From Berlin to Hong Kong to Indonesia, Steven Conte, Alice Nelson and Tash Aw’s novels are set against a background of nations in turmoil. They discuss the ‘character’ of nation in their books.
Panel
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Fiction, Current Affairs
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Participants
Steven Conte, Alice Nelson, Tash Aw, Kevin Rabalais (facilitator)
When
Sunday, May 24 2009
10:00 - 11:00
Where
Bangarra Mezzanine
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
 Venue and Transport Info
Cost
Free
Schedule
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STEVEN CONTE (INTERSTATE)
STEVEN CONTE lived and worked in Europe, and his first published short stories drew on his experiences as a traveller. He has lived in Sydney and Canberra and now resides in Melbourne. Bank teller, waiter, barman, cleaner, life model, public servant, taxi driver, receptionist, university tutor, editor and book reviewer are some of the jobs with which he has supported his writing. In 2008, his debut novel, The Zookeeper’s War, was awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
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TASH AW (INTERNATIONAL)
TASH AW is Malaysian by birth and now lives in London. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, won the Whitbread Best First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Best First Novel Award. His second novel, Map of the Invisible World, is set in post-Independence Malaysia and Indonesia. Tash is a frequent contributor to the BBC on South-East Asian literature, film and culture.
His participation is supported by HarperCollins Publishers.
tash-aw.com
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158: Tash Aw in Conversation with Kevin Rabalais
242: Conflict and Childhood
272: International Voices
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ALICE NELSON (INTERSTATE)
ALICE NELSON studied creative writing at the University of Western Australia and in the renowned Master’s program at the City University of New York in Manhattan. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in journals such as Southerly and Westerly, and she has been awarded residential fellowships at the Dorset Writers’ Colony in Vermont and at Varuna, the Writer’s House in the Blue Mountains. Alice’s first novel, The Last Sky, was shortlisted for the prestigious The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2004 and won the 2006 TAG Hungerford Award.
Her participation is supported by Fremantle Press.
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241: On Marriage
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KEVIN RABALAIS (INTERSTATE)
Kevin Rabalais grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Melbourne. He is the author of The Landscape of Desire, and co-author of Novel Voices, conversations with award-winning American writers. His work has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekend Australian, The Wellington Dominion-Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and in numerous literary journals, including Tin House, Brick and The Kenyon Review.
Supported by Scribe Publications.
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158: Tash Aw in Conversation with Kevin Rabalais
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