S. Shakthidharan: Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath

A journey across an ocean from Sri Lanka to Australia, one family’s story of starting over.

S. Shakthidharan moved audiences with Counting and Cracking, a play selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and the winner of both Victorian and NSW Literary Awards. In this poetic and profound memoir, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, S. traces a lineage of movement for his family and the house his great-grandparents built in Colombo to the suburbs of Western Sydney.

Hear S. Shakthidharan discuss the intimate portrait of his family in conversation with Benjamin Law.