Festivals: Writers Festival
WORLD
Peter Godwin on Zimbabwe and The Fear
Peter Godwin, born and raised in Africa, is perhaps the world's most respected commentator and reporter on contemporary Zimbabwe. In...
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CULTURE
Portraying evil. Michael Robotham, Glen Duncan and Alan Carter
At the Perth Writers Festival, acclaimed authors Glen Duncan, Michael Robotham and Alan Carter consider evil: where does it come from and...
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WORLD
Collateral Damage. Kim Barker and Paul Ham
Civilians are often caught in cross-fire, but what about when they are deliberately targeted? Paul Ham and Kim Barker discuss (with chair...
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CULTURE
The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom. Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's most loved novelists - and most powerful orators. In the annual Alan Missen oration and the...
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MEDIA
Essaying Opinions. Marieke Hardy, Richard Flanagan & Robert Manne
At this Melbourne Writers Festival event, three renowned essay writers debate the health of the essay form in Australia. Do Richard...
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CULTURE
Plotting the perfect crime. Michael Robotham and Tess Gerritsen
Are great crime writers non-practising criminals?Two masters, international bestseller Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli and Isles novels) and Ned...
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ENVIRONMENT
Ann Patchett at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Ann Patchett's Bel Canto won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and Run was a New York Times bestseller. At the Melbourne...
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MEDIA
Birds of a Feather. Jonathan Franzen and Sean Dooley
World-renowned author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) is a keen bird-watcher and conservationist, as is Sean Dooley (The Big...
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SOCIETY
1835: The Founding of Melbourne. James Boyce in Conversation
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney,...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Hamlet's BlackBerry: William Powers on Life in the Digital Age
Hamlet’s BlackBerry, the New York Times bestseller by William Powers, is about the impact of new technologies on our life. It offers a new...
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WORLD
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Struggle for Democracy. Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya shot to prominence in 2005 as a female parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan. Since then, she's defied death...
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WORLD
Eliot Weinberger in conversation with Ramona Koval
Political commentator, translator and poetry editor Eliot Weinberger is joined by Ramona Koval to discuss the extraordinary breadth of his...
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MEDIA
Power Without Responsibility: The Australian – Manne & Beecher
Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper...
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CULTURE
All That I Am. Anna Funder In Conversation
Anna Funder
Anna Funder is the author of the bestselling Stasiland, an examination of life in communist East Germany and the winner of the 2004 Samuel...
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CULTURE
Kate Grenville In Conversation With Ramona Koval
Kate Grenville
In Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville returns to the family at the centre of her best-known work, the internationally bestselling novel The...
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SOCIETY
Why We Still Need Feminism. Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham
Writer and feminist Sophie Cunningham has watched with growing frustration as women are increasingly marginalised: in the arts, in the...
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MEDIA
The art of the interview. Phillip Adams and Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval and Phillip Adams, two of Australia's leading broadcasters, have met and talked with some of literature’s most fascinating...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Why we lie. Dorothy Rowe with Leah Giarratano
From everyday fibs to grand-scale public deception, renowned psychologist Dorothy Rowe explores the reasons we lie and constructions of...
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WORLD
Andrew O'Hagan on The West
Twice Man Booker-nominated novelist Andrew O'Hagan delivers the closing address at the Perth Writers Festival 2011. Andrew O’Hagan grew up...
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CULTURE
Science is the new art. Annie Proulx and Tim Flannery
Annie Proulx (The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain, Bird Cloud ) has long been influenced by the natural world, making her home on 640...
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