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Facts and Suppositions
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Non-fiction can often have the quality of a bald narrative of events. Kate Summerscale and Evelyn Juers talk to Melanie Ostell about the strategies behind transforming the cold facts of research into hot topics.

Panel  |  Nonfiction, Industry
Participants
Kate Summerscale, Evelyn Juers, Melanie Ostell (facilitator)

When
Thursday, May 21 2009
11:30 - 12:30

Where
Sydney Theatre, Richard Wherrett Studio
22 Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
 Venue and Transport Info

Cost
$15/$10

Bookings
9250 1988
 Sydney Theatre Box Office

Schedule
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MELANIE OSTELL (INTERSTATE)
MELANIE OSTELL has more than 20 years' experience in Australian book publishing. In 2007 she went freelance after 10 years at Text Publishing. While senior editor at Text she worked with many award-winning writers including Tim Flannery, J.M. Coetzee, Kate Grenville and Lloyd Jones.

also appearing at...
18: The Business of Getting Published: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
35: The Business of Getting Published: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
38: Getting Published 2 - Fiction: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
40: Getting Published 2 - Nonfiction: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
55: The Business of Getting Published: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
58: Getting Published 2 - Fiction: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
60: Getting Published 2 - Non-fiction: Workshop with Melanie Ostell
92: The Editorial Relationship
121: The Debut
171: Coming of Age

EVELYN JUERS (LOCAL)Juers, Evelyn
EVELYN JUERS is the author of House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann. It is a collective biography of the German writer and political activist Heinrich Mann, his famous brother Thomas, their mother Julia and sister Carla, and a host of writers including Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Egon Kisch, Else Lasker-Schüler, Robert Musil, Nettie Palmer, Joseph Roth, Kurt Tucholsky, Virginia Woolf, their families and friends. House of Exile was recently shortlisted for the 2009 ALS gold medal.

also appearing at...
190: Biography with a Twist

KATE SUMMERSCALE (INTERNATIONAL)Summerscale, Kate

KATE SUMMERSCALE is the former literary editor for The Daily Telegraph (UK) and author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008 and recently won the British Book Awards – Book of the Year and the Non-Fiction Award. Kate lives in London with her son.


Her participation is supported by Bloomsbury Publishing.


also appearing at...
125: The Man Booker Prize
233: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher