation with Michael Williams (p2)

Part 1 | Part 2 M.J. Hyland returns to Melbourne and the Melbourne Writers Festival with her new novel This is How under her arm. In...

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Brought to Booker: Man Booker International

Delia Falconer

“I’ve been lucky to be considered a major writer by writing short stories,” Alice Munro told the Observer in 2005. And,...

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CULTURE

Ismail Kadare’s The Successor

Simon Caterson

“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston Churchill’s assessment of Russia in 1939 applies equally to the Albania of...

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