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Michaela Kalowski (Australian)
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer and producer for the ABC. Recent radio interviews include; pianist Garrick Ohlsson, writer Anna Goldsworthy, Ladino singer Yasmin Levy and folk-musician Laura Marling. She's conducted live interviews with poet/writer Amos Oz and Thomas Keneally in front of public audiences. Michaela's produced theatre in Sydney since 1998 and worked for many years in the film industry as a Music Supervisor (Romulus, My Father, Balibo). She holds an arts/law degree from UNSW. Michaela currently works as researcher/producer on The Margaret Throsby Program (Classic FM). |
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Sarah Kanowski
Sarah Kanowski is the presenter of Weekend Arts on ABC Radio National. She is the former editor of Island magazine in Tasmania and has a Masters Degree in English Literature from Oxford University. Appearing at... |
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Kooshyar Karimi (Australian)
Kooshyar Karimi grew up in abject poverty in the slums of Tehran. His Jewish mother married a Moslem bus driver unaware that he already had three wives and six other children. By the age of 26, Karimi had become a successful doctor, writer and translator. In 1998, he was kidnapped by the Iranian secret police, blindfolded and tortured. When he was eventually released, it was only as a spy. I confess is the story of his survival and flight from certain death. Dr Karimi now lives in Sydney and works as a GP near Newcastle. |
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Shehan Karunatilaka (International)
Shehan Karunatilaka has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories and basslines. Chinaman is his first novel. |
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Claudia Karvan (Australian)
Claudia Karvan will soon be seen in the new ABC drama, The Time Of Our Lives and SBS miniseries, Better Man. Claudia’s recent films include the Spierig brothers’ feature Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke and 33 Postcards with Guy Pearce. Her other feature credits include The Heartbreak Kid, Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide, Phillip Noyce’s Echoes of Paradise, Paperback Hero with Hugh Jackman, and Long Weekend with Jim Caviezel. Claudia is the creator, producer and star of the Foxtel series Spirited and Love My Way. Her other television credits include Puberty Blues, The Secret Life Of Us, Farscape, My Brother Jack, Small Claims and Tony Ayres’ Saved. |
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Danny Katz (Australian)
Danny Katz is a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He writes the Modern Guru column in the Good Weekend magazine. He is the author of Spit the Dummy, Dork Geek Jew, the Little Lunch series for kids and most recently S.C.U.M. |
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Jackie Kay (International)
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the autobiographical Red Dust Road won the 2011 Book of the Year at the Scottish Book Awards. She has published two previous collections of stories, Why Don’t You Stop Talking and Wish I Was Here. She teaches at Newcastle University, and lives in Manchester. |
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Jude Kelly (International)
Jude Kelly is artistic director of Southbank Centre, Britain’s largest cultural institution. She founded Solent People's Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, and was the founding director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In 1997, she was awarded an OBE for her services to theatre. She has directed over 100 productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company, to the Châtalet in Paris. In 2002, Jude founded Metal, a platform where artistic hunches can be pursued in community contexts, based in Liverpool and Southend-On-Sea. Jude is chair of Metal, World Book Night and a member of the London Cultural Strategy Group and Cultural Olympiad Board. |
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Cate Kennedy (Australian)
Cate Kennedy is an award-winning short-story writer, novelist and poet. Her novel The World Beneath won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2012. Her other books include: Dark Roots, Sing, and Don’t Cry. Her poetry collections include Joyflight, and The Taste of River Water which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry in 2011. Like a House on Fire is her most recent collection of stories. Cate lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north east Victoria. |
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Hannah Kent (Australian)
Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. As a teenager she travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange, where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir. Hannah is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Burial Rites is her first novel. |
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Rachel Kent (Australian)
Rachel Kent is the Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Rachel has presented exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA and Canada. She speaks and publishes widely on contemporary art and curatorial practice, and is the curator of Wangechi Mutu’s solo exhibition currently on display at the MCA. Forthcoming exhibitions include a five decades survey by contemporary artist and performer Yoko Ono. |
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Jacqueline Kent (Australian)
Jacqueline Kent is an award-winning biographer who has also written social history, fiction, young adult fiction, general articles and literary journalism. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS. A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life won the 2002 National Biography Award and the Nita B. Kibble Award. An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin won the 2009 Nita B. Kibble Award. Her most recent book is The Making of Julia Gillard. She lives in Sydney. |
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Fenella Kernebone (Australian)
In 2010–2011, Fenella hosted Art nation on ABC TV and, previous to that, presented and produced on the arts show Sunday arts. Between 2004 and 2006 she co-hosted The movie show on SBS TV. In addition to her role on Radio National’s By design, Fenella is also the host of the long-running, cult electronic music show The Sound Lab on triple j. |
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Elaf Khaleel (Australian)
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Andrew Khedoori (Australian)
Andrew Khedoori is 2SER-FM's Music Director and is one of the presenters the radio station's In Conversation series. He has also written for various publications including The Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone and runs the acclaimed independent record label, Preservation. |
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Gretel Killeen (Australian)
Gretel Killeen is the author of more than 20 books. She has hosted radio and television programs across the country, worked as a journalist, stand-up comic and voice artist and written and directed works to raise awareness of AIDS orphans in Zambia, unexploded ordinance in Laos, poverty in Bangladesh, Australia Day in Taren Kaut and rabies eradication in India. Gretel recently completed writing and directing her first feature film, Jimmy and Gret Don’t Do Sex and is currently writing a new play, The Invisible Lovers. |
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Krissy Kneen (Australian)
Krissy Kneen is a bookseller and writer in Brisbane. Her memoir, Affection, was published in 2009 and shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and the ABIA Award in 2010. Krissy is also the author of the erotic adventure, Triptych, which was published in 2011. Steeplechase is her first non-erotic novel. |
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Dominic Knight (Australian)
Dominic Knight presents Evenings on 702 ABC Sydney and ABC Local Radio NSW/ACT. He’s one of the founders of The Chaser, and recently celebrated 10 years since his last arrest. He has written the novels Disco Boy and Comrades, which he describes as ‘like David Foster Wallace, in that they are written in English’. Man vs Child will be released in August, and reflects his experiences with radio, comedy and ongoing immaturity. |
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Malcolm Knox (Australian)
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Ramona Koval (Australian)
Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist and broadcaster, and her most recent book is By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life. She is the editor of Best Australian Essays 2012. Ramona Koval presents The Monthly Book podcast for The Monthly website and was the presenter of ABC Radio National’s The Book Show for many years. |
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Lawrence Krauss (International)
Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned cosmologist and science populariser, and is foundation professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is also the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, and his most recent bestseller A Universe from Nothing, being translated into 20 languages. Internationally known for his work in theoretical physics and cosmology, he is the only physicist to have received major awards from all three US physics societies. A new feature film, The Unbelievers, following Krauss and Richard Dawkins as they traveled around the world discussing science and reason, has its world premiere in 2013 and will soon appear in theaters. |
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Tony Kravitz (Australian)
Tony Krawitz is the writer/director of The Tall Man adapted from the book by Chloe Hooper. The Tall Man premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2010 and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival followed by a theatrical release in 2011. Tony recently directed Dead Europe (2012) which premiered at Sydney Film Festival and has screened at Melbourne, New Zealand, Toronto and London Film Festivals to much acclaim. |
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Anna Krien (Australian)
Anna Krien is the author of Night Games, Into the Woods and the Quarterly Essay Us and Them. Into the Woods won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award. Us and Them won the 2012 Voiceless Writing Prize, and was shortlisted for the John Button Prize and a Walkley Award. Her writing has been published in The Monthly, The Age, The Best Australian Essays, The Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. |
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Aleksandra Krotoski (International)
Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human science series and the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast. Her recently published book, Untangling the Web, is based on her Guardian and Observer column. |
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Ambelin Kwaymullina (Australian)
Ambelin Kwaymullina loves reading sci-fi/fantasy books, and has wanted to write a novel since she was six years old. She comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of WA. When not writing or reading she teaches law, illustrates picture books, and hangs out with her dogs. She has previously written a number of children’s books, both alone and with other members of her family. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf is her first novel. |
