Friday, 19 August 2011
UWA Publishing will have ten writers in the Melbourne Writers Festival from 25 August to 4 September 2011.
This year's festival will feature international sensation Jon-Jon Goulian, author of
The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt: A Memoir of Androgyny
.
In his hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Jon-Jon Goulian chronicles his journey from a hyperneurotic youth who was forever on the verge of ‘caving in beneath the pressures of modern life', into a ‘cross-dressing literary sensation' (The New York Times);
The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
is about coming to terms with what it means to be truly yourself.
Other authors appearing in the festival include this year's winner of the Miles Franklin award, Kim Scott (
Mamang
and
Noongar Mambara Bakitj
), Hanifa Deen (
Ali Abdul v The King
and
The Jihad Seminar
), Katie Holmes (
Between the Leaves
), Barry Hill and John Wolseley (
Lines for Birds
), Wade Davis (
The Wayfinders
), Raimond Gaita (
Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics
), Emily Ballou (
The Darwin Poems
), and Ewan Morrison (
The Last Book You Read and other stories
).
Wade Davis (
The Wayfinders
) and Raimond Gaita (
Gaza
) are also guests of the 2011 Brisbane Writers Festival.
For more details on festival sessions, head to the
Melbourne Writers Festival website
or the
Brisbane Writers Festival website
.
Media references
Britt Ingerson
(UWA Publishing) 61 8 6488 6804 / 0406 440 453
Janine MacDonald
(UWA Public Affairs) 61 8 6488 5563 / 0432 637 716
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