Adelaide Writers' Week

Eliza Clark, Patrick deWitt and Jonathan Lethem with Molly Murn | Three of life’s certainties are brought into question by Eliza Clark, Patrick deWitt and Jonathan Lethem in a conversation hosted by Molly Murn.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 3:45pm

With Roanna Gonsalves | In 2015, Perumal Murugan said: “Perumal Murugan the writer is dead. As he is not god, he is not going to resurrect himself. He also has no faith in rebirth. An ordinary teacher, he will live as P. Murugan. Leave him alone.” Join Murugan and chair Roanna Gonsalves to find out why he changed his mind.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 2:30pm

With Ruth Mackenzie | Writing about the impoverished village of his childhood and the ramifications of disenfranchisement on his family, Édouard Louis is routinely described as France’s literary sensation. In conversation with Ruth Mackenzie.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 2:30pm

With Debbie Whitmont | Drawing on a decade spent as the director of the International Crisis Group’s Arab-Israeli Project, Nathan Thrall’s new book is an extraordinary micro-history that illuminates the reality of daily life in Palestine. He speaks with Debbie Whitmont.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 2:30pm

With John Zubrzycki | Set in a north Indian village, Nilanjana S. Roy’s new novel, Black River, takes the form of a police procedural to ask larger questions about the ‘new India’. Roy explores the novel’s themes with John Zubrzycki.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 1:15pm

With Bob Carr | The modern view is that we can’t judge the actions of others in extremis, so what can we learn from Marshal Petain, Heinrich Himmler’s masseuse or the Mata Hari of the Orient? Bob Carr discusses collaboration with writer Ian Buruma (live stream) and historian Julian Jackson.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 1:15pm

With Chris Taylor | William McInnes may be known to television audiences for his role in SeaChange, but his books have also won him legions of fans. He tells Chris Taylor about his latest work – a celebration of our very particular way with words.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 1:15pm

With Roanna Gonsalves | Poet, novelist and activist Meena Kandasamy has been described as a “one-woman agit prop literary-political movement”. She discusses the politics of writing with Roanna Gonsalves.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 12:00pm

With Beejay Silcox | Richard Ford says: “I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere. I read only to learn something and to be delighted by it.” Ford explains the pleasure of writing and reading short stories to Beejay Silcox.

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 12:00pm

With Susan Johnson | Marriage, according to Devorah Baum, is a "formal relation that could arguably lay claim to being the world’s most enduring and universal”. Join us to explore this perplexing institution, which continues to shape and carry our human story, with Baum (via live stream) and chair Susan Johnson. 

Event details: Mon 04 Mar, 12:00pm