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Salvaging the Earth?
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Sun 26 Oct 11:00 AM
Cinema | Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre | Australian National University
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Omar El Akkad is joining the festival after recently releasing his searing memoir One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. But he first burst onto the literary scene with his bestseller American War, set during a climate change instigated Second U.S. Civil War in the year 2074. Jennifer Mills, in Salvage, explores sisters (one suspended in outer space and another down on the ravaged earth) after ecological collapse. And Madeleine Watts, in Elegy, Southwest follows a young couple driving along the course of the Colorado River as it threatens to run dry. Through speculative fiction, each author brings harrowing yet gentle perspectives on living, and loving, alongside planetary environmental breakdown. Together, and moderated by The Garret's Astrid Edwards, they'll discuss what it will take to save the best parts of our humanity and how fiction helps us find it.
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His new nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is an instant New York Times bestseller.
Jennifer Mills is an author, editor and critic based in Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide). Known for imaginative climate fiction and bold experimentation, her books include The Airways and Dyschronia, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Mills is a widely published essayist, an advocate for the rights of writers and artists, an MEAA freelance delegate, Deputy Chair of the Australian Society of Authors, and a current SA Literary Fellow. Her latest novel is Salvage.
Madeleine Watts is the author of the novels Elegy, Southwest and The Inland Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Believer, The Baffler, and HEAT, among others. Originally from Sydney, and after a decade in New York, she currently lives in Berlin.
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Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His new nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is an instant New York Times bestseller.
Jennifer Mills is an author, editor and critic based in Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide). Known for imaginative climate fiction and bold experimentation, her books include The Airways and Dyschronia, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Mills is a widely published essayist, an advocate for the rights of writers and artists, an MEAA freelance delegate, Deputy Chair of the Australian Society of Authors, and a current SA Literary Fellow. Her latest novel is Salvage.
Madeleine Watts is the author of the novels Elegy, Southwest and The Inland Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Believer, The Baffler, and HEAT, among others. Originally from Sydney, and after a decade in New York, she currently lives in Berlin.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.