Sydney Writers' Festival

STEVEN GALE (INTERNATIONAL)
Steven Gale is an arts and education manager based in London. He has worked in theatres in England and Scotland, and taught at universities in Ireland and the United States.

He was Assistant Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh for six years, and Assistant Director to the renowned Spanish director Calixto Bieito on two acclaimed theatre productions for the Edinburgh International Festival, Life is a Dream and Barbaric Comedies.

Steven has previously chaired events for literature festivals including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, the Bath Literature Festival and the Brighton Festival, and at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank.

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69: Peter Ho Davies in Conversation
77: Sins of the Father
100: David Davidar in Conversation
177: David Brooks in Conversation
204: Vincent Lam in Conversation
258: John Burnside in Conversation

LUCIO GALLETTO (LOCAL)
Lucio Galletto was born into a family of farmers and restaurateurs in north-west Italy. He was studying to become an architect when he fell in love with a visiting Australian girl and moved to Sydney.

In 1981, they set up Lucio's, which has become one of Australia's most awarded Italian restaurants. Lucio Galetto’s first publication was The Art of Food at Lucio's. Soffritto – A Delicious Ligurian Memoir, written with journalist David Dale, is his latest book.

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27: Soffritto: Lunch at Lucio’s

KIM GAMBLE (LOCAL)
Kim Gamble was born in Sydney. He moved around and worked in a variety of occupations before beginning at the age of 36 to illustrate stories for children.

His first assignment was for the School Magazine (where he still works part-time 15 years later). It was there he met Anna Fienberg, with whom he has since produced more than 20 books, including The Magnificent Nose, the Tashi books, the Minton series and Joseph.

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265: Tashi and the Phoenix and Other Marvels

FORREST GANDER (INTERNATIONAL)
Forrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, and Science & Steepleflower. Gander also writes novels, essays and translates.

Gander's poems appear in many literary magazines in the USA and abroad, and have been translated into half a dozen languages. He has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from The Fund for Poetry, The Howard Foundation, and The Whiting Foundation.

Gander lives in Rhode Island with poet C.D. Wright and their son, Brecht. As Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University, he teaches courses such as Poetry/World/Mind, EcoPoetics, Latin American Poetry Live, and Translation Theory & Practice.

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9: Torn Awake: Forrest Gander in Conversation
15: Poetry Outloud
99: Poetry International
147: The Earth That Sustains Us
228: The Poetics of Ecology

HELEN GARNER (INTERSTATE)
Helen Garner published her first novel, Monkey Grip, in 1977. She was best known as a fiction writer (The Children’s Bach, Postcards from Surfers, Cosmo Cosmolino, My Hard Heart) and freelance journalist until 1994, when The First Stone, her account of a university sexual harassment case, provoked a national controversy.

Since then she has become one of Australia’s most respected writers of essays and nonfiction. In 2004 she published the best-selling Joe Cinque’s Consolation, about the murder of a young man in Canberra in 1997. The Spare Room is her first novel in 15 years.

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108: Writers as Readers
249: Helen Garner in Conversation with Caroline Baum

TRISHA GARNER (LOCAL)
Trisha Garner has won a number of Australian Publishing Association Book Design Awards, including Designer of the Best Book of the Year 2007; the Best Designed Non-fiction Book 2007 and designer of the award-winning APA Book Design Awards Catalogue 2007.

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127: Design Outlook: Australian Book Designers and their Visions

JUAN GARRIDO-SALGADO (INTERSTATE)
Juan Garrido-Salgado was granted asylum in Australia in 1990 after fleeing Chile's Pinochet, where he was imprisoned and tortured.

He has published three collections of poetry in Australia and one in Chile. His most recent book was translated into English by Peter Boyle, titled Unmoving Navigator who fell in love with the ocean's darkness. Juan recently translated into Spanish five Aboriginal poets as a part of an Anthology of Indigenous Poets to be published together with five Mapuche indigenous poets from Chile.

His book The Garden of the Spanish Poet will be published in Chile in 2008. He was the recipient of an Arts SA grant in 2007, for his new book The Mirror of Two Souls.

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107: Launch: Poetry Without Borders (Picaro Press)

KEN GELDER (INTERSTATE)
Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His books include Reading the Vampire, Uncanny Australia, Popular Fiction and Subcultures. He is currently co-writing a book on Australian fiction 1989-2007.

Ken Gelder’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Overland magazine.

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170: The Overland Debate: The Future of Australian Fiction

JANE GIBIAN (LOCAL)
Jane Gibian is the author of two previous poetry books, The Body's Navigation and long shadows. In 2002 she was awarded an Asialink Literature Residency in Hanoi, and her poems have been translated into German, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her new collection is Ardent.

Jane Gibian’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Giramondo Publishing.

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261: Four on the Floor

ADAM GIBSON (LOCAL)
Adam Gibson is a Sydney writer. He has published three books of poetry and the manuscript of his first novel, Blinding Sunlight, was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel Award.

His poetry, fiction and short stories have been published in various magazines and periodicals around Australia. He has also done a great deal of spoken word/performance poetry gigs around the country, reading at events such as the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the National Young Writers' Festival.

Adam's poetry is accessible, funny and affecting, going a long way to debunking the common perception that poetry has to be so complicated and so far up it’s own backside to be considered 'real'. He talks of aloe vera plants on the back step, of the paling fence of the Australian backyard, about relationships falling apart as a hot dry westerly wind scorches the city, about surfing remote headlands and about driving through the night listening to Midnight Oil.

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123: The Bard of Bondi

TOM GILLING (LOCAL)
Tom Gilling was born in England in 1961 and emigrated to Australia in 1983. He is the author of The Sooterkin and Miles McGinty, both of which were shortlisted for major prizes in Australia and chosen by the New York Times as notable books of the year. Tom Gilling is co-author of Bagman, the posthumous memoir of the corrupt Queensland policeman Jack Herbert. His latest book is Dreamland, described as ‘Hitchcock on the Hume’. Tom lives in Sydney.

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97: Identity
283: Sydney’s Underbelly

GEORGE GITTOES (LOCAL)
George Gittoes is an Australian artist who travels the globe to find his subjects. He is well known for his forays to the world’s trouble spots – including Tibet, Rwanda, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Iraq. He has also worked and exhibited in Australia, Taiwan, China, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Yemen and the US.

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191: When Is War Justified? The Friday Night Salon

KERI GLASTONBURY (LOCAL)
Keri Glastonbury is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Newcastle and poetry editor of Overland and local consumption publications.

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70: trope: Promoting New Writing in Second Life

LIBBY GLEESON (LOCAL)
Libby Gleeson AM is a popular and highly acclaimed writer who has published over 30 books for children and teenagers, including Eleanor, Elizabeth, I Am Susannah, Dodger, Love Me, Love Me Not and the Hannah series.

She has been shortlisted for the CBCA Awards eleven times and won the Award for Fiction for Younger Readers in 1997 with Hannah and the Tomorrow Room. She was awarded Picture Book of the Year 2002 for An Ordinary Day (with Amin Greder) and Early Childhood book of the Year 2007 for Amy and Louis (with Freya Blackwood). The Great Bear (with Armin Greder) won the Bologna Ragazzi in 2000, the first time an Australian title has won this prestigious award.

Libby has been a teacher and lecturer and is a regular contributor to academic courses and national conferences. She is actively involved in writers' organisations and chaired the Australian Society of Authors, 1999-2001. In 2007, Libby was awarded membership of the Order of Australia for her services to literature.

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37: Workshop: Writing Children's Picture Books with Libby Gleeson
342: Publishing Fiction for Children and Young Adults

JANE GLEESON-WHITE (LOCAL)
Jane Gleeson-White has worked as an editor, writer and reviewer in Sydney and London since completing her degrees in English and Australian literature, and economics, at the University of Sydney.

She also worked as a student at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, where she studied Byzantine, early Renaissance and modern art. Her most recent book is Australian Classics.

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129: Australian Classics
165: Booklust
297: Editing Today

RICHARD GLOVER (LOCAL)
Richard Glover is the author of two short novels for children, The Dirt Experiment and The Joke Trap. He has also written several books for adults including the original Dag’s Dictionary, contributes a weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald and presents the Drive show on 702 ABC Radio Sydney.

His latest book, The No-minute Noodler: the dag’s dictionary for kids, is a very funny book of words that should exist – but don’t.

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8: Primary School Days – Parramatta
23: Primary School Days – Sydney

BRENDA GLOVER (LOCAL)
Brenda Glover has been teaching in Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney since 2003, predominantly in the MA Writing program. She has published short fiction, book reviews and academic articles. She is currently working on her second novel, a work of creative non-fiction, and is collecting the oral histories of senior medical women in NSW for a series of biographies. Her areas of research are Australian and Canadian literature, women's writing, autobiographical and biographical writing, and marginalised writing.

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217: Memory
231: Motherlove

PETER GOLDSWORTHY
Peter Goldsworthy has won major literary awards across a range of genres: poetry, short story, novels, theatre, and for opera libretti. His first collection of poetry won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Anne Elder Award. His second won the Australian Bicentennial Literary Prize for poetry.

His novels have been three times short-listed for the Christina Stead Fiction Prize, and twice for the Miles Franklin Award. They have been translated into many European and Asian languages; his first, Maestro, widely regarded as a modern Australian classic, sold its 200,000th copy in Australia this year.

He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, and a Green Room Award for Special Creative Achievement.

A stage adaptation of his 1991 novel, Honk If You Are Jesus, was performed by the State Theatre Company of SA, winning the 2006 Advertiser award for Best Play, and the 2006 Ruby Award for Best New Work.

Four of his novels are currently in development as movies, and two more for the stage. A new novel, Everything I Knew, is due in August.

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18: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Dinner

HEATHER GOODALL (LOCAL)
Heather Goodall of UTS is mapping the multiple and diverse community uses of the George’s River. Her book Invasion to Embassy won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History.

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180: What Lies Beneath

JOHN GRAY (INTERNATIONAL)
John Gray is most recently the acclaimed author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Al-Qaeda, What It Means To Be Modern and Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions.

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray's powerful and frightening new book, argues that the death of utopia does not mean peace. He is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

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34: John Gray Business Breakfast
57: What’s the Big Idea?
198: John Gray in Conversation
256: Commentariat

NICKI GREENBERG (INTERSTATE)
Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based comic artist, illustrator and lawyer.

In 1990 she wrote and illustrated The Digits, a series of 12 children's books, selling 400,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. Spin-off merchandise included greeting cards, giftwraps and stickers.

In 2005, she wrote and illustrated It's True! Squids Suck. It was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Aventis prize and the Australian Wilderness Society Awards in 2006. Her most recent publication is a graphic novel interpretation of the classic The Great Gatsby.

An active contributor to the Australian independent comic art scene, Nicki's comics have appeared in Silent Army, Pure Evil, Tango and other comic art anthologies in Australia, Canada and Spain. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as Comic Book Lifestyle (Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts) and Inside Out (Westspace Gallery) and featured in The Age newspaper.

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20: Secondary School Days – Parramatta
35: Secondary School Days – Sydney
337: Workshop: Playing Between the Frames - Creating Graphic Novels with Nicki Greenberg

HELEN GREENWOOD (LOCAL)
Helen Greenwood has been a food writer and editor for nearly 20 years. She writes a weekly food column and restaurant review for The Sydney Morning Herald, contributes to the SMH Good Food Guide, does food tours and is the co-author of The Foodies’ Guide to Sydney 2008.

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2: Hanoi to Beirut Express: A Tour of Bankstown
134: Hot Chocolate: The Dark Sweet Side of the City
201: Workshop: Food Is Five Senses with Helen Greenwood

MEREDITH GRIFFITHS (LOCAL)
Meredith Griffiths is a news presenter on Triple J.

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83: Scar Tissue
254: Pornstars, Princesses and Lost Boys
286: Enjoy the Trip

GABRIELLE GWYTHER (LOCAL)
Gabrielle Gwyther is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney and an urban sociologist.

Her PhD dissertation from the University of Western Sydney examined socio-economic differentiation and the master planned community, with specific reference to the development of social capital in communities in South-west Sydney.

Her current research interests involve the relationship between ‘new mobilities’ and contemporary community formation, particularly in regard to disadvantaged communities.

She has lectured at the University of Western Sydney and University of New South Wales, has worked in an advisory capacity for Members of Parliament in south-west Sydney, and has been employed within both the commercial and residential property sectors, including the Department of Housing.

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92: Cities on the Edge