Sydney Writers' Festival

GARY BRYSON (LOCAL)
GARY BRYSON is a journalist with Radio National, producing and presenting features and documentaries for the Encounter series. Prior to this, he was executive producer on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams. Turtle is his first novel.

also appearing at...
121: The Debut
223: Drawn from Life, or Drawn from the Imagination

LOUIS NOWRA (LOCAL)
LOUIS NOWRA is an acclaimed author, screenwriter and playwright. His books include The Misery of Beauty, The Twelfth of Never and the most recent title Bad Dreaming, and his plays include Cosi, The Marvellous Boy and The Golden Age. His latest novel, Ice, is a book about the power of love, told with audacity and breathtaking imaginative power.

also appearing at...
197: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
266: First Australians

ANDREW DAVIDSON (INTERNATIONAL)
ANDREW DAVIDSON was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a BA in English literature. He has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese websites. The Gargoyle, the product of seven years' worth of research and composition, is his first book. Davidson lives in Winnipeg.

His participation is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

also appearing at...
170: Tackling The Big Themes
237: Andrew Davidson in Conversation

ANTON ENUS (LOCAL)

ANTON ENUS, a broadcast journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, has been presenting SBS Television World News Australia bulletins since 1999.

He began his career at the South African national broadcaster, SABC, as a radio news reporter. He moved on to become a parliamentary reporter, current affairs producer, TV news reporter and TV presenter. Anton was part of the team that covered South Africa’s historic return to democracy in 1994 and, as specialist news writer for the SABC, he also filed stories from Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Uganda, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Anton spent seven years as a correspondent for CNN World Report, a global news program, where he won Best International Report for his story marking the 25th anniversary of Chris Barnard's pioneering heart transplant. Before leaving South Africa, Anton presented the SABC’s major evening national news bulletin.

In addition to reading the news, Anton hosts special SBS news events such as the 2003 nightly Iraq War program, the live studio debate on the Cronulla race riots and the annual Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.

His favourite authors are J.M. Coetzee, Sebastian Faulks and William Wharton.

also appearing at...
170: Tackling The Big Themes