Adelaide Festival Writers Week
Where? Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens, Adelaide, SA
When? 28 February - 5 March Daily, 2010
Australia's most anticipated and influential literary festival is back, celebrating writers from here and beyond, home and away. Adelaide Writers' Week has long been acknowledged for the quality and diversity of its speakers, writers encountered in the shade of tents and plane trees where an amiable late-summer mood prevails. Here readers can mingle with some of the world's most distinguished literary figures in a meeting place between a memorial garden for women and a colonial parade ground, on Kaurna country.
In 2010 Adelaide Writers' Week will build on traditions that have evolved over four decades, bringing together writers and readers in a series of stimulating readings, debates and exchanges. Old friends, writers known and respected, will be there alongside new writers with new writing. The popular mix of panel discussions, 'Meet the Author' sessions, lectures and readings will be included.
This time around you will hear writers from around the world: the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Germany, India and Spain. These meetings will provide opportunities for reflections on our place in the world, taking us beyond Adelaide into the world at large.
Festival Website: Adelaide Writers Week
Programmed Authors
André Alexis (Canada)
Jim Crace (UK)
William Dalrymple (UK)
Richard Dawkins (UK)
Sarah Dunant (UK)
Geoff Dyer (UK)
Anna Enquist (The Netherlands)
Philip Hoare (NZ)
Manju Kapur (India)
Daniel Kehlmann (Germany)
Philip Kerr (UK)
Andrea Levy (UK)
Marina Lewycka (UK)
Wendy Moore (UK)
Adam Nicolson (UK)
Audrey Niffenegger (US)
Emily Perkins (NZ)
Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan)
Cristovâo Tezza (Brazil)
Iliya Troyanov (Bulgaria/Germany)
Salley Vickers (UK)
Sarah Waters (UK)
Irvine Welsh (Scotland)
Jude Aquilina
Fabienne Bayet-Charlton
Diane Bell
Michael Cathcart
Brian Castro
John Clanchy
Steven Conte
Michelle de Kretser
Robert Dessaix
Nicholas Drayson
Andrew Faulkner
Kathryn Fox
Andrea Goldsmith
Robert Gray
Kevin Hart
David Hill
Lolo Houbein
Chloe Hooper
Antoni Jach
Jill Jones
Philip Jones
Mireille Juchau
Tom Keneally
Cate Kennedy
Malcolm Knox
Carol Lefevre
Barry Maitland
Michael McGirr
Michael Meehan
Alice Pung
Kel Robertson
Craig Sherborne
Peter Temple
Ian Townsend
Sam Wagan Watson
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Alexis Wright
Charlotte Wood
Markus Zusak
PROGRAM GUIDE
The 2010 Writers' Week Program Guide will be available early February.
To reserve your copy please send your name and address together with a cheque or money order for A$8.00 (made payable to the Adelaide Festival Corporation) to:
Writers' Week Program
PO Box 8221 Station Arcade
Adelaide SA 5000 Australia
