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Digging up the Past MWF #4
Live blogging – tidied up typos & incoherent stuff later at home. The Chair for this session was Alan Attwood (whose novel Burke’s Soldier was about Bourke & Wills -a fabulous book which I...
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Shaun Tan in Conversation MWF #4
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Press Freedom, MWF #1
Today was my first day at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival and it kicked off with a stimulating session in the BMW Edge at Federation Square. The session was titled Press Freedom – which might seem...
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How Russia Changed My Life, MWF #2
It was lovely to see and hear, and then to meet Elif Batuman at this session! She is just the way I had imagined her from reading her book – a very attractive young woman, bright and lively, funny in a...
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Travels in Asia, MWF #3
It was interesting to note that nearly everyone in the audience for this session was older than me, and resolutely Anglo-Saxon. I suspect that (like me) they were attracted by the name and fame of...
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Melbourne Writers’ Festival #1
Oh dear, as a Melbourne Writers’ Festival correspondent, I have slacked off a bit today… I made a great start: The Spouse and I were up at the crack of dawn so as to be on time for our first session,...
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Melbourne Writers’ Festival #2
Well, I think I’ve redeemed myself today at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. I went to a great session with Kim Scott, Kate Grenville and Rohan Wilson, I met up with a lovely lady called Marg who...
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Melbourne Writers’ Festival #3
Another lovely day at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival today! I started off with Jane Sullivan in conversation with Ann Patchett, author of the Orange Prize winning Bel Canto, and the session was...
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Melbourne Writers’ Festival #4
Today was my last day at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival… I went to a great panel session called ‘Switching to Fiction’, where all the featured authors – Leslie Cannold, Anna Funder, Christopher...
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MWF: History’s Script
What with the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, the History Teachers Conference and the inaugural meeting of Benn’s Book Club, It’s been a rather hectic week for me, so rather than blog my session at the...
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