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The fourth annual Australian Writers Week in China was presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 7-13 March 2011.
The program focused on literary fiction and included events at the China Writers’ Association, universities, bookshops and other venues in Beijing and Chengdu. Featured emerging and established authors included Christos Tsiolkas, Julia Leigh, Brian Castro, Craig Silvey, Kate Jennings, and Jessica Rudd. Noted translator Mabel Lee also attended, as well as Walkley Book Prize winner Shirley Shackleton.
This initiative was sponsored by Imagine Australia, Copyright Agency Limited, and Anhui Time Publishing Group, with the support of Qantas, the Hilton Chaoyang Hotel, and the Walkley Foundation.
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Brian Castro
Novelist-
Brian Castro was born at sea, between Macao and Hong Kong. His father was descended from Spanish, Portuguese and English merchants who settled in Shanghai at the turn of the century. He is also of Chinese descent through his mother, the daughter of a Chinese farmer and an English missionary. He has published in English, which was first taught him by his maternal grandmother but his first language was Cantonese Chinese, followed by English, Mecanese (a 'hybrid' Portuguese spoken in Macao) and French.
In 1988, Birds of Passage was translated into Chinese by Li Yao, President of the Writer's Association of Inner Mongolia, as was his other award winning novel, After China. In 1994 he was writer-in-residence at the University of Hong Kong and in the latter part of 1995 he was Writing Fellow at the Australian National University, the University of Canberra and University College, Australian Defence Force Academy.
In 2008, Castro was appointed to the position of Professor of Creative Writing, University of Adelaide.
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1790611693837436668.jpgBlindness and Rage : A Phantasmagoria : A Novel in Thirty-four Cantos Brian Castro , 2017 single work novel
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Kate Jennings
Poet-
Kate Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. While earning a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Sydney during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jennings was active in left-wing politics and feminism, later editing Mother I'm Rooted (1975), a collection of contemporary women's poetry. In 1975 Jennings published her first collection of her own poems, Come to Me My Melancholy Baby, exploring the trials of being a feminist poet in the 1970s. Jennings left Australia for New York in 1979 where she has worked as a writer, editor, and speechwriter for a major investment bank.
Jennings has written short stories, essays, poetry and novels and, in 1993, began a period as poetry editor for the Bulletin. In 2002 Jennings published Moral Hazard, a novel set in New York, drawing on her experience as a speechwriter and her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease. The novel won several prizes including the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
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Mabel Lee
Poet-
Mabel Lee was born in western New South Wales (NSW) and was raised in Sydney's western suburbs. She attended the University of Sydney and taught Chinese Studies there from 1966-2000 becoming Associate Professor in Chinese Studies. Her particular field has been twentieth-century Chinese literature and history. As a leading authority on Paris-based writer/critic Gao Xingjian and the writing of Australasian-based poet Yang Lian, she has translated contemporary Chinese works into English. These include Gao Xingjian's novel Soul Mountain, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. In 2001, Lee was awarded also the PEN Medallion.
Lee co-founded Wild Peony Press and was a member the editorial board of Literature and Aesthetics, the journal of the Sydney Aesthetics Society. She has been co-editor of two University of Sydney series, The East Asian Series and the World Literature Series, with a desire to promote greater understanding of 'Asian' peoples in the English-speaking world. She has contributed to several books on Chinese grammar and language.
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3221813400573364961.jpgI Too Am Salammbo Hong Ying , Mabel Lee (translator), 2015 selected work poetry
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Poems of Hong Ying, Zhai Yongming & Yang Lian Hong Ying , Zhai Yongming , Yang Lian , Mabel Lee (translator), Naikan Tao (translator), Tony Prince (translator), 2014 selected work poetry
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Julia Leigh
Novelist-
Julia Leigh studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney and in 1989 was editor of the University's student paper, Honi Soit. Leigh's first novel The Hunter was published to national and international acclaim and reviewed widely. The novel was named as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year in 2001 and was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US. In the UK it was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2000 and Leigh was nominated by the Observer as one of the 21 writers for the 21st century.
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7405771215988579983.jpg1990736720313773009.jpg2099064281865124155.jpgAvalanche : A Love Story Julia Leigh , 2016 single work autobiography
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Jessica Rudd
Writer-
Jessica Rudd has worked as a lawyer and a political campaigner. In 2010, she was living with her husband in Beijing.
Rudd is the daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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Craig Silvey
Novelist-
Craig Silvey grew up on an orchard in Dwellingup, a small town in timber and fruit-growing lands in in south-west Western Australia. Silvery wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, when he was nineteen: it was published in 2004. The novel was the inaugural book for the 'One Book' series of events at the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival.
Silvey's next novel, Jasper Jones, was published in 2009. The novel was wildly successful: it won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards fiction prize, and two Indie Awards (Book of the Year and Fiction), and was shortlisted and longlisted for a range of other national and international prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award, the Dylan Thomas prize, and the Dublin Literary Award.
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Amber_FWS2.jpg5148378775008902541.jpg806646621803336203.jpgThe Amber Amulet Craig Silvey , 2012 single work novella
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Christos Tsiolkas
Novelist and Short Story Writer-
Christos Tsiolkas, the son of Greek migrants, lived in a working class, predominantly Greek, Melbourne inner city suburb and attended state schools including Blackburn High School. He completed an Arts degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987 and has worked as a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright.
Christos has been shortlisted for several awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and won many awards including the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and the Melbourne Best Writing Award. His novel Loaded was adapted into a film, and The Slap and Barracuda have been adapted for television.
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7373127005348700508.jpg3013673331830637416.jpg2096200421313016312.jpegMerciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas , 2014 selected work short story
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Original Media Release
Title: 2011 Australian Writers’ Week Press Release and Event Schedule
21 February 2011
'A fascinating line-up of emerging and established Australian authors will be kept busy with a packed program of events for the Australian Embassy Beijing’s fourth annual Australian Writers’ Week, 7-13 March 2011.
'With a program that includes events at the China Writers’ Association, universities, bookshops and other venues in Beijing and Chengdu, the week will once again showcase the unique and diverse voices of contemporary Australian literature, with a focus on literary fiction.
'Australian Writers Week 2011 is the largest yet, bringing together eight Australian authors, including Christos Tsiolkas, Julia Leigh, Brian Castro, Craig Silvey, Kate Jennings and Jessica Rudd. Noted translator Mabel Lee will also attend, as well as Walkley Book Prize winner Shirley Shackleton.
' “Over the years, Australian Writers’ Week has been very effective at providing unique opportunities for Chinese readers, students and future leaders to hear Australian literary voices”, Australian Ambassador to China Dr Geoff Raby said.
' “In 2011 we will present our biggest line-up ever, with eight authors and twelve publishers participating in our events. Writers’ Week not only brings Australian and Chinese literary communities closer together, it also provides genuine publishing opportunities for all our participants” Dr Raby said.
'The Australian Embassy is also delighted to announce a new partnership with China’s General Administration of Print and Publishing to host the fourth Australia-China Publishing Forum. Over the years the forum has matured to offer genuine and tangible trade opportunities for participants. A strong contingent of Australian publishing companies will attend the forum this year, to meet and develop ongoing connections with top Chinese publishing houses.
'2011 Writers’ Week and the Publishing Forum form part of Imagine Australia, the Year of Australian Culture in China. This bilateral cultural program is the largest Australian Government-supported arts initiative ever to be hosted in China and emphasises collaboration and cultural exchange.
'Writers’ Week is presented by the Australian Embassy Beijing. This event would not be possible without the generous sponsorship of our Imagine Australia major sponsors and our Writers’ Week major event sponsors Copyright Agency Limited and Anhui Time Publishing Group. We also thank Qantas and Hilton Chaoyang Hotel for their support, and the Walkley Foundation for bringing Shirley Shackleton to Writers’ Week.'
Source: Australia China Embassy.
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