Adelaide Writers' Week

Chair: Michaela Kalowski

In 2022, Joshua Cohen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. His very funny depiction of Benzion Netanyahu – a third rate academic attempting to secure a job in a third rate American university – is part black comedy, part history lesson and part reflection on Jewish-American identity. Cohen talks about what it means to write a ’true story’ and the relationship between fantasy, history and fiction.

Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 12:00pm on the East Stage

Chair: Tony Jones

Ben Macintyre, the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, combines a literary gift for thrilling espionage writing with the rigour of a historian. His latest work, Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, explores the astonishing true story of prisoners inside an ’inescapable’ Nazi prison camp in the Second World War. Macintyre talks to Tony Jones about his oeuvre and what it means to write a nonfiction novel.

Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 10:45am on the East Stage

Chair: Bob Carr

George Orwell said: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." The Public Square is a place we cherish in a democracy, so what is our response to ideas we might find upsetting, confronting, even provocative? Do we only converse with people who share our views? Or are we, as a civil society, able to listen to each other, reflect on the issue at hand and sometimes even change our deeply held beliefs? Joining the Hon Bob Carr for this important conversation are Shalom Auslander, Sarah Ferguson, David Hare and Mark Scott (via video).

Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 9:30am on the East Stage

Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature. 

Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature. 

Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature. 

Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature. 

Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature.

Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature.

Read by Max Gillies and Mem Fox

Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of the brightest names in children’s literature.