18.May.2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
Sydney Writers’ Festival is coming again (15-23 May)! I went last year and I am going this weekend. Yay. One thing about the festival is New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards that are always announced at the beginning of the festival. Here are the shortlists this year for The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, which [...]
01.Jun.2009 Sunday Salon: Festivous
Tomorrow is officially the first day of winter for the eastern part of Australia. It’s been getting cold for the past few weeks. Inside my house is so cold my teeth hurt. I hate this house on winter. Sometimes I think it’s colder inside than outside. It’s cold inside when it’s cold outside and it’s [...]
30.May.2009 My (Not-So) Quick Summary of 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival (Part 3 – Last)
Continuing Part 1 and Part 2 of My (Not-So) Quick Summary of 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival… (I’m going to sprinkle more pictures to the first 2 parts now. So check them out again! I know, I should’ve done it before I published them. I’m backwards like that.) International Voices (7pm-8:30pm) Mohammed Hanif, Cees Nooteboom, Chimamanda [...]
29.May.2009 Friday Finds from 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival
What great books did you hear about / discover this past week? I’m a Friday Finds virgin I am. The reason is, I rarely put down newly found books on a physical To-Be-Read list. I usually read a book after I stumble upon it MANY times, not just once. The last encounter is the one [...]
27.May.2009 My (Not-So) Quick Summary of 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival (Part 2)
Continuing Part 1 of My Quick Summary of 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Still on Saturday… Conflict and Childhood (13:30-14:30) We started queueing up for the event, meanwhile listening to The Stuff of the Past (another event who got broadcasted outside the room where it was held at). It talked about Amanda Curtin‘s The Sinkings, which [...]
25.May.2009 My Quick Summary of 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival (Part 1)
I’m going to pretend to talk really fast to summarize the Sydney Writers’ Festival that I went to last weekend. I went Friday night, a whole day Saturday, and a tiny bit of Sunday. Most of the Festival was located at Walsh Bay, Circular Quay. They did have a $1 shuttle bus to go there [...]
22.May.2009 Off to Sydney Writers’ Festival
We’re going to stay in the city for Sydney Writers’ Festival this weekend! Yay! I’m excited! The authors I’m looking forward to see: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (of Purple Hibiscus) Tash Aw (of The Harmony Silk Factory) Monica Ali (of Brick Lane) Mohammed Hanif (of A Case of Exploding Mangoes) I made a pathetic attempt to [...]
17.May.2009 Sunday Salon: Bookish Thingies
I started Purple Hibiscus yesterday, because next week is the Sydney Writers’ Festival weekend which I’m going to, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) will be there. So I’m hoping to finish this book beforehand. There are a few other authors that I’m interested in, like Tash Aw (Malaysia) whose book The Harmony Silk Factory I [...]
