Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Opening Address: Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson OBE is one of Britain’s great contemporary writers and the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, as well as extraordinarily beautiful essays on art, life and philosophy. A renowned orator, her SWF opening address entitled GET A BOOK GET A LIFE! how words create meaning will be filled with the insights and passion of her literary work.

Presented by NRMA Insurance.

Lecture  |  Fiction
Participants
Jeanette Winterson, Sandra Yates AO (facilitator)

When
Tuesday, May 20 2008
18:30 - 20:00

Where
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall
Bennelong Point
Sydney
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Cost
$35-$40/$30-$35

Bookings
9250 7777
www.sydneyoperahouse.com

Schedule
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SANDRA YATES AO (LOCAL)
Sandra Yates AO joined the board of SWF in 1999 and has been Chair since 2000. She is a former Chair of Saatchi & Saatchi Australia and the NSW TAFE Commission Board, and is currently Chair of Books Alive and a board member of the Eleanor Dark Foundation (Varuna – The Writers’ House).

also appearing at...
68: Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton
90: The Life of Peter Sculthorpe
307: Set to Music
326: Kate Llewellyn in Conversation

JEANETTE WINTERSON (INTERNATIONAL)Winterson Jeanette
Jeanette Winterson is an award winning author of novels for both adults and younger readers. She has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations, including the Whitbread Prize, UK, and the Prix d'argent, Cannes Film Festival, and in 2006 received an OBE for services to literature. Her most recent novel is The Stone Gods.
www.jeanettewinterson.com

also appearing at...
350: Jeanette Winterson on ABC Radio National’s Book Show
168: Ask Jeanette Winterson ANYTHING!