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 Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden / Free Entry Image: Shane Reid 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.

1 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 OPENING EVENT follow-up to the success of her first. Jo’s 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 NIGERIA/USA PAKISTAN AUSTRALIA 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 There truly is something for everyone within Duration 1 hr $25, Friends $20, join us for six wonderful days when some of the whose book A Woman Like Her explores the its program, so I look forward to seeing you Conc $15 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

2 3 Breakfast Festival Celebrating With Papers Forums 60 Years

2 – 6 Mar & Sat 29 Feb – Sun 15, 8am 10 – 13 Mar, 12.30pm The Star Kitchen & Bar, Sat 29 Feb, 6.15pm The Star Kitchen & Bar, Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Festival Centre 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. commissioned essays from artists, The perfect start to your Writers’ Week day 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 An essential addition to the bookshelves Join Tom Wright and a panel of informed Access Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March, then of Adelaide Festival aficionados, this guests to contemplate the news of the 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 For more information visit INFORMATION INFORMATION adelaidefestival.com.au Duration 1 hr Access Tickets Free Duration 1 hr Access Tickets Free

4 KIDS’ DAY ON THE MAINSTAGE AT 9am! Sat 29 Feb

9am 9.45am 9.30am 10.45am 12pm East Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage

Andy Griffiths Julia Donaldson THE YIELD DAMASCUS A LADDER TO BOB HAWKE: ADDRESSING THE SKY MODERN AUSTRALIA UK THE COMPLETE 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 AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA IRELAND AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA 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 new novel, The Yield – remarkable yet disparate For the full into the plot of his first Prime Minister, history. Based on years Kids’ Day sad and angry, wise and body of work is the bestseller. With shades Blanche mourned her of forensic research, program see uplifting – documents ambition, bold vision of Patricia Highsmith, husband, and found this impressive book is page 30. 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.

7 Sat 29 Feb

1.15pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 5pm East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage 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 LITERATURE THAN YOU THINK 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.

8 Sun 1 Mar

9.30am 10.45am 12pm 1.15pm East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage 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 THE WOODS: SELECTED WRITINGS THE SHORT LIFE OF SIZE 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: Sophie Black memoir. the challenges and the destinies they have Chair: Linda Jaivin 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 J HEAR ME ROAR! Sun 1 Mar

2pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 5pm Plane Tree Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage 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: EMPIRES AND POVERTY SAFE HERE Laniyuk, Luka Lesson WHERE THE BLOODY UNTOLD DIARIES VOL1, HELL ARE WE? AUSTRALIA BRITISH VOICES 1978–87 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

12 13 Mon 2 Mar

9.30am 10.45am 12pm 1.15pm East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage 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 THE COSSACK Tim Costello A ROHINGYA SPEAKS Damian Barr 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 14 15 TWILIGHT Mon 2 Mar TALKS

2.30pm 3.45pm 5pm 7pm East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage West Stage

A CARBON DIVIDED INNER 2020 MUD FUTURE READING, FREE FUTURE LANDS EXPLORATION LITERARY POLITICS: WRITING AND AUTHORIAL VOICE Writers’ Week live chat show PRIZE LIVING TOGETHER RECLAMATION IN A WORLD Hosted by Benjamin Law Tim Flannery Arif Anwar, Sanam TRANSFORMED BY TECH Bri Lee, Lucia Ali Cobby Eckermann 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 of the emerging cult classic Paul Takes the political paralysis has Bangladesh Liberation prize, awarded annually Founded to honour a winning Future Politics the assaults define 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 Edozien, Andrea Lawlor await us when we do. geopolitical impact. their poems. Chair: Scott Ludlam Chair: Jo Case Chair: Tom Griffiths Chair: Paul Barclay Chair: Michael Williams UK NIGERIA/USA USA

16 17 Tue 3 Mar

9.30am 10.45am 12pm 1.15pm East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage

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 18 19 TWILIGHT Tue 3 Mar TALKS

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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 AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA/UK IRAN/USA Naqvi, Peter Rose, 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 USA PAKISTAN Writers’ Week guests as they reveal 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

20 21 Wed 4 Mar

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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: HEADLINES TALK RED SISTER THE EXISTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY’S WOMEN’S LIVES 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: George for equality. human psyche. Supported by the Copyright Chair: Sophie Long Litt Woon supported Chair: Victoria Purman Agency Cultural Fund. Cunningham by NORLA - Norwegian Megalogenis Chair: Shakira Hussein Chair: Peter Rose Literature Abroad.

22 23 TWILIGHT Wed 4 Mar TALKS

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TELL ME WHY THE COMMON THE GRIFFITH POETIC PAUL TAKES GOOD WEEKEND REVIEW JUSTICE THE FORM OF AUTHORIAL VOICE A MORTAL GIRL Writers’ Week live chat show Hosted by Benjamin Law Rachel Ankeny, 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.

24 25 Thu 5 Mar

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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 SENATOR A RATIONAL WONG RESPONSE TO DRUGS David Marr Alice Robinson Vicki Hastrich Chris Fleming Antonio Buti Louise Milligan Lucy Treloar Robert Elliott Smith Donna Ward Jokha Alharthi Margaret Simons Antony Loewenstein Jennifer Caruso Mandy Whyte AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA UK AUSTRALIA OMAN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA NZ

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 26 27 TWILIGHT Thu 5 Mar TALKS

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THE THE PALACE STORMING DEEP BRAIN THE THE LESSONS Jokha Alharthi, Dennis Altman, VISIONARY OF ANGELS THE WORLD DIVING ERRATICS OF HISTORY Hannah Critchlow, Vicki DON DUNSTAN Laveau-Harvie

OMAN AUSTRALIA UK Mohammed Felicity McLean Hannah Critchlow Vicki Angela Woollacott Massoud Morsi Michael Robotham Nicola Redhouse Laveau-Harvie Christopher Clark CANADA/AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA EGYPT/DENMARK/ AUSTRALIA UK AUSTRALIA CANADA/AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA/UK AUSTRALIA BEING HUMAN South Australians are Mohammed Massoud Michael Robotham and What is the human mind? Vicki Laveau-Harvie Australian historian and Linger in the Gardens with Writers’ Week rightly proud of the Morsi is an Egyptian- Felicity McLean both Where does the brain became a debut author University of Cambridge Director Jo Dyer for our last hurrah for pioneering Premier Danish-Australian began their writing end and the mind begin? in her mid-seventies Professor Christopher 2020 as our funny, fierce and fearless who ushered in an era photographer, journalist careers as journalists Neuroscientist Hannah with her extraordinary Clark is one of the authors offer their final reflections of dynamic reform and writer. His latest book before moving into the Critchlow’s writings memoir, The Erratics. foremost experts on for the week. Addressing the Festival and established our comprises three intimate dark art of ghostwriting. include Consciousness, Returning to wintry German history. His theme of Being Human, our delightful, state as a national stories of great poetic In 2002, Michael’s a Ladybird introduction Alberta after 18 years book, The Sleepwalkers: distinguished line-up has up to 10 leader. In this first power set amongst the first novel became to the brain and how it to tend to their infirm How Europe Went to War minutes each to ponder contemporary major biography of violence and division of the subject of an works, and The Science ageing parents, Vicki in 1914, was described life and humanity in all its messy glory. Don Dunstan, historian the Palestinian/Israeli international bidding of Fate, which explores and her sister navigate by the London Review of Angela Woollacott border. In The Palace war and he is now one the extent to which our the willful cruelty Books as “breathtakingly details the great of Angels, Morsi does of the world’s most brains are hardwired. of their harsh, mad good” and described EGYPT/DENMARK/AUSTRALIA social and political not shy away from the successful crime Nicola Redhouse’s mother, and excavate politicians who “watchful CANADA UK NEW ZEALAND achievements of his shocking brutality of his writers. His latest book deeply personal memoir the past and the but unseeing, haunted Government. She characters’ world but his is Good Girl, Bad Girl. about her understanding psychological damage by dreams”, blindly Mohammed Massoud Morsi, recounts how the beautifully written stories Felicity looks set to of the brain and its she unleashed on their led their peoples into Tony McAleer, Robert Elliott Smith, progressive agenda are full of poignancy follow in Michael’s relationship with post- family. “Be glad if you a war no-one wanted. Mandy Whyte Dunstan set in South and hope and, with footsteps after her first natal depression, Unlike forget”, she writes. In this and his other Australia paved the subtlety and grace, lead novel, the compulsive the Heart, becomes a A book of unsettling celebrated books, way for a more modern his readers to a greater The Van Apfel Girls rigorous investigation honesty, tar-black Christopher explores Australia, the personal understanding of not only are Gone, became an of neuroscience and humour and welcome what history can teach costs and triumphs this volatile, contested international sensation. psychoanalysis. warmth, The Erratics us about today, and if of his life fully lived, place but also about They discuss their Together they voyage was the first memoir to remembering is enough and his contemporary who we are and who we books and astonishing into the depths of the win the Stella Prize. to avoid repeating its significance. imagine ourselves to be. career trajectories. human mind. Chair: Kerryn worst mistakes. Chair: Anthony Durkin Chair: Antony Chair: David Sly Chair: Clare Wright Goldsworthy Chair: Steven Gale Loewenstein

28 29 Kids’ Day Sat 29 Feb TORRENS TENT PROGRAM

9am – 3.15pm Torrens Tent Stage Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Time

10.30am Welcome with Sam McMahon

My Favourite Story 10.45am with Mandy Foot

Story Trove - The Tiny 10.55am Star by Mem Fox and Freya Blackwood

11.25am BREAK

My Favourite Story with 11.55am Maxine Beneba Clarke

Story Trove - Image: Shane Reid Image: 12.05pm Violet & Nothing by Fiona Burrows

Be part of a magical day of stories, performance and hands on fun as writers, performers and 12.35pm Sally Rippin illustrators take over the kids stage to enliven and excite our youngest readers. Ages 2-10.

KIDS’ DAY THE DEBORAH And, the very little 1.05pm BREAK ON THE TORRENS TWINING artists can decorate a MAINSTAGE! TENT ARTS Writers’ Week bookmark Story Trove - The Tiny to keep or give away. Andy Griffiths 1.35pm Star by Mem Fox and The story hub of Kids’ Fun FREE workshops Freya Blackwood Julia Donaldson Bookings available Day features an all-star for little artists! Make a on the day. Two of the biggest lineup of Sally Rippin, collage or zine inspired Graeme Base stars for the littlest Maxine Beneba Clarke, by Maxine Beneba 2.05pm readers ensure Graeme Base and Clarke’s Fashionista FACE Adelaide Writers’ Week Mandy Foot with MC and Daniel Burnett- PAINTING My Favourite Story starts with a bang! Sam McMahon. Don’t Gray’s Grandma Z or WITH 2.35pm miss Story Trove’s join Andrew Joyner – FIZZBUBBLE with Sally Rippin East Stage inventive world of Illustrator of Dr Seuss’s Image: Shane Reid storytelling through Horse Museum – to FREE! 9.30am – 3pm Storytelling with Maxine 2.45pm 9am Andy Griffiths live performance and create a mural for Beneba Clarke 9.45am Julia Donaldson creative play. our very own Horse Museum!

30 31 1pm 2pm 3pm Middle & Sun 1 Mar Torrens Tent Torrens Tent Torrens Tent YA Day

Writing in all its forms is celebrated in a day for Where Pioneer Women’s tweens and teens. The Garden is a relaxed backdrop Memorial Garden for music, spoken word performance and events for Tickets FREE readers aged 8 – 18 and more. Note Auslan interpreted on request IN CONVERSATION SURPRISING POWERS KINDRED PANEL 10am 11am 12pm WITH JOHN BOYNE IN ANXIOUS TIMES Torrens Tent Torrens Tent Erin Gough Torrens Tent John Boyne Wai Chim Nevo Zisin

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Acclaimed Irish writer John Discover author Wai Chim as she Erin Gough and Nevo Zisin Boyne has written 11 novels talks about her recently released join editor and author Michael for adults and six for younger novel The Surprising Power of a Earp to talk about Kindred: 12 readers including The Boy in Good Dumpling. Her soulful YA Queer #LoveOZYA Stories, a the Striped Pyjamas – a New novel explores the obligations new anthology. This inclusive York Times no.1 Bestseller, of family, the crevices of culture, and intersectional #OwnVoices adapted for a feature film, a mental wellness and the surprising anthology for teen readers features play, a ballet and an opera and power of a good dumpling. Wai’s works from 12 diverse Australian SPACE NERD SECRETS HIDDEN WEIRD, WILD, selling over 10 million copies. unique cultural heritage casts writers. It is described as a book IN THE PICTURES AMAZING! John’s most recent novel is My an original take on how different that “peels back the labels we all Amie Kaufman Graeme Base Tim Flannery Brother’s Name is Jessica that families respond to mood wear to find the people, stories tells the story of a young boy disorders and depression. and beating hearts underneath.” AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA struggling to come to terms with his sibling’s gender. Join HEAR ME ROAR! John Boyne as he discusses his For more information Join Amie Kaufman (The lluminae Graeme Base’s Animalia received Join one of the world’s greatest SLAM AND PERFORMANCE POETRY AT AWW see page 12. Files, These Broken Stars and international acclaim when it living scientists, Tim Flannery, for stories and characters. Aurora Rising) in conversation was first published in 1986 and an exploration of all that is wild and with Audrey Mason-Hyde as they has achieved cult status with wonderful about our unique planet discuss NASA, space and how worldwide sales of three million and its inhabitants. Tim’s first book for Amie’s inter-stellar imagination copies. Graeme takes us behind younger readers, Explore Your World: set her on the path to becoming the scenes to reveal the hidden Weird, Wild & Amazing, is stuffed full Capture your creativity in a story of no one of the world’s most secrets contained in classic of incredible facts and spectacular Microstory more than 50 words on the theme I Wish. acclaimed sci-fi and books such as Animalia, The illustrations that take us on a fantasy authors. Eleventh Hour and Uno’s Garden. fascinating and highly entertaining For writers 18 and under. journey across the globe. Competition For more information visit adelaidefestival.com.au/microstory-comp DEAF 12.30pm Plane Tree Stage Enter the Young Writers’ STORYTELLERS Entries close 12 February. LIVE A premiere storytelling event that places Deaf creativity and Microstory Competition! Winner announced on Sun 1 Mar at experience at the forefront. Experience the linguistic richness, 1.45pm on the Plane Tree Stage. Joanna Agius, Stuart artistry and poetry of Auslan, and the power of stories from leaders Anderson, Paul Bartlett, in the Deaf community. Presented by Writers SA. Event includes Debra Swann spoken interpretation in English. 1.45pm, Plane Tree Stage Thanks to

33 Pioneer Women’s Getting there Memorial Garden

For many years Adelaide Writers’ Week has pioneer women; and George Dodwell, an Adelaide Writers’ Week sessions held in PUBLIC TRANSPORT been held in the precinct of the Pioneer astronomer, designed the sundial. A plaque the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Women’s Memorial Garden. Since 2012 recording the opening of the garden lists are FREE and no bookings are required. Stops A2-A3 are if you travel from North the garden itself has provided a beautiful the founding trustees and is mounted on into the CBD, and Z1-Z2 are if you travel setting for Adelaide Writers’ Week events. the entrance gates. Adelaide City Council KING WILLIAM ROAD from South. maintains the garden and, alongside the In 1935, the year prior to South Australia’s Stops F1, U1, B1, Y2, W1, D, X1, X2, current trustees, is committed to ensuring The main entrance of the Garden is located Centenary, a Women’s Centenary Council C1 and C2 are also walking distance. its role in South Australia’s history. on King William Road between the Torrens representing 72 organisations raised Parade Ground and the rear of Government A short walk from the Adelaide money to fund a fitting memorial for the House in Adelaide’s CBD. Railway Station. pioneer women of the state. TORRENS PARADE GROUND Tram from Glenelg or Adelaide Five members of the Council were Thanks to Heritage South Australia. BIKE PARKING Entertainment Centre, stop at Festival Plaza, appointed to form the Pioneer Women’s Adelaide Railway Station, North Terrace. Memorial Trust. Most of the money raised Adelaide Writers’ Week provides bicycle was used to build the much needed Flying ABC RADIO ADELAIDE parking on the corner of the Torrens Doctor base in Alice Springs and the Parade Ground in the Pioneer Women’s remainder was earmarked for a memorial ABC Radio Adelaide’s Sonya Feldhoff will Memorial Garden. in Adelaide, thus the Pioneer Women’s be broadcasting live from the Pioneer Memorial Garden was established on land Women’s Memorial Garden on selected made available by Adelaide City Council. afternoons of Adelaide Writers’ Week. KING WILLIAM RO The garden was conceived by landscape Subscribe to the ABC Radio Adelaide Adelaide Oval gardener Elsie Cornish; Ola Cohn sculpted newsletter for live broadcast updates, Waikerie limestone into a symbol of station news and special events. V IC Pioneer TO Women’s RI KINT A D IVE Memorial R Garden 

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As an iconic event for our community, Some of the things we are doing to minimise we want Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Writers’ our carbon footprint: We make every effort to ensure Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Week to be exemplars of environmental Writers’ Week events are accessible to our whole audience. This • In 2019, all waste from outdoor sites was responsibility and know that we can make a vital diverted from landfill. We aim to reduce waste program is available online at adelaidefestival.com.au which and significant contribution to a future that we even further in 2020 by focussing on our indoor want our children to inherit. includes audio versions on every session page. venues We are committed to reducing our impact on • Where possible we are reusing, the environment and we are proud to become repurposing or recycling most of the the first arts festival in Australia to be certified materials used to present our Festival carbon neutral. • We are minimising our use of plastic products We will consistently measure and reduce our Wheelchair Access Sign Interpreting impacts on the environment, while offsetting • We provide bike parking at our outdoor venues the remaining carbon emissions involved in Pioneer Women’s Memorial Visit adelaidefestival.com.au presenting our arts festival. For 2020, we are offsetting all of Garden is wheelchair to download an Auslan We are working with our staff, artists, suppliers, our carbon emissions, including accessible. There is a power request form for sessions crew, volunteers, donors, sponsors and all travel and accommodation audience to ensure that sustainability is a associated with Adelaide Festival recharge station available. of your choice. key focus in everything we do. and Adelaide Writers’ Week. Generously supported by Nunn Dimos Foundation and JBS&G. National Relay Service Assistance Dogs Watering Station ABOUT THIS PROGRAM PLEASE JOIN US TO HELP Contact the Adelaide REDUCE OUR IMPACT Festival through the Available at Pioneer National Relay Service on Women’s Memorial Garden. This program is printed on carbon Walk or ride to events neutral paper, saving 2,246 kgs of CO2. if you can 133 677 then 08 8216 4444 By comparison the average Australian home or via relayservice.com.au generates 1,333kgs of CO2 per month. Whenever possible, take public This program is printed using FSC© certified transport, for more info visit paper which provides a guarantee that forest adelaidemetro.com.au products come from responsibly managed Disability Parking sources. When you see this logo you can be confident that reading it won’t mean harming Carpool when you can Limited disability parking the world’s forests. available at Torrens Parade This book is also fully recyclable, so pass it on to a friend or dispose of it thoughtfully Say no to single-use plastic, bring Grounds. into a recycling bin. your own drinking containers For booking enquiries contact [email protected] Use the three bin system provided in our venues

36 37 Live The Literati Streaming Adelaide Writers’ Week Donor Circle

Mon 2 – Thu 5 Mar Adelaide Writers’ Week is an inspiring own budget ever-increasing, we hope to event when authors from around the globe boost direct contributions from our audience and passionate readers of all ages come and supporters via this Donor Circle. Thanks to Office for Ageing Well and Remote audience members can also together to share insights, thought- The Literati supports three main aspects Seniors Card, we are able to bring Writers’ ask questions via Twitter or email. provoking conversations and indulge in all of the Adelaide Writers’ Week: Week closer to those who can’t join us things literary. But with reduced levels of in the Garden and live stream selected government funding, rising costs, and a - Provide funding for the attendance sessions from the East Stage across four desire for constant improvement, of international authors days. Live streaming is open to libraries, we need your help. - Encourage young readers schools and retirement villages across the State and all the facility needs is Our long-term commitment to Writers’ Week - Keep it free! broadband access and the technology as a free event comes at a considerable to present it. cost. Receiving only limited direct funding and a modest contribution from book sales, To become part of this passionate group of philanthropy and foreign governments, the supporters or for more information please majority (61%) of Writers’ Week costs are contact Philanthropy Manager Bernadette PARTICIPATING LIBRARIES underwritten by Adelaide Festival from its Woods, [email protected] budget. With pressures on the Festival’s or on 08 8216 4478. Adelaide City Library Cowell School Mount Barker Strathalbyn Library Community Library Community Library Aldinga Library Tea Tree Gully Anna Baillie-Karas, Rob Brookman AM & Verity Laughton,

Gallery 1855 Mount Gambier Library THANK YOU TO Alexandra Dimos & Andrew Nunn, Merry Ewing, Sam Harvey, Rick Sarre, Barmera Public Library OUR DONORS Debra Sarre, Merry Wickes, Alison Smallacombe & David Smallacombe. Library Gawler Public Library City of Unley Noarlunga Library Libraries Burnside Library Goolwa Library Park Holme Library Victor Harbor Burra Community & Hub Library Library School Library Port Adelaide Leigh Creek School Library Walkerville Library Campbelltown Community Library Library Port Augusta Public Wattle Range Mitcham Library Library Library Clare Library Service Port Broughton West Torrens Library Coober Pedy Mitcham Memorial Community Library Service School Community Library Library Salisbury Woodcroft Library Moonta Community Community Hub Cove Civic Centre Library Yankalilla Library Seaford Library Image: Shane Reid

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ADELAIDE FESTIVAL ADELAIDE FESTIVAL ADELAIDE WRITERS’ Leisa Gosling CORPORATION MANAGEMENT WEEK STAFF Production Coordinator BOARD MEMBERS Neil Armfield AO and Jo Dyer Kvitka Becker Judy Potter (Chair) Rachel Healy Director Program Coordinator Mark Roderick (Deputy Chair) Artistic Directors Suzanne Critchley CATERER Alison Beare Rob Brookman AM Program Manager David Knox Executive Director Let Them Eat Ian McRae AO Clare Sawyer Rachael Azzopardi Programmer – Young The Hon Amanda Vanstone BOOK TENT Deputy Executive Readers The Rt Hon Sandy Verschoor Director CONSULTANTS Jim Whalley Bruce McKinven Marta Davis Rachel Williams Site Designer and Jason Lake Executive Assistant & (Government Observer) Coordinator Katherine Woehlert Program Coordinator

PROGRAMMING PRODUCTION MARKETING Sarah Killey & COMMUNICATIONS Senior Philanthropy Lesley Newton Taren Hornhardt Manager Head of Programming Head of Production Michelle Reid Head of Marketing & Bernadette Woods Kate Hillgrove Melanie Selwood Communications Philanthropy Manager Program Manager Production Manager Benita Healy Katya Fedyk Tess Appleby Mark Pennington Ticketing & Data Manager Philanthropy Coordinator Program Manager Technical Consultant Laura Danesin Kirilea Salomone Sam Wright Roland Partis Marketing Executive Sponsorship Manager Executive Producer & Special Events Production Emma Williams Curator, Coordinator Annika Stennert Marketing Executive Sponsorship Coordinator Contemporary Music Jacinta Way Beatrice Jeavons Jess Thomson Production Administrator Georgia Stanley Marketing Coordinator Sponsorship Coordinator Contemporary Music Rohan Yates Daniel Lyas Producer Production Logistics Anthea Hagar Functions Coordinator Stevan Pavlovic Coordinator Publicist Classical Music Producer Lee Francis Petrina Egan FINANCE & Joel Allan Risk Consultant National Publicist CORPORATE SERVICES Logistics Coordinator Bruce Bolton Carolina Rojas Julie Orchard Production Coordinator Publicity Coordinator Elizabeth Brooks Head of Corporate Services Youth, Education & Talks Alex Hayley Brittany Pfeiffer Coordinator Production Coordinator Marketing Assistant Zarina Yusop Finance & IT Manager Aphra Walton-Humphrys David McLean Tessa King Programming Assistant Production Manager Graphic Designer Prue Miels Administration/Payroll Requiem Luke Penman Officer Françoise Piron Ticketing Assistant Production Coordinator Ionah Warrior Trainee Lachlan Turner BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Production Coordinator Vander da Silva & PHILANTHROPY Volunteer Coordinator Casey Welch Production Coordinator Amanda Wheeler Head of Business Development

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44 45 TICKETED OPENING EVENT Index of Writers OE THU 27 FEB SAT 29 FEB SUN 1 MAR MON 2 MAR TUE 3 MAR WED 4 MAR THU 5 MAR

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Alice, Jessica SUN 12 Es, Bart van SAT MON 9, 14 Lesson, Luka SUN 12 Robinson, Alice THU 26 Alharthi, Jokha WED THU 23, 27, 29 Flannery, Tim SUN MON 11, 16 Llewellyn, Caro SUN 10 Robotham, THU 28 Michael Altman, Dennis TUE THU 18, 29 Fleming, Chris THU 27 Loewenstein, WED THU 23, 27 Antony Rose, Heather WED 22 Anwar, Arif MON TUE 16, 18, 21 Foot, Mandy SAT 30, 31 Long, Litt Woon SUN TUE WED 11, 21, 22 Rose, Peter TUE 21 Ankeny, Rachel WED 24 Garnaut, Ross MON 16 Maher, Sanam OE SUN MON 3, 10, 16 Silber, Joan SUN TUE 11, 19, 21 Aw, Tash SUN TUE 13, 20, 21 Garner, Helen SUN 13 Marr, David THU 26 Simons, Margaret THU 27 Barr, Damian SUN MON 13, 14, 17 Gibbins, Ian SUN 12 Marsden, John SAT 8 Smith, Robert WED THU 23, 26, 29 Base, Graeme SAT SUN 31, 32 Goldsworthy, Anna TUE 18 Elliott Mayor, Thomas SUN 12 Birch, Tony TUE 19 Goldsworthy, Peter TUE WED 21, 23 Sparrow, Jeff TUE 19 McAleer, Tony TUE THU 19, 29 Birmingham, John TUE WED 20, 22 Goodall, Jane R WED 24 Stavanger, David SUN TUE 12, 21 McLean, Felicity THU 28 Boersma, Martijn SAT 7 Gough, Erin SUN 33 Sudbanthad, MON TUE 15, 19, 21 McNeill, Sophie MON TUE 15, 21 Boyne, John SAT SUN TUE 7, 20, 33 Griffiths, Andy SAT 6, 30 Pitchaya Milligan, Louise THU 26 Buti, Antonio THU 27 Habiburahman MON 14 Susskind, Jamie MON WED 17, 23 Moaveni, Azadeh TUE WED 21, 23, 25 Caruso, Jennifer THU 27 Hamad, Ruby TUE 20 Sved, Miriam SAT SUN 9, 10 Moreton-Robinson, TUE 20 Chang, Jung WED 22 Hankir, Zahra MON WED 15, 23 Te Whiu, SUN 12 Aileen Anne-Marie Chim, Wai SUN 33 Harjo, Joy MON TUE WED 16, 21, 25 Morsi, Mohammed THU 28, 29 Tiernan, Anne WED 24 Christie, Michael MON TUE 15, 18 Haskey, Emelia SUN 12 Massoud Treloar, Lucy THU 26 Cica, Natasha WED 24 Hastrich, Vicki THU 26 Naqvi, H. M. SUN MON TUE 12, 14, 21 Trioli, Virginia SAT 9 Clark, Christopher SUN THU 13, 29 Hill, Jess TUE 20 Nolan, Justine SAT 7 Tsiolkas, Christos SAT MON 7, 14 Clarke, Maxine SAT SUN TUE 12, 21, 30, 31 Jian, Ma SUN 10 Obioma, Chigozie OE SAT SUN 3, 8, 13 Beneba Varoufakis, Yanis TUE WED 19, 23, 25 Jones, Tony WED 22 Osborne-Crowley, MON TUE 17, 21 Costello, Tim SUN MON 11, 14 Lucia wāni SUN 12 Joyner, Andrew SAT 30 Critchlow, Hannah SAT THU 9, 28, 29 Perlman, Elliot WED 22 Ward, Donna THU 26 Kaufman, Amie SUN 32 Cunningham, TUE 18 Phillips, Julia MON TUE 15, 19, 21 Whyte, Mandy THU 27, 29 Krien, Anna TUE 18 Sophie Plokhy, Serhii SAT SUN 8, 13 Winch, Tara June SAT 6 Lake, Meredith MON 14 d’Alpuget, Blanche SAT 7 Puri, Kavita SUN MON 12, 16 Wood, Charlotte WED 24 Laniyuk SUN 12 Davis, Megan SUN 12 Quiggin, John WED 24 Wood, Danielle WED 24 Laveau-Harvie, THU 29 Donaldson, Julia SAT 6, 30 Vicki Redhouse, Nicola THU 28 Woollacott, THU 28 Eckermann, Ali MON ??? Angela Law, Benjamin MON WED 17, 25 Reid, Caroline SUN 12 Cobby Younus, Manal SUN 12 Lawlor, Andrea MON WED 17, 25 Rippin, Sally SAT Edozien, Chiké MON TUE 17, 18 30, 31 Yunkaporta, Tyson OE SAT 3, 8 Frankie Lee, Bri MON 17 Roach, Archie WED 24 Zisin, Nevo SUN 33 Thank you to our partners

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9.30am THE MAINSTAGE! THE YIELD A WOMAN A UNIVERSE OF MINING THE SELECTED TREES FOR LIFE THE STORM RIPPED FROM MAYBE THE THE RISE AND FALL A CLIMATE OF Adelaide Writers’ Week 2020 9 9.30am Andy Griffiths Tara June LIKE HER SUFFICIENT SIZE HISTORY’S WORKS OF Michael Christie Arif Anwar THE HEADLINES HORSE OF CARDINAL PELL CONSEQUENCE 9.45 Julia Donaldson Winch Sanam Maher Miriam Sved DEPTHS ABDULLAH THE Sophie Cunningham Tony Jones WILL TALK David Marr Alice Robinson 10am SPACE NERD Damien Barr COSSACK Heather Rose Elliot Perlman Louise Milligan Lucy Treloar Amie Kaufman Bart van Es H M Naqvi 10.30 SAM MCMAHON (MC) 10.45am 10.45 MY FAVOURITE DAMASCUS A LADDER CHINA DREAM DIVING INTO CHRISTIANITY’S FIRST, THEY LOVE, LIFE FROM FACT BIG SISTER, ON GRIEF RAGE INSIDE INTIMATE 10.45am STORY Christos Tsiolkas TO THE SKY 11am SECRETS HIDDEN Ma Jian GLASS CROSSROADS ERASED OUR AND ACTIVISM TO FICTION LITTLE SISTER, John Birmingham THE MACHINE ACCOUNTS 10.55 STORY TROVE John Boyne IN THE PICTURES Caro Lle Tim Costello NAME Dennis Altman Anna Goldsworthy RED SISTER Long Litt Woon Robert Vicki Hastrich Meredith Lake Habiburahman Chiké Frankie Anna Krien Jung Chang Elliott Smith Donna Ward Graeme Base Christos Tsiolkas Edozien

11.55 MY FAVOURITE 12pm STORY BOB HAWKE: ADDRESSING 12pm SPEAKING TO THE A LOT WITH THE WAY THROUGH GREENWOOD DISAPPEARING COMBATTING THE POWER OF PEDDLING DOOM LOOMING CELESTIAL THE 12pm 12.05 STORY TROVE THE COMPLETE MODERN NEXT GENERATION A LITTLE THE WOODS Michael Christie EARTH EXTREMISM PERSPECTIVE Antony LARGE BODIES INSCRUTABLE BIOGRAPHY SLAVERY Bruce Pascoe Tim Costello Long Litt Woon Julia Phillips Tony McAleer Julia Philips Loewenstein Robert Elliott Smith Jokha Alharthi SENATOR WONG Jeff Sparrow Joan Silber Yanis Varoufakis Jamie Susskind Margaret Simons 12.35 SALLY RIPPIN Blanche d’Alpuget Martijn Boersma Justine Nolan Pitchaya Sudbanthad 1pm IN CONVERSATION 1.15pm AN ORCHESTRA GROWING UP WITH JOHN BOYNE LIFE IMPROVEMENT WOMEN IN WAR BANGKOK RADICAL THE WHITE GIRL THE CHALLENGE MINOTAUR KEEPING IT STOLEN LIVES 1.15pm OF MINORITIES WITH JOHN John Boyne Tim Flannery Joan Silber Zahra Hankir WAKES TO RAIN DEMOCRACY Tony Birch OF CHANGE Peter TOGETHER Antonio Buti 1.35 STORY TROVE Chigozie Obioma MARSDEN Sophie McNeill Pitchaya Yanis Varoufakis Jokha Alharthi Goldsworthy Chris Fleming Jennifer Caruso John Marsden Sudbanthad Zahra Hankir Antony Loewenstein 2pm SURPRISING Azadeh Moaveni Mandy Whyte 2.05 GRAEME BASE POWERS IN ANXIOUS TIMES 2.30pm 2.35 MY FAVOURITE CHERNOBYL: SALT, SAND Wai Chim THE ULURU PARTITION A CARBON DIVIDED LANDS REFLECTIONS SEARCHING FOR TELL ME WHY THE COMMON THE VISIONARY THE PALACE 2.30pm STORY HISTORY OF AND SAVING STATEMENT VOICES FREE FUTURE Arif Anwar ON WRITING THE SISTERHOOD Archie Roach GOOD DON DUNSTAN OF ANGELS A TRAGEDY THE WORLD Megan Davis Kavita Puri Tim Flannery Sanam Maher John Birmingham Ruby Hamad Jane R Goodall Angela Woollacott Mohammed 2.45 STORYTELLING Serhii Plokhy Tyson Yunkaporta 3pm KINDRED PANEL Thomas Mayor Ross Garnaut Kavita Puri John Boyne Aileen Moreton- John Quiggin Massoud Morsi WITH MAXINE Erin Gough Robinson BENEBA CLARKE Nevo Zisin

3.45pm THE SCIENCE ADELAIDE YELLOW THE FALL INNER 2020 MUD SEE WHAT YOU WE, THE THE WEEKEND GRIFFITH REVIEW STORMING DEEP BRAIN 3.45pm OF FATE FESTIVAL NOTEBOOK OF EMPIRES EXPLORATION LITERARY MADE ME DO SURVIVORS Charlotte Wood Rachel Ankeny THE WORLD DIVING Hannah Critchlow AWARDS FOR Plane Tree Stage Helen Garner Christopher Clark Ali Cobby Eckermann PRIZE Jess Hill Tash Aw Natasha Cica Felicity McLean Hannah Critchlow LITERATURE Serhii Plokhy Joy Harjo Anne Tiernan Michael Robotham Nicola Redhouse 12.30pm Danielle Wood DEAF STORYTELLERS LIVE Presented by 5pm WHERE TO FOR THE CUT Writers SA HOPE, FATE YOU WILL BE FUTURE READING, GUEST HOUSE POETRY READING POETIC PAUL TAKES THE ERRATICS THE LESSONS 5pm #METOO? OUT GIRL AND POVERTY SAFE HERE POLITICS WRITING AND FOR YOUNG M Beneba Clarke, JUSTICE THE FORM OF A Vicki OF HISTORY 1.45pm Miriam Sved Bart van Es Tash Aw Damian Barr Jamie Susskind RECLAMATION WIDOWS P Goldsworthy, Joy Harjo MORTAL GIRL Laveau-Harvie Christopher Clark Virginia Trioli WALFORD Chigozie Obioma Bri Lee Azadeh Moaveni J Harjo, H M Naqvi, Andrea Lawlor MICROSTORY Lucia Osbourne- P Rose, D Stavanger 6.15 COMPETITION Crowley CELEBRATING Winner announced 60 YEARS 7pm 2pm Twilight 7pm Special Event Twilight AUTHORIAL VOICE Twilight ROCK BOTTOM Twilight AUTHORIAL VOICE BEING HUMAN HEAR ME ROAR! Talk HOSTED BY B LAW Talk A Anwar, T Aw, Long Litt Woon, Talk HOSTED BY B LAW Talk J Alharthi, D Altman, H Critchlow, Slam and D Barr, C Frankie S McNeill, L Osborne-Crowley, J Harjo, A Moaveni, V Laveau-Harvie, T McAleer, Performance Poetry Edozien, A Lawlor J Phillips, J Silber, P Sudbanthad Y Varoufakis M M Morsi, R E Smith, M Whyte