Books & Poetry
Adelaide Hills author Pip Williams’ The Dictionary of Lost Words has won the 2021 MUD Literary Prize for best debut literary novel by an Australian writer.
Adelaide Festival
Adelaide Writers’ Week has launched its full program for 2021, with an extra 73 Australian and international guests announced as part of the six-day line-up in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.
More than 100 authors and thousands of readers will gather in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden for the 2020 Adelaide Writers’ Week. Avid reader, bookseller and session chair Jo Case tells us the 10 authors she’s most excited to see.
Former Adelaide Writers’ Week director Laura Kroetsch – now an adviser to OzAsia’s JLF Adelaide event – is a strong advocate for arts and ideas festivals, but says we need to be wary of confusing entertainment with political action.
Director Jo Dyer’s first Adelaide Writers’ Week program features free sessions with 119 writers from around the world as well as new events including twilight talks, a Zeitgeist Series and a showcase of slam poetry.
Controversial author and feminist academic Germaine Greer has pulled out of an appearance at Adelaide Writers’ Week where she was to take part in a discussion on ‘Rage, Rape and Revolution’.
Dutch writer Herman Koch – author of the bestselling dark psychological thriller “The Dinner” – will be guest at the first Adelaide Writers’ Week out-of-season event this year.
