Sydney Writers' Festival 2010

ROBERT DREWE (INTERSTATE)
ROBERT DREWE grew up on the West Australian coast. He is one of Australia's best literary writers. In 1983 his first collection of stories, The Bodysurfers, was published. It has since become an Australian classic, regularly reprinted, widely translated and adapted for screen, stage, and radio. His other prize-winning books include another story collection, The Bay of Contented Men, memoirs The Shark Net and Walking Ella, and novels Our Sunshine, The Drowner and Grace. Robert's latest book, The Rip, was published during the 25th anniversary of The Bodysurfers. He continues to live near and write about the ocean.

also appearing at...
313: Sunday Afternoon Tea and Readings

AMANDA LOHREY (INTERSTATE)
AMANDA LOHREY was born in Tasmania where she lives today. Her first novel was The Morality of Gentlemen, first published in 1984. It was followed by The Reading Group and then Camille’s Bread, winner of the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 1996. In 2004 Amanda wrote The Philosopher’s Doll, and her most recent work is Vertigo. She is also the author of two Quarterly Essays, 'Groundswell’ and 'Voting for Jesus’.

also appearing at...
120: On Grief
185: Parents and Children
264: Truth in Fiction and Non-fiction

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (INTERNATIONAL)

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into 30 languages. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Her new collection is The Thing Around Your Neck.

Her participation is supported by HarperCollins Publishers.

also appearing at...
65: Opening Address presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
142: First Tuesday Book Club
247: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation with Ramona Koval
272: International Voices

KEVIN RABALAIS (INTERSTATE)

Kevin Rabalais grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Melbourne. He is the author of The Landscape of Desire, and co-author of Novel Voices, conversations with award-winning American writers. His work has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekend Australian, The Wellington Dominion-Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and in numerous literary journals, including Tin House, Brick and The Kenyon Review.

Supported by Scribe Publications.

also appearing at...
158: Tash Aw in Conversation with Kevin Rabalais
281: Changing Worlds