Claudia Roden

Chair: Amanda Vanstone. More than 50 years ago, Claudia Roden’s A Book of Middle Eastern Food introduced the flavours of the Middle East to western readers. Long before Ottolenghi, she introduced homecooks around the world to the delights of cumin and coriander from Egypt, sumac and tamarind from Syria and Lebanon, pomegranates from Iran and harissa from Africa. Claudia Roden CBE talks about flavours and cooking at home with the Hon Amanda Vanstone AO, owner of over 500 cookbooks and a whiz with braised duck and turnips. Event details: This conversation was not held live in front of an audience at Adelaide Writers' Week but was recorded separately.

Chair: Amanda Vanstone. More than 50 years ago, Claudia Roden’s A Book of Middle Eastern Food introduced the flavours of the Middle East to western readers. Long before Ottolenghi, she introduced homecooks around the world to the delights of cumin and coriander from Egypt, sumac and tamarind from Syria and Lebanon, pomegranates from Iran and harissa from Africa. Claudia Roden CBE talks about flavours and cooking at home with the Hon Amanda Vanstone AO, owner of over 500 cookbooks and a whiz with braised duck and turnips. Event details: This conversation was not held live in front of an audience at Adelaide Writers' Week but was recorded separately.

AWW23: Food for Thought - Claudia Roden

Fiona McFarlane

Chair: Jo Case A six-year-old child disappears in a dust storm in the Flinders Ranges. It’s a familiar literary trope about lost white children and reflects the anxiety in 19th century colonial Australia about the dangers of the wilderness. The same anxiety, unsurprisingly, did not accompany the Stolen Generations, forever lost to their families and cultures. In her latest novel of competing parallel narratives, The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane explores who belongs to the land and who are the interlopers. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the West Stage

Chair: Jo Case A six-year-old child disappears in a dust storm in the Flinders Ranges. It’s a familiar literary trope about lost white children and reflects the anxiety in 19th century colonial Australia about the dangers of the wilderness. The same anxiety, unsurprisingly, did not accompany the Stolen Generations, forever lost to their families and cultures. In her latest novel of competing parallel narratives, The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane explores who belongs to the land and who are the interlopers. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the West Stage

AWW23: Unbelonging - Fiona McFarlane

Wendy Whiteley

Ashleigh Wilson

Chair: Katrina Strickland Wendy Whiteley has long been responsible for Brett Whiteley’s legacy, but she is also an artist in her own right and an important figure in the Australian art world. How does the role of ’keeper of the flame’ impact on the inheritor of that task? Should we separate Brett Whiteley and his behavior from his art? Ashleigh Wilson talks about his year-long conversation with Wendy Whiteley and what he discovered about one of our most iconic ’brothers of the brush’. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 3:45pm on the West Stage

Chair: Katrina Strickland Wendy Whiteley has long been responsible for Brett Whiteley’s legacy, but she is also an artist in her own right and an important figure in the Australian art world. How does the role of ’keeper of the flame’ impact on the inheritor of that task? Should we separate Brett Whiteley and his behavior from his art? Ashleigh Wilson talks about his year-long conversation with Wendy Whiteley and what he discovered about one of our most iconic ’brothers of the brush’. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 3:45pm on the West Stage

AWW23: Artists and Their Legacies - Wendy Whiteley & Ashleigh Wilson

Chair: Bob Carr Louis Menand, the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Metaphysical Club, tells the story of America after the Second World War in his latest book, The Free World. With references to luminaries such as Jack Kerouac, Elvis Presley, Susan Sontag and James Baldwin, Menand explores the significant cultural figures of the Cold War period, when “ideas mattered, painting mattered, movies mattered, poetry mattered". Supported by the Consulate of the United States. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 2:30pm

Chair: Bob Carr Louis Menand, the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Metaphysical Club, tells the story of America after the Second World War in his latest book, The Free World. With references to luminaries such as Jack Kerouac, Elvis Presley, Susan Sontag and James Baldwin, Menand explores the significant cultural figures of the Cold War period, when “ideas mattered, painting mattered, movies mattered, poetry mattered". Supported by the Consulate of the United States. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 2:30pm

AWW23: Cold War, Hot Culture - Louis Menand

John Boyne

Chair: Jonathan Green In both the bestselling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and its recently published sequel, All the Broken Places, John Boyne has taken on the difficult terrain of fictionalising the Holocaust. But how should novelists write about this period? Does historical accuracy matter? Are these contemporary novels written to stir our collective conscience or to remind us of the moral choices individuals make in dangerous times? Join us as Boyne reflects on these issues in the context of his novels for adults and younger readers. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 1:15pm on the West Stage

Chair: Jonathan Green In both the bestselling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and its recently published sequel, All the Broken Places, John Boyne has taken on the difficult terrain of fictionalising the Holocaust. But how should novelists write about this period? Does historical accuracy matter? Are these contemporary novels written to stir our collective conscience or to remind us of the moral choices individuals make in dangerous times? Join us as Boyne reflects on these issues in the context of his novels for adults and younger readers. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 1:15pm on the West Stage

AWW23: History Lessons - John Boyne

Kate Legge

Chair: Katrina Strickland It seems that no one knows everything that happens in a marriage, not even the people in it. Join award-winning writer and journalist Kate Legge as she reveals what she learned about infidelity and why revenge seemed ultimately unsatisfying. In her book, Infidelity and Other Affairs, Legge explores the causes of cheating and its aftereffects on the cheater and the cheated-on. She spills the beans and shares her insights in this revealing conversation. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12pm on the West Stage

Chair: Katrina Strickland It seems that no one knows everything that happens in a marriage, not even the people in it. Join award-winning writer and journalist Kate Legge as she reveals what she learned about infidelity and why revenge seemed ultimately unsatisfying. In her book, Infidelity and Other Affairs, Legge explores the causes of cheating and its aftereffects on the cheater and the cheated-on. She spills the beans and shares her insights in this revealing conversation. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12pm on the West Stage

AWW23: Affairs of the Heart - Kate Legge

Inala Cooper

Chair: Amy McQuire Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman with German and Irish heritage. In Marrul: Aboriginal Identity and the Fight for Rights, she shares a deeply personal and moving account of the impact of colonisation on her family. In this session, Cooper explores what self-determination means for First Nations people and why reconciliation is a vital step in our understanding of the forces that shaped Australia today. Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.  Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the West Stage

Chair: Amy McQuire Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman with German and Irish heritage. In Marrul: Aboriginal Identity and the Fight for Rights, she shares a deeply personal and moving account of the impact of colonisation on her family. In this session, Cooper explores what self-determination means for First Nations people and why reconciliation is a vital step in our understanding of the forces that shaped Australia today. Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.  Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the West Stage

AWW23: Holding White Australia to Account - Inala Cooper

Brigid Delaney

Chair: Caroline Overington War, plague and catastrophic climate change are the collective terrors of modern life. Endlessly proliferating social media platforms are spaces onto which we can project and amplify our anxieties. In her latest book, Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times, Brigid Delaney turns to the Stoics for answers and offers a kind of ancient Athenian self-help. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the West Stage

Chair: Caroline Overington War, plague and catastrophic climate change are the collective terrors of modern life. Endlessly proliferating social media platforms are spaces onto which we can project and amplify our anxieties. In her latest book, Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times, Brigid Delaney turns to the Stoics for answers and offers a kind of ancient Athenian self-help. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the West Stage

AWW23: Start Worrying, Details to Follow - Brigid Delaney

Alexander McCall Smith

Chair: Sue Turnbull Alexander McCall Smith is a man of many talents. An Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, he is perhaps best known for his entertaining crime books, including The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. These beloved works are just the tip of a prolific iceberg that encompasses everything from philosophy to children’s literature. In this session, he’ll turn his hand to a new task - attempting to convince crime reviewer and academic Sue Turnbull to open the untouched volume of W.H. Auden poetry she won as a school prize in 1969. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the East Stage

Chair: Sue Turnbull Alexander McCall Smith is a man of many talents. An Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, he is perhaps best known for his entertaining crime books, including The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. These beloved works are just the tip of a prolific iceberg that encompasses everything from philosophy to children’s literature. In this session, he’ll turn his hand to a new task - attempting to convince crime reviewer and academic Sue Turnbull to open the untouched volume of W.H. Auden poetry she won as a school prize in 1969. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the East Stage

AWW23: Meet a Polymath - Alexander McCall Smith

Peter FitzSimons

Chair: Peter Brune The Battle of Long Tan was the deadliest battle for Australian forces in Vietnam and every ANZAC who fought there could hold his head high. Peter FitzSimons and military historian Peter Brune discuss the events leading up to that terrible battle and the long war that followed. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 3:45pm on the East Stage

Chair: Peter Brune The Battle of Long Tan was the deadliest battle for Australian forces in Vietnam and every ANZAC who fought there could hold his head high. Peter FitzSimons and military historian Peter Brune discuss the events leading up to that terrible battle and the long war that followed. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 3:45pm on the East Stage

AWW23: The Battle for Long Tan - Peter FitzSimons

Australia's largest free literary Festival, held in March in Adelaide, South Australia.

Simon Holmes

Ross Garnaut

Chair: Marian Wilkinson Two of the most innovative minds in the business tell us if the energy transition plan can work in time to save our planet. Join Simon Holmes à Court, founder of Climate 200, and economist Ross Garnaut in conversation with Marian Wilkinson, a Walkley Award-winning journalist and author of The Carbon Club. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 2:30pm on the East Stage

Chair: Marian Wilkinson Two of the most innovative minds in the business tell us if the energy transition plan can work in time to save our planet. Join Simon Holmes à Court, founder of Climate 200, and economist Ross Garnaut in conversation with Marian Wilkinson, a Walkley Award-winning journalist and author of The Carbon Club. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 2:30pm on the East Stage

AWW23: The Planet's Clock is Ticking - Ross Garnaut & Simon Holmes à Court

Jane Harper

Chair: Beejay Silcox Critic Beejay Silcox has suggested that Jane Harper’s “outback noir mega-hit The Dry kick-started a crime-writing boom… the drought blighted bush town became a genre trope: Australia’s sunburned answer to the arid cold of Scandi noir". Her subsequent novels have received international acclaim and have cemented Harper’s place in the crime genre. She joins Silcox to talk about the intersection of character, plot and landscape and what becoming an international bestseller has meant to her writing. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 1:15pm on the East Stage

Chair: Beejay Silcox Critic Beejay Silcox has suggested that Jane Harper’s “outback noir mega-hit The Dry kick-started a crime-writing boom… the drought blighted bush town became a genre trope: Australia’s sunburned answer to the arid cold of Scandi noir". Her subsequent novels have received international acclaim and have cemented Harper’s place in the crime genre. She joins Silcox to talk about the intersection of character, plot and landscape and what becoming an international bestseller has meant to her writing. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 1:15pm on the East Stage

AWW23: The Aussie Queen of Noir - Jane Harper

Sayed Kashua

Chair: Chris Taylor Acclaimed Palestinian citizen of Israel, screenwriter and novelist Sayed Kashua decided on ’voluntary exile’ in 2014. He wrote two of Israel’s most popular sitcoms, the satirical Arab Labor and The Writer, as well as a sardonic weekly column in Haaretz devoted to telling the story of Palestinians living in Israel – ironic and poignant, it is at times a dark story and at other times an absurd one. After almost 10 years living in America, Kashua talks to Chris Taylor about satire, writing and the Middle East. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12:00pm on the East Stage

Chair: Chris Taylor Acclaimed Palestinian citizen of Israel, screenwriter and novelist Sayed Kashua decided on ’voluntary exile’ in 2014. He wrote two of Israel’s most popular sitcoms, the satirical Arab Labor and The Writer, as well as a sardonic weekly column in Haaretz devoted to telling the story of Palestinians living in Israel – ironic and poignant, it is at times a dark story and at other times an absurd one. After almost 10 years living in America, Kashua talks to Chris Taylor about satire, writing and the Middle East. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12:00pm on the East Stage

AWW23: The Survivor's Humour - Sayed Kashua

Chair: Louise Milligan Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame is a public voice and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. She is also the author of a new memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner. Tame sits down with award-winning Four Corners journalist Louise Milligan for a conversation about finding one’s voice, speaking truth to power and why sometimes only a side-eye will suffice. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the East Stage

Chair: Louise Milligan Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame is a public voice and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. She is also the author of a new memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner. Tame sits down with award-winning Four Corners journalist Louise Milligan for a conversation about finding one’s voice, speaking truth to power and why sometimes only a side-eye will suffice. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the East Stage

AWW23: "May These Words Bring You Home" - Grace Tame

Alex Miller

Chair: Jonathan Green Two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Alex Miller is a giant of Australian literature. His latest novel, A Brief Affair, engages with one of literature’s most compelling subjects – unhappy women. He talks to journalist Jonathan Green about this deeply moving novel, the question of authenticity and the writer’s fidelity to imaginative truth. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the East Stage

Chair: Jonathan Green Two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Alex Miller is a giant of Australian literature. His latest novel, A Brief Affair, engages with one of literature’s most compelling subjects – unhappy women. He talks to journalist Jonathan Green about this deeply moving novel, the question of authenticity and the writer’s fidelity to imaginative truth. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the East Stage

AWW23: Life is a Brief Affair - Alex Miller

Karen Wyld

Lorna Munro

First Nations people in Australia and Palestinians share a history of struggle and resistance against the racism of settler colonial states. Join Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa and Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman Lorna Munro in conversation with award-winning author Karen Wyld for a discussion on resistance, survival and international solidarity. Through writing and activism, both fights have carved a voice for independence, self-determination and justice. Presented by Writers SA. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12:00pm on the North Stage

First Nations people in Australia and Palestinians share a history of struggle and resistance against the racism of settler colonial states. Join Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa and Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman Lorna Munro in conversation with award-winning author Karen Wyld for a discussion on resistance, survival and international solidarity. Through writing and activism, both fights have carved a voice for independence, self-determination and justice. Presented by Writers SA. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 12:00pm on the North Stage

AWW23: Sovereignty and Solidarity - Susan Abulhawa, Lorna Munro & Karen Wyld

Jane Turner

Chair: Patrick Flanery Join novelist and University of Adelaide Chair of Creative Writing Patrick Flanery for an hour of reading and conversation about what it means to be studying and working as a creative writer today. The session features a line-up of emerging Adelaide writers, including celebrated memoirist Shannon Burns, psychologist and novelist Jane Turner Goldsmith, and poet and critic Gemma Parker, as well as up-andcoming young writers Alex Sutcliffe and Gillian Hagenus. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage

Chair: Patrick Flanery Join novelist and University of Adelaide Chair of Creative Writing Patrick Flanery for an hour of reading and conversation about what it means to be studying and working as a creative writer today. The session features a line-up of emerging Adelaide writers, including celebrated memoirist Shannon Burns, psychologist and novelist Jane Turner Goldsmith, and poet and critic Gemma Parker, as well as up-andcoming young writers Alex Sutcliffe and Gillian Hagenus. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage

AWW23: Thinking Writing Now - Shannon Burns, Gillian Hagenus, Gemma Parker, Alex Sutcliffe & Jane Turner Goldsmith

Ahdaf Soueif

Writer, political activist and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif is the Eminence Grise of the Arab literary world. Over a 40-year career, she has published short stories, essays and a novel, The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, Soueif founded the Palestine Festival of Literature. Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian playwright and poet, joins Soueif to discuss her oeuvre and the context of her writing. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the North Stage

Writer, political activist and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif is the Eminence Grise of the Arab literary world. Over a 40-year career, she has published short stories, essays and a novel, The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, Soueif founded the Palestine Festival of Literature. Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian playwright and poet, joins Soueif to discuss her oeuvre and the context of her writing. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 9:30am on the North Stage

AWW23: The Eminence Grise of Arab Literary Culture - Ahdaf Soueif

Sally Hepworth

ABOUT THIS SESSIONSally Hepworth, the author of The Soulmate, in conversation with Alex Lloyd, Publisher at Pan Macmillan. ABOUT THIS SERIESMany an editor has described herself – and yes, it is usually a ’her’ – as a handmaiden to the creativity of the author. What does an author want from an editor? Should an editor be there to tell the truth, to act as a one-person cheer squad or as an intelligent interlocutor? And what is the 21st century equivalent of the editor’s blue pencil? Some of our finest editors talk with their bestselling authors about the editorial process.  Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 12:00pm on the North Stage

ABOUT THIS SESSION Sally Hepworth, the author of The Soulmate, in conversation with Alex Lloyd, Publisher at Pan Macmillan. ABOUT THIS SERIES Many an editor has described herself – and yes, it is usually a ’her’ – as a handmaiden to the creativity of the author. What does an author want from an editor? Should an editor be there to tell the truth, to act as a one-person cheer squad or as an intelligent interlocutor? And what is the 21st century equivalent of the editor’s blue pencil? Some of our finest editors talk with their bestselling authors about the editorial process.  Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 12:00pm on the North Stage

AWW23: My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor? - Sally Hepworth & Alex Lloyd

Catherine Therese

ABOUT THIS SESSION​Catherine Therese, the author of Things She Would Have Said Herself, tells editor Vanessa Radnidge, Head of Nonfiction &amp; Literary at Hachette Australia, what she would say now. ABOUT THIS SERIESMany an editor has described herself – and yes, it is usually a ’her’ – as a handmaiden to the creativity of the author. What does an author want from an editor? Should an editor be there to tell the truth, to act as a one-person cheer squad or as an intelligent interlocutor? And what is the 21st century equivalent of the editor’s blue pencil? Some of our finest editors talk with their bestselling authors about the editorial process.  Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage 

ABOUT THIS SESSION ​Catherine Therese, the author of Things She Would Have Said Herself, tells editor Vanessa Radnidge, Head of Nonfiction &amp; Literary at Hachette Australia, what she would say now. ABOUT THIS SERIES Many an editor has described herself – and yes, it is usually a ’her’ – as a handmaiden to the creativity of the author. What does an author want from an editor? Should an editor be there to tell the truth, to act as a one-person cheer squad or as an intelligent interlocutor? And what is the 21st century equivalent of the editor’s blue pencil? Some of our finest editors talk with their bestselling authors about the editorial process.  Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage

AWW23: My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor? - Vanessa Radnidge & Catherine Therese

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