Sydney Writers' Festival

BRUCE ELDER (LOCAL)
Bruce Elder has been involved in writing over 60 books and he has worked as a print and radio journalist in both London and Sydney.

He is an award-winning journalist (Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing 1996) who is currently a full-time employee of The Sydney Morning Herald as well as a weekly guest on the ABC's Tony Delroy Nightlife program which is broadcast on over 150 stations around Australia.

His books include Blood on the Wattle which, in 2000, was nominated as one of the 10 most influential works of non-fiction published in Australia in the twentieth century. He is the Australian editor of Trivial Pursuit and the creator of the 2 million word Walkabout travel site (www.walkabout.com.au) which is also part of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's website.
www.walkabout.com.au

appearing at...
138: The Secret Life of Backpackers
273: Colonial Ambition: A Walking Tour of Old Sydney’s Political Sites
303: An Unimagined Journey with Imran Ahmad

BROOK EMERY (LOCAL)
Brook Emery has published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Uncommon Light.  Dug my Fingers in the Sand won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize.

Brook is the current Chair of the Poets Union, and will be directing the Australian Poetry Festival this year.

appearing at...
64: The Sydney Readings: Urban Stories I
172: So What is Happening in Contemporary Verse?
232: The Sydney Readings: City Without End
298: The Sydney Readings: The Countries of Sydney

ANNE ENRIGHT (INTERNATIONAL)
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. Educated in Ireland and Canada, Anne went to Trinity College, Dublin. She left Ireland to attend the MA in creative writing at UEA and came back a producer/director in Irish television where she worked for several years.

She has published two collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney prize, and Taking Pictures, and four previous novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, which was short-listed for the Whitbread novel award and won the Encore Award and her family epic, The Gathering, which was recently awarded the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Her first work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, was also published in 2004.

Anne Enright’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Man Investments, Random House and Culture Ireland.

appearing at...
125: An Evening with Anne Enright
148: Anne Enright Literary Lunch
193: The Big Reading

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, often anchoring the morning news show Good Morning South Africa. 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 JM Coetzee, Sebastian Faulks and William Wharton.

appearing at...
59: Not Another Misery Memoir...
80: Private Lives, Public Histories
282: The First Time
207: But I Don’t Like You