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current location: Pondicherry, India

January 23, 2009

I moved to Pondicherry just before New Year, to spend a couple of months living and writing here. Officially the town is now called Puducherry and usually it’s “Pondy”.


Australian Studies conference Sri Lanka Dec 2- 5

November 23, 2008

I will be a guest at this conference in Sri Lanka for the Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA) from December 2 – 5. I’ll be giving a reading there as well as attending other papers and readings.

See:   http://www.asianaustralianstudies.org/ASAA_2008_conf-flyer.pdf


Film Bazaar, Goa, India

November 23, 2008

I will be attending the Goa Film Bazaar from November 26-29.

I will be pitching my films Neem Dreams and With The Tiger.

Will be catching up with Binger people and Indian film people.

 


Readings at Ledig House

September 28, 2008

I’ve been at Ledig House for a week, am here til the end of October. This evening there’ll be public Readings at the Visitors Centre, where I’ll be reading along with the current other residents. To find out more, click on ‘ledig house’ on this link:

http://www.artomi.org/

click also on ‘sculpture park’ to see the surroundings


“Amsterdam, one winter” in Australian Author

September 14, 2008

My piece about being at Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam has come out in the August edition of Australian Author magazine, page 34.


Chateau de Lavigny

September 14, 2008

http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/

My time at this wonderful, beautiful, peaceful place ends on September 15. I have been living here with four other writers:

  • Jean-Paul Barbe, France
  • James Canon, Columbia
  • Hilde Keteleer, Belgium
  • Mariko Nagai, Japan

goodbye Rome hello Nimes

August 5, 2008

I left Rome and the BR Whiting Library on July 31 after 6 wonderful months based there. Now i am spending a few weeks in Nimes in the south of France staying with an old friend, Sue Howe and her partner Daniel de Rudder. After this it will be Chateau de Lavigny…


With The Tiger has been published

June 13, 2008

I received my first copy of my new novel With The Tiger just published by HarperCollins India.
What a beautiful cover!

Here’s the page at the HarperCollins India site:

http://www.harpercollins.co.in


Ljubljana, April 9

June 13, 2008

On Tuesday April 9 I took a seminar for students in the course on Australian Literature, at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of English , (3rd year undergraduates) . The course is taught by Professor Igor Maver.
Another great group!


Australian Women’s Writing at Budapest, April 2

June 13, 2008

Then on April 2nd i spoke with another exceptional group of students in the course on Australian Women’s Writing co-ordinated by Dr Ceclia Gall at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.


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