Sydney Writers' Festival 2009 - Online Program

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Craig Silvey in Conversation
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Craig Silvey’s blindingly successful first novel, Rhubarb, sold over 15,000 copies and saw him acknowledged as one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists. He talks about his much anticipated second novel, Jasper Jones with Daniel Stacey.

In Conversation  |  Fiction
Participants
Craig Silvey, Daniel Stacey (facilitator)

When
Saturday, May 23 2009
12:00 - 13:00

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 4
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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CRAIG SILVEY (INTERSTATE)Silvey, Craig
CRAIG SILVEY resides in Fremantle, where he wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, before turning 20. Craig received a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award for Rhubarb and the novel was also one of the featured titles in the national Book’s Alive campaign. The following year, Silvey released the picture-book The World According To Warren. Jasper Jones is Silvey’s second novel. Outside of literature, Silvey is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes. The band are working on an album to be released later in the year.

also appearing at...
171: Coming of Age
274: Penguin Plays Rough