Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Growing Up Asian in Australia
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Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. Yet are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it like to grow up Asian in Australia? Alice Pung discusses Growing Up Asian in Australia with contributors Annette Shun Wah, Sunil Badami and Oliver Phommavanh.

Panel  |  Culture & Heritage
Participants
Annette Shun Wah, Sunil Badami, Oliver Phommavanh, Alice Pung (facilitator)

When
Sunday, May 25 2008
11:00 - 12:00

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 2/3
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

Schedule
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SUNIL BADAMI (LOCAL)Badami, Sunil
Sunil Badami has an Honours degree in communications from UTS and a Masters with distinction in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths College, The University of London. He has written for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australian, The Australian Literary Review, The Cultural Studies Review and Meanjin. His short story ‘Collective Silences’ is included in the 2007 Best Australian Short Stories. He is completing his first novel.

also appearing at...
150: Blake Morrison in Conversation
215: Debra Adelaide in Conversation

OLIVER PHOMMAVANH (LOCAL)
Oliver Phommavanh is an Australian-Thai writer for children. His short story is included in Growing Up Asian in Australia. He is also a primary school teacher and stand up comedian.

ALICE PUNG (INTERSTATE)Pung, Alice
Alice Pung is a writer and lawyer whose work has appeared in The Age, Good Weekend, The Monthly and Meanjin.

Her first book, Unpolished Gem, has become a national bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Colin Roderick Award, the Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature and won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards. It was also selected for Books Alive 2007 and voted one of Victoria’s top 5 summer reads in the State Library of Victoria's Summer Read program.

Most recently, Alice has edited the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia.

also appearing at...
229: Writing and Research
259: Launch: Growing Up Asian in Australia

ANNETTE SHUN WAH (LOCAL)
Annette Shun Wah is an author, actor and broadcaster. Her extensive career credits include SBS TV programs Imagine, The Noise, Eat Carpet and The Movie Show; and a range of documentaries, live telecasts and weekly series for ABC TV including The Big Picture, Studio 22 and Media Dimensions. She has published essays, articles and reviews and has been a regular contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald. Annette currently serves on the board of Theatre 4a.

also appearing at...
193: The Big Reading
250: Under the Influence