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Jana Wendt: The Stories Around Us
Supported by the Hyatt Hotel Canberra.
Fri
24
Fri 24 Oct 11:00 AM
Hyatt Hotel Canberra
Wheelchair
General Admission
120 Mins
October
Can fiction reveal deeper truths than journalism ever could? Come hear Jana Wendt – journalist, presenter, writer, and living legend of Australian media – as she ponders the question. Jana drew in huge audiences to her programs across public and commercial television over a three-decade career. Now she turns her prodigious writing skills and inquisitive reporter’s eye to fiction, with the whimsical, haunting and witty collection, The Far Side of the Moon and Other Stories. Hear how she made the leap from investigative journalism to explore deeper truths, deploying the most important skill for any writer: coaxing out the story. In conversation over a wonderful three-tiered High Tea with Canberra's own Alex Sloan.
Jana Wendt is a journalist and writer. Her feature writing has appeared in a broad range of publications and she has worked for every Australian television network as a senior reporter and presenter, and as a contributing correspondent for the American CBS Network’s 60 Minutes. Wendt has interviewed many key newsmakers, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Benazir Bhutto, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yasser Arafat. In the arts, her subjects have included pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim; opera star Cecilia Bartoli; writer Norman Mailer and jazz diva Cleo Laine. Jana Wendt has published two books of non-fiction. The Far Side of the Moon is her first book of fiction.
Jana Wendt is a journalist and writer. Her feature writing has appeared in a broad range of publications and she has worked for every Australian television network as a senior reporter and presenter, and as a contributing correspondent for the American CBS Network’s 60 Minutes. Wendt has interviewed many key newsmakers, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Benazir Bhutto, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yasser Arafat. In the arts, her subjects have included pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim; opera star Cecilia Bartoli; writer Norman Mailer and jazz diva Cleo Laine. Jana Wendt has published two books of non-fiction. The Far Side of the Moon is her first book of fiction.
