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The second Adelaide Festival of Ideas will happen in mid-July. Local participants will include Tim Flannery, Raimond Gaita, Marcia Langton, and Ronald Wilson, and, from overseas, John D. Barrow and Vandana Shiva. The advertised themes are water, population, reconciliation, addiction/intoxication, and cosmology – something for everyone.
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, now in its twenty-first year, is on again. Entries must be lodged by the end of May. You don’t have to be twenty-one to enter – just under thirty-five. Winners are guaranteed publication by Allen & Unwin, and a cheque for $20,000.
Booksellers like Rodney Hall so much that two of them are naming their new bookshop in Eaglemont, Victoria, after his novel The Grisly Wife. John and Kay Thawley’s new shop, to be opened by Hall on April 14, will specialise in Australian literature.
The Last Word is back this year, screening at 5.25 p.m. each Sunday on ABC television. On April 8, James Griffin will interview Tom Keneally, author of Bettany’s Book.
Garry Disher has won the German Crime Fiction Prize for Kickback. Actes Sud, in France, recently published his novel The Sunken Road.
Robert Manne is the first essayist in Black Inc’s Australian Quarterly Essay. On April 6, at the Westin Hotel in Melbourne, Paul Keating and Lowitja O’Donoghue will both speak at the launch of Manne’s In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right. Manne was to have debated the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt on April 19, for Reader’s Feast, but Bolt has interestingly withdrawn, to be replaced by Andrew Markus, author of the recent Race, from Allen & Unwin.
Geoffrey Blainey’s A Short History of the World has won the FAW Literature Award. A.M. Spyrou carried off the FAW Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry.
On Anzac Day, Les Murray will read from his poetry in the grounds of Rozelle Hospital during the New South Wales Writers’ Harvest Festival. His biographer, Peter Alexander, will chair the session.
‘Advances’ was too advanced in the February/March issue. Peter Goldsworthy is not taking part in this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. Arabella Edge, author of The Company and his rumoured interlocutor, will definitely speak during the festival in May.
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