Dedication : Margo Lanagan
Adelaide Writers' Week - Saturday, March 3 2012
Australia
East Stage, 9.30am
Margo Lanagan is one of Australia’s most gifted writers. Few have managed to so effortlessly unite realism and fantasy, adult literary and young adult fiction. Hers is a dark wit coupled with a near hypnotic ability to lead her readers into unusual and often uncomfortable places. She is a maker of extraordinary worlds and her fiction is fearless, uneasy, and often incredible.
Her body of work is extensive: fifteen novels, fifty short stories, and four highly acclaimed short story collections, White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes and Yellowcake. She is the winner of multiple Aurealis, Ditmar and World Fantasy awards, as well as the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Sturgeon, Stoker, Tiptree, International Horror Guild, Locus, Shirley Jackson, Children’s Book Council, Hugo, Nebula, Commonwealth Writers Prize, alongside the Queensland and New South Wales’ Premier’s Awards. It is a list that aptly describes the diversity of her readership.
Lanagan’s recent novel, the brutal and beautiful fairytale retold, Tender Morsels, was a Michael L Printz Honor Book, and has garnered the kind of international acclaim few Australian authors enjoy . This year, Lanagan will publish Sea Hearts, an astonishing tale of love, desire and revenge.
It is a great honour to dedicate Adelaide Writers’ Week 2012 to Margo Lanagan, a writer of extraordinary intellect and imagination. She takes her place among fellow dedicatees Judith Wright, AD Hope, Jessica Anderson, Colin Theile and Thomas Shapcott.
- Sean Williams
Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week Committee
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WHERE
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
WHEN
Sat 3 Mar 9.30am - 10.30am
FREE
PLANNER
Wheelchair access
MAP
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
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credits
Special Thanks:
Canada Council for the Arts
Copyright Agency Limited, Embassy of Italy
Embassy of Spain, Goethe-Institut,
Independent Arts Foundation, Instituto Cervantes Sydney, New Zealand Book Council, University of South Australia and USA Consulate
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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