Sydney Writers' Festival

DOUG MACLEOD (INTERSTATE)
Doug MacLeod is the author of the children's classic Sister Madge's Book of Nuns. He also wrote the comic coming-of-age novels, I'm Being Stalked by a Moonshadow and Tumble Turn.

Doug left his full-time job producing and writing TV shows to pen these books, though he still works part-time as the script editor on the hit series Kath and Kim. With satirist John Clarke he recently co-wrote the stage musical, The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom, which was directed by Neil Armfield.

His most recent novel is the hilarious send-up fantasy Kevin the Troll, published in 2007, with Doug’s latest book, The Clockwork Forest an intriguing, wry, and original fantasy novel, published in March 2008. It will be presented as a play by Sydney Theatre Company in September 2008.

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8: Primary School Days – Parramatta
23: Primary School Days – Sydney
95: Writing for Young Adults

ANTHONY MACRIS (LOCAL)
Anthony Macris’ novel, Capital, Volume One, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, South East Asian Section in 1998. His second novel, Great Western Highway (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), was Highly Commended in the NSW Writers' Fellowship 2000.

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253: PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project

ANITA MAGLICIC (LOCAL)
Anita Maglicic is a 25-year-old journalist for The Penrith City Star and Sun Herald. Anita is very proud of her Croatian heritage, especially when it comes to food, dancing and music. Her mother-tongue skills are a bit shabby but at least it's a point of laughter. She is a dreamer but more often than not she puts it into action. Occasionally when she gets inspired to write, she will stay up all night.

Besides writing, Anita loves latin dancing, weekend breaks, going out on 'school nights' and all cheeses except the ones that smell like her gym socks. She dislikes people talking badly of Cabramatta when they haven't set foot inside it, sharks, scary movies, mean people and sit-ups. This is her second time reading at Sydney Writers’ Festival.

She is a contributor to Westside.

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285: Westside at the Wharf

EMILY MAGUIRE (LOCAL)
Emily Maguire is the author of the novels The Gospel According to Luke and Taming the Beast. Her articles and essays on sex, religion, culture and literature have been widely published, including in The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith REVIEW, The Observer and The Age. Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power and Identity is her first non-fiction book. Emily lives in Sydney.

www.emilymaguire.typepad.com

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105: Princesses and Pornstars
254: Pornstars, Princesses and Lost Boys
291: The Future of Feminism

JENNIFER MAIDEN (LOCAL)
Jennifer Maiden has published 13 books of poetry, and two novels. Her most recent book is Friendly Fire, with a new collection to be published shortly. Previous books have won the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Awards, and earnt her the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.

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64: The Sydney Readings: Urban Stories I

GREG MALOUF (INTERSTATE)
Greg Malouf is widely acclaimed as the master of modern Middle Eastern cooking. He has transformed the Australian restaurant scene with his innovative food and his influence has spread through Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Greg is executive chef at MoMo restaurant in Melbourne (soon to be re-opened) where he delights diners with the flavours of his heritage, presented with exciting contemporary flair. He is a regular contributor to Delicious magazine and travels widely for masterclasses and guest-chef appearances. He also consults to restaurants in Melbourne, the Yarra Valley, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

He is the co-author of the acclaimed and award-winning Saha, Arabesque and Moorish, and the recently published Turquoise with his former wife, Lucy Malouf.

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189: Turquoise: A Middle Eastern Dinner Greg and Lucy Malouf

LUCY MALOUF (INTERSTATE)
Lucy Malouf is a Melbourne-based writer with a particular interest in food and cooking. She works as a freelance editor and manuscript advisor for several leading Australian publishers, and also contributes features and reviews to major Australian newspapers, restaurant guides and magazines.

Lucy is the co-author of the acclaimed and award-winning Saha, Arabesque and Moorish, and the recently published Turquoise with Greg Malouf.

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189: Turquoise: A Middle Eastern Dinner Greg and Lucy Malouf

BRAD MANERA (LOCAL)
Brad Manera is the curator of the Hyde Park Barracks. He is an expert in convict and military history with particular interest in the surviving material culture of transported Imperial convicts and its interpretation in museums.

Brad has 20 years' experience as a curator and museum historian, including recent achievements in major gallery developments and travelling exhibitions at national museums. He started his professional career at the Western Australian Museum as the first travelling curator, liaising with over 150 regional museums around Western Australia.

Throughout the 1990s he worked at the National Museum of Australia as a curator in Australian Social History and later in the Gallery of First Australians. Since 2000 Brad has been an historian in the Military History section at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

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98: Australia’s Birthstain

TONY MANIATY (LOCAL)
Tony Maniaty is a broadcast journalist, author and media lecturer specialising in TV journalism and international affairs. He is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at UTS.

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236: Jon Lee Anderson and Andrew Bacevich in Conversation
256: Commentariat

EMILY MANN (LOCAL)
Emily Mann is the secretary of the NSW Writers' Centre. She is a postgraduate writing student at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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133: Paradise Lost

ANNE MANNE (INTERSTATE)
Anne Manne is author of Motherhood and most recently, the Quarterly Essay: Love & Money. She is also a regular contributor to The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Monthly.

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206: Love and Money
229: Writing and Research
267: Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for Australia

ROBERT MANNE (INTERSTATE)
Robert Manne is one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals. He is professor of politics at La Trobe University, chair of the editorial board of The Monthly magazine and commissioning editor of the Black Inc. Agenda series.

His books include In Denial: The Stolen Generation and the Right, Left Right Left, Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference (with David Corlett), and, as editor, Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?, The Howard Years and Whitewash: On Keith Windshuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History.

Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia is his latest book.

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334: Robert Manne in Conversation
267: Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for Australia
320: The Future of the Liberal Party

KATHY MARKS (LOCAL)
Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific correspondent for the UK’s Independent, was one of only six journalists to be permitted to live on Pitcairn Island during the Pitcairn rape trials. A small, remote island in the South Pacific, and home to the descendants of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, Pitcairn became the centre of attention for the world’s media after allegations of rape surfaced in 2000. While reporting on the ensuing trials, Kathy witnessed first-hand life on the island, and she had daily encounters – not all of them civil – with the accused men and their families.

In her recent book Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, Marks follows the legal and human saga through to its conclusion in 2007. She has described the Pitcairn experience as one of the most riveting of her career.

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133: Paradise Lost
71: Pitcairn: Paradise Lost

DAVID MARR (LOCAL)
David Marr is the author of many books, including a biography of Patrick White. After three years presenting Media Watch he is back writing for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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182: The Monthly Third Birthday Celebration
302: Boycott

BILLY MARSHALL STONEKING (LOCAL)
Billy Marshall Stoneking was creator/writer of acclaimed ABC TV series Stringer, series writer for Paramount TV's Mission: Impossible and several plays including Sixteen Words For Water. He has written and produced several documentary films about the six years he spent living with tribal Aboriginal people. His script editing credits include Chopper and Crocodile Dreaming.

Billy spent six years as screenwriting lecturer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and is now sharing his method of mediumistic storytelling in an attempt to reinvigorate the grammar of drama in screenplays.

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323: Where’s the Drama in Australian Screenwriting?

SHONA MARTYN (LOCAL)
Shona Martyn is the Publishing Director for Australia and New Zealand for HarperCollins. Having started her career in the rough-and-tumble world of daily newspapers, Shona was named New Zealand Journalist of the Year in 1981. She subsequently worked in newspapers and magazines in the UK and Australia - where she worked for Vogue as a feature writer and edited Good Weekend before launching the much-lauded HQ magazine. In 1996 she moved to books, being appointed Publisher at Transworld publisher before moving to HarperCollins in 1999. She is a board member of Sydney Writers’ Festival.

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345: Fact, Fiction or Fake?

PIPPA MASSON (LOCAL)
Pippa Masson is an agent at Curtis Brown and represents a wide variety of Australian fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.

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343: Do I Need An Agent?

CHRIS MASTERS (LOCAL)
Chris Masters is ABC Four Corners' longest serving reporter. He is a four-time Walkley Award winner, including a Gold Walkley in 1985 and has won a Logie Award for Inside a Holocaust, his 1994 account of the Rwanda genocide. Jonestown is his third book and he has previously published two books based on his investigative reporting Inside Story and Not for Publication. Masters is also adjunct professor at RMIT University in Melbourne. A passion for investigating power and its abuse is a constant in Masters 40-year career.

In 'Jonestown and the Niemen Conference' Chris Masters has written a well-rounded, intriguing portrait into the life of one of Sydney’s most well-know broadcasters. Masters presents a rigorous study of Jones’ role and the pervasive influence of talkback on government and policy makers while exploring the potential for media corruption.

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58: Chris Masters: Jonestown & the Nieman Conference

JENI MAWTER (LOCAL)
Jeni Mawter is the author of the hilarious So series; the Freewheeler series, and the novel Team Dream. She has a Masters degree in children's literature. Her enthusiasm for words and books is infectious, and her teaching of creative writing to children inspirational.

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54: CBCA Writing Masterclass with Jeni Mawter

JOHN MAYNARD (LOCAL)
John Maynard is Professorial Chair and Head of the Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle. His new book is Fight for Liberty and Freedom: the origins of Australian Aboriginal activism.

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300: Fight for Liberty and Freedom

STUART MAYNE (INTERSTATE)
Stuart Mayne is a book and magazine editor who has worked in publishing for 16 years or so.

He currently edits Aurealis – Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. Aurealis is Australia’s first and most successful professional fantasy and science fiction magazine, publishing since 1990. Aurealis was designed to help showcase Australian genre talent.

Stuart is also an expert on Australian crime fiction author Arthur Upfield, editing Upfield's last published novel, The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery and a collection of Upfield's unpublished short fiction.

www.aurealis.com.au

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31: Right Down to the Plumbing: Speculative Fiction and World-building

NAJAF MAZARI (INTERSTATE)
Najaf Mazari fled Afghanistan in 2001 after escaping the Taliban and came to Australia as a refugee. His memoir is The Rug Maker of Maza-e-Sharif.

Najaf Mazari’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Insight Publications.

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209: The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

KAREN MCCARTNEY (LOCAL)
Karen McCartney has a wealth of experience in the areas of art, design and style, spanning 20 years and several continents.

After gaining an honours degree in the History of Art and English from University College, London, Karen’s first job was on British magazine Art Monthly. She has written for, among other titles, British Elle Decoration and The Financial Times.

In Australia, Karen edited Marie Claire Lifestyle before becoming founding editor of interiors magazine Inside Out. Karen is now the Editorial Director of Inside Out, Notebook, Australian Country Style and Emporium: The Myer Magazine and lives in Sydney.

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240: What Makes a House Iconic?

ROSS MCCAUL (LOCAL)
Ross McCaul is the Manager Stakeholder Relations at Copyright Agency Limited.

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344: The Future of Reading

DAVID MCCOOEY (INTERSTATE)
David McCooey is the author of Blister Pack and the critical work Art for Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography. He is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Deakin University.

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172: So What is Happening in Contemporary Verse?

WILLA MCDONALD (LOCAL)
Willa McDonald is a senior lecturer in Macquarie University’s Department of Media. She began writing professionally in 1983 when she took a cadetship with The Sydney Morning Herald. Since then she has worked as a journalist/writer with the Bulletin, the Times on Sunday, and as a speechwriter. Her work in the electronic media includes researching the award-winning television documentaries Ladies in Lines and The Time of Your Life. Her writing includes the non-fiction books The Writer's Reader: Understanding Journalism and Non-fiction, co-edited with Susie Eisenhuth and one forthcoming on the peace activism of the Australian poet and academic Dorothy Auchterlonie Green.

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242: Writing Lives

PAUL MCGEOUGH (LOCAL)
Paul McGeough is chief correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and spends much of his time in conflict zones – Iraq and Afghanistan in particular. In close to 20 years as a foreign correspondent, McGeough has travelled to almost 70 countries, reporting on crisis and conflict in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Lebanon, the Balkans, East Timor, Indonesia, Pakistan and Northern Ireland.

He is a former editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and the author of several books, including Manhattan to Baghdad: Despatches from the Frontline in the War on Terror and In Baghdad: A Reporter’s War. His next book, which is on the Middle East, is to be published early next year by Allen & Unwin in Australia and The New Press in the US. McGeough’s career as a journalist began as a cadet reporter on The West Australian in 1975.

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191: When Is War Justified? The Friday Night Salon

MARSHALL MCGUIRE (INTERSTATE)
Marshall McGuire is the Artistic Director of the Utzon Room concert series, and Executive Manager of Artistic Planning for the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra.

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145: Finding the Words to Speak (and Write) about Music

MAXINE MCKEW (LOCAL)
Maxine McKew was born in Brisbane in 1953, attended All Hallows’ School and studied at the University of Queensland.

Maxine won the seat of Bennelong at the 2007 federal election in a famous victory over the incumbent and then PM, John Howard.

Before making the switch to politics, Maxine spent 30 years as a broadcast and print journalist. She is a Walkley and Logie award winner and through coverage of national and international events, earned a reputation as one of the country’s most authoritative interviewers. In 2003 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to broadcasting.

Maxine has always been a strong advocate of opportunities for women, both in her own industry and in the wider workforce. Her voluntary activities over the past decade have included chairmanship of the Advisory Council to the National Breast Cancer Centre and membership of the University of Sydney’s Research Institute for Asia Pacific. She has also served as Patron of Osteoporosis Australia and as a member of the Sydney Symphony Council.

Maxine is now Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care in the Rudd Labor Government.


www.maxinemckew.alp.org.au

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214: Bob Carr in Conversation with Maxine McKew

ELIZABETH MCMAHON (LOCAL)
Elizabeth McMahon teaches literary studies at UNSW. She is the current president of the Association for the Study of Australian literature and co-editor of Southerly, Australia's oldest literary journal. From 1997-2007 she edited the pioneering and hugely successful project of cultural debate, Australian Humanities Review. Her own writing on Australian literature has focussed on gender and transvestism and on the imaginative power of islands.

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118: Sara Knox at Newtown Library

RHYLL MCMASTER (LOCAL)
Rhyll McMaster has worked as a secretary, a nurse in a burns unit and a sheep farmer and her poetry has been published since she was 16. She is the prize-winning author of five poetry books, a radio play, On My Empty Feet, and a number of collaborative artist books including the limited edition Evolutionary History of Edward Kelly in Primary Colours, a poem sequence based on paintings in Sir Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series.

She has been poetry editor of The Canberra Times, a book reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian, a manuscript assessor for the National Book Council, and a film script assessor for the Film Finance Corporation.

Feather Man, a dark social satire about a troubled young artist, set in Brisbane and London, is her first novel. Published in 2007 it has had excellent reviews and was short listed for the Vance Palmer Prize, Victorian Premier’s Awards 2007. It is the winner of the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award 2008 and has just won the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the 2008 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

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45: Readings from the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
102: Grit
245: From Poetry to Prose

PAUL MEMMOTT (LOCAL)
Paul Memmott's research interests on the emerging discipline of person-environment relations and the use of space and place by Aboriginal people led him into the social anthropology of Aboriginal Australia.

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89: Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia

JOHN MEREDITH (LOCAL)
John Meredith works in the film and television industry. He was the inaugural film commissioner and Los Angeles based representative for Ausfilm.

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95: Writing for Young Adults
295: Now and Beyond

CARMEN MICHAEL (LOCAL)
Carmen Michael first visited Brazil in 2003 for one week, and has been there ever since.

After completing a degree in economics at the University of Sydney, she worked in the travel industry and travelled extensively. She contributed to Lonely Planet’s Rio de Janeiro Guide, set up a site for women travellers (www.womantraveller.com), conducted radio interviews for the ABC, and has written articles across a wide variety of subjects, including travel, politics, economics and the arts.

She is the author of Chasing Bohemia: a year of living recklessly in Rio de Janeiro.

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149: Chasing Bohemia and Finding Nino
248: Brazil

PETER MINTER (LOCAL)
Peter Minter is a prize-winning poet, editor and reviewer. He is the author of several collections of poetry including blue grass, Empty Texas and Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, was the editor of the Varuna New Poetry series, a founding editor of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review and co-editor of Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets. From 2000 to 2005 he was poetry editor of Meanjin, and guest editor of two special issues.

He lectures in indigenous studies and poetics at The University of Sydney's Koori Centre.

www.peterminter.com

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147: The Earth That Sustains Us
241: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
300: Fight for Liberty and Freedom

GUY MIRABELLA (LOCAL)
Guy Mirabella was born in Melbourne and lives on the Mornington Peninsula with his family. He is currently happily juggling cooking and business at Shop Ate Café and Store in Mt Eliza. Guy is the author of the highly acclaimed Pasta e Basta and Mirabella Food – Eating Simply Eating Well. Like his other books A Garden of Earthly Delights and Moveable Pleasures, they are a celebration of ingredients, a feast of fresh beautifully balanced flavours and textures.

Guy has also accrued a vast amount of experience over his 25 years as a designer in a variety of settings and now draws on this to undertake a diverse range of projects. Guy has a broad creative background incorporating restaurant ownership and lecturing on graphic design at Swinburne University in Melbourne.

His latest book Eat/Ate focuses on a wider, deeper culture than just that of the kitchen.

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293: Eat Ate: Italian Lunch with Guy Mirabella

NATASHA MITCHELL (LOCAL)
Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning science journalist, and presenter and producer of All in the Mind on ABC Radio National. She interviews authors and thinkers worldwide on themes linking the mind, brain, human behaviour and beyond.

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87: Courage
130: Blubberland
156: When Words and Science Meet

DRUSILLA MODJESKA (LOCAL)
Drusilla Modjeska is possibly one of our most acclaimed writers. She was born in England but has lived in Australia since 1971. Her books include Exiles at Home, Banjo and NSW Premier's Award winning Poppy, Sisters, which she co-edited, the Nita B.Kibble, NSW Premier's Award and Australian Bookseller's Book of the Year Award winner The Orchard, Timepieces and Secrets with Robert Dessaix and Amanda Lohrey.

In 1999 her book Stravinsky's Lunch, one of the most anticipated books of that year, was published. This exhilarating work addressing the dilemma of love and art won the 1999 NSW Premier's Prize for Non-fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Bookseller's Choice Award. Drusilla lives in Sydney.

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143: Lynne Segal in Conversation with Drusilla Modjeska
174: Joan London in Conversation with Drusilla Modjeska

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE (INTERNATIONAL)
Simon Sebag Montifiore’s ancestors escaped from the Tsarist Empire at the turn of the century and this sparked his interest in that part of the world. As a war correspondent in the early 1990s, he witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union, and covered the wars in the Caucasus, from the Karabak to Grozny, as well as events in Moscow and St Petersburg. As a historian, he has researched the Russian archives for ten years. The personal stories he found there, his interviews with Russian families, and his unique knowledge of past and present in Russia, helped inspired this novel Sashenka.

His history books have been universally-acclaimed, prize-winning bestsellers published in 31 languages. Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. His latest history-book Young Stalin won the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Vienna), is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is the winner of the Costa Biography Award. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

Simon Sebag Montifiore’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Random House.

www.simonsebagmontefiore.com

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121: Simon Sebag Montefiore in Conversation with Bob Carr
178: Imagining History
238: The Lives of Others

MARK MORDUE (LOCAL)
Mark Mordue is a writer, journalist and editor. He was awarded the 1992 Human Rights Media Award for his journalism. His travel book Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip was published in both Australia and the USA. Film director Wim Wenders acclaimed it as the first to take the road genre “into the 21st century”.

Mark was 2001 Asialink Australian Writer-in-Residence at Beijing University and currently teaches writing and journalism at the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney. He was also Guest Editor of the Meanjin on Rock ‘n’ Roll issue in November 2006. He is completing his first novel for his MA in Writing (by research) at UTS.
www.markmordue.com

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272: The Soundtrack of My Life

JOYCE MORGAN (LOCAL)
Joyce Morgan is a Sydney Morning Herald journalist, independent traveller and former ABC producer.

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222: In Search of a Story

CAROLINE MORGAN (LOCAL)
Caroline Morgan is General Manager at Copyright Agency Limited.

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110: Screenplays that Sell

BLAKE MORRISON (INTERNATIONAL)
Blake Morrison has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are his two memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which has been made into a film starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent, and Things My Mother Never Told Me.

Since 2003, Blake has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College.

www.blakemorrison.com

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77: Sins of the Father
150: Blake Morrison in Conversation

MARA MOUSTAFINE (LOCAL)
Mara Moustafine is the President of Sydney PEN and author of Secrets & Spies: The Harbin Files, which won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for several other awards. She was Chair of the Judges Panel for the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

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253: PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project

STEPHEN MUECKE (LOCAL)
Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

He has worked extensively in Indigenous Australia and more recently on the historical and contemporary links between culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean.

His 1984 Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe) was one of the first postmodern ethnographies, and he is well known for his ficto-critical writing style (No Road (bitumen all the way).

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85: Stories of Assimilation
97: Identity
284: Honouring Nature

TOMMY MURPHY (LOCAL)
Tommy Murphy is an award-winning playwright with recent productions in New York, San Francisco, Auckland, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's Course) and a former writer in residence at Griffin Theatre Company Sydney.

His play Holding The Man won the NSW Premier's Award for Best Play after its sell-out season at Sydney Opera House. Tommy is the only playwright to win in successive years. In 2006, he was the youngest recipient of the award with Strangers in Between. His other works include Troy’s House, Precipice and an adaptation of Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris.

He has taught theatremaking and writing for NIDA Open Program, Australian Theatre for Young People, University of Sydney Faculty of Education and Social Work, Drama NSW, The World Congress for International Drama/Theatre and Education Association in Hong Kong, Interplay International Playwrights’ Conference in Townsville, The Shakespeare Globe Centre, POM Television Productions in Papua New Guinea, Outback Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Ensemble Page to Stage as well as a variety of schools.

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6: Workshop: Dramatic Action – An Introduction to Writing for the Stage with Tommy Murphy
20: Secondary School Days – Parramatta
35: Secondary School Days – Sydney
188: The Art of Adaptation