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Sydney Writers' Festival

April

Lauren Groff outside her bookshop, The Lynx, in Gainesville, Florida.

This writer packs a lot into her weekends and still finds time to work

Lauren Groff is an athlete, a mother, a best-selling writer and she’s taking on the censors in her home state of Florida. She describes her typical Saturday and Sunday.

  • Lauren Sams

The man who cracked Japan’s crime gangs is back for a sequel

Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice exposed Japan’s yakuza. Now he’s out of police protection and releasing a new book.

  • Michael Smith

June 2020

Leigh Carmichael - creative director of Dark Mofo.

The future of Australia's arts festivals

With this year's cultural calendar wiped, the country's biggest arts festivals are looking to 2021. But can they return in their current forms, if at all?

  • Lauren Vadnjal

May 2019

Meg Wolitzer's latest novel has caught the eye of Australian actress Nicole Kidman.

'The Wife' author Meg Wolitzer on MeToo, the Oscars and Tim Tams

Meg Wolitzer's novel 'The Wife' was turned into a movie that nearly won Glenn Close an academy award and now she will be working with Nicole Kidman.

  • Lisa Murray
Fatima Bhutto is delivering the closing address at the Sydney Writers Festival.

Fatima Bhutto on Sri Lanka, radical Islam, and Frank Ocean

The estranged daughter of Pakistan's most powerful political family says her country's experience with terrorism has revealed to her its political nature.

  • Bo Seo

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