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A PALS - China Exhibition
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The third annual Australian Writers Week in China was presented in Beijing and Chengdu by the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 8-14 March 2010.
The program showcased a wide variety of award-winning contemporary Australian fiction, nonfiction and poetry, with a focus on ‘True Stories’. Australian authors Alexis Wright, Les Murray, Robert Dessaix, Linda Jaivin, Alice Pung and Graham Freudenberg participated in a series of book talks, workshops, panel discussions and forums at universities, The Bookworm, The National Library of China, and the Australian Embassy in Beijing.
This initiative was sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited, with support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Fortescue Metals, Hilton Beijing, Qantas and Austrade.
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Linda Jaivin
Novelist-
Linda Jaivin received a degree in Asian Studies and Political Science from Brown University. She then travelled to the Far East, living and working in Taiwan (1977-1979), Hong Kong (1979-1985), and Beijing (1985-1986). During this time she furthered her study of Mandarin and became Asia Week's corespondent for Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, specialising in Chinese culture and current affairs.
Immigrating to Australia in 1986, Jaivin continued to work as a freelance writer in the field of Chinese contemporary culture and as a translator. She also began contributing erotic stories to Australian magazines.
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Robert Dessaix
Writer-
Robert Dessaix was born in Sydney, and educated at North Sydney Boys High School and the Australian National University. His interest in Russian literature led him to study in Moscow during the late 1960s and early 1970s. After teaching Russian language and literature at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University for almost twenty years, Dessaix began a career as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster.
From 1985, Dessaix produced and presented the ABC Radio program Books and Writing for ten years. He has published translations, collections of prose, and novels, winning several awards in the late 1990s. In 2002, he was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre de Arts des Lettres for services to French culture. His works have won and been shortlisted for a range of prestigious Australian prizes, including the Colin Roderick Award, the Margaret Scott Prize, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
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7641817448982278744.jpg3895954170433333925.jpgArabesques : A Tale of Double Lives Robert Dessaix , 2008 single work autobiography
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3796940607306514420.jpg1835669967697517727.jpg4615628908845011191.jpgCorfu : A Novel Robert Dessaix , 2001 single work novel
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Graham Freudenberg
Biographer-
Graham Freudenberg was a journalist, author and speechwriter for the Australian Labor Party. He principally wrote for the federal Labor leaders Arthur Calwell, Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke and the New South Wales Labor premiers Neville Wran, Barrie Unsworth and Bob Carr.
Freudenberg is most famous for his work for Whitlam, including the “It’s time” speech delivered as Whitlam led Labor out of a 23-year stretch in opposition in 1972. He was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1990 and inducted as a lifetime member of the Labor party in 2005.
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1984757518992066670.jpgA Figure of Speech : A Political Memoir Graham Freudenberg , 2005 single work autobiography
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2826557857716386272.jpgA Certain Grandeur : Gough Whitlam in Politics Graham Freudenberg , 1977 single work biography
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Les Murray
Poet-
Les Murray grew up on his grandfather's small dairy farm in the close-knit Presbyterian community of Bunyah, and attended area schools before matriculating to Sydney University in 1957. Les Murray served as editor of Poetry Australia (1973-1979), poetry editor of Angus and Robertson (1976-1990), and literary editor of Quadrant from 1990 to 2018. He received numerous grants and fellowships and held appointments as writer-in-residence at several universities, as well as working as a reviewer and columnist for newspapers and journals.
Les Murray received international recognition unprecedented for an Australian poet. His work has been widely published in Europe and North America, and translated into a number of other languages. Murray was made an honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999. He received an honorary D. Litt. from the University of New England and was a member of the Order of Australia.
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8495419965794053363.jpg6346983218735706603.jpg5680886180833836249.gifOn Bunyah Les Murray , 2015 selected work poetry
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8947491348596363451.jpg6932011730400154033.jpgWaiting for the Past Les Murray , 2015 selected work poetry
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Alice Pung
Writer-
Alice Pung is a writer and lawyer born in Footscray, Victoria, and grew up in Braybrook, attending local primary and secondary schools in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. Her parents are Teochew Chinese from Cambodia, who sought refuge in Australia in 1980 after fleeing the Khmer Rouge.
Pung has worked extensively with both primary and secondary school students as an art instructor, independent school teacher, and student mentor. Pung's work has been widely taught in Australian universites, particularly the memoir Unpolished Gem and the edited collected Growing Up Asian in Australia. Among her awards are the Ethel Turner Prize (NSW Premier's Literary Awards), the Western Australian Premier's Award (non-fiction), and the ABIA Award for Newcomer of the Year.
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207476646401968042.jpg5680145141241149513.jpg3005647287746530395.jpgLaurinda Alice Pung , 2014 single work novel
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Alexis Wright
Novelist and Essayist-
Alexis Wright ( 及艾利西斯·莱特 ), activist and award-winning writer, is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Her first novel, Plains of Promise (1997), was nominated for national and international literary awards.
However, it was her second novel, Carpentaria that made Wright a figure in world literature, when she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007. Carpentaria was nominated for and won five national literary awards and has been re-published and translated in the United States and in Europe. Wright’s third novel, The Swan Book (2013), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin.
Alexis has won multiple awards.
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