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on 5/13/2012
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Geoffrey Rush, in his speech as Australian of the Year, put out a call to the writers of Australia,
saying that he wanted to see the ‘stories of people wanting to come here at great peril to their lives,
with such extraordinary bravery’, adding that: ‘we’re not finding that human scale in the story and
I think it’d be good if we did that because I think people would discuss the arguments
with less overly emotive responses to primal knee-jerk reactions.’
Alien Shores is a cross Indian-Australian anthology of renowned Australian and Indian authors and a powerful response to Geoffrey Rush’s call.
To be launched at The Hughenden with special guest The Indian Consul General and authors Linda Jaivlin, Rosie Scott, Susanne Gervay, Sharon Rundle, Meenakshi Bharat, Michelle Cahill, Andrew Kwong … hosted by Roanna Gonsalvez
Published by Brass Monkey Books Australia, imprint of UQP.
Editors: Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle (Eds)
Publish Date: May 2012
ISBN-13:9780980863932; ISBN-10:0980863937
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Australian author Susanne Gervay (visit her website and blog) has had a very busy year this year and social justice has been high on her agenda. She is one of the contributors to Fear Factor: Terror Incognito, an anthology of short stories featuring ten Australian and ten Indian writers, edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle (Macmillan Australia/ Picador India, 2010). She has been writing about her travels to India and Kiribati, a “Pacific atoll nation drowning under climate change”. She has just launched Always Jack, the third book about Jack, following on from her wonderful I Am Jack and Super Jack. Most recently, Susanne was in South Korea for the Nambook-010 Fesival, the 5th Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival. She was there because she was taking part in Peace Story, a very special project. We are very grateful to Susanne for telling us all about it here. For those of us who couldn’t be there in person, Susanne’s description and photographs are definitely the next best thing!
In these troubled times with North Korea’s military attack on South Korea, the international publication of Peace Story is poignant and important. Twenty-two children’s authors and twenty-two illustrators from twenty-two countries engaged in an international cooperative to create a unique anthology, Peace Story, for young people. Respected academic author on Irish children’s literature Valerie Coghlan and Irish Laureate for children’s literature Siobhán Parkinson were the co-editors of Peace Story.
‘Peace Story’ was part of the Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival, South Korea which was first held in 2005 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. It is a six-week bi-annual festival of children’s books, the environment and peace, featuring outstanding exhibitions of children’s books and illustrations from all over the world. Much loved Korean illustrator Kang Woo-hyon, President of the Nambook-010 International Committee headed the ‘Peace Story’ project with the support of the Nami Island Minn family who published and translated some of the stories, and hosted the authors and illustrators on Nami Island. It was supported by National YMCA Korea, UNICEF and UNESCO Korea, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, and Nami Island the official sponsor of the IBBY Hans Christian Anderson Awards.
My Australian story ‘To East Timor with Love Australia’, illustrated by the award-winning Frané Lessac, opens the anthology Peace Story. Frané Lessac’s vibrant colours of bright pink bougainvillea and yel
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on 9/25/2010
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Fear Factor Terror Incognito. Stories from India and Australia, published by Picador – unock the personal in terrorism, open discussion as a way towards peace.
The 6th Annual World Matters 2010 Writers – Disturbing the Peace
Dates: October 27 & 30-31
Venue: Montsalvat, Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham
An International and Regional Programme featuring: Fear Factor Terror Incognito Indo-Australian Authors’ Anthology Panel, chaired by Sharon Rundle:-
-with excerpts of short stories from a unique Indo–Australian collaboration, which includes David Malouf, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Nagarkar and Yasmine Gooneratne;
-followed by an in-depth discussion, by authors Susanne Gervay, Devika Brendon, Jeremy Fisher and author and Professor of Literature at Delhi University, Meenakshi Bharat.
- Titi Amaral and Jude Conway’s audio visual narrative of East Timor Women’s brave stories of resistance and survival from the anthology Step by Step, this is Supported by East Timor Women Australia and an Exhibition and sales of East Timor textiles in the Resident Artist’s Gallery
- Ouyang Yu, The English Class, Roger Averill, Keeping Faith
- Jane Carswell Under the Huang Jia Tree: Two Journeys in China through story and memoir
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on 3/23/2010
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Nearly 150 people partied at The Hughenden for this grand celebration of 3 years of passion, committment and idealism to bring FEAR FACTOR: TERROR INCOGNITO to Australia at last.
This important anthology driven by Indian Professor Meenakshi Bharat and Australian academic Sharon Rundle, has connected Australia and the world through the commonality of us all when faced with terrorism. They sought to open discourse on terrorism as a pathway to peace.
Highlights:-
Melina Marchetta’s speech launching Fear Factor: Terror Incognito
David Malouf generously signing and relating to fans
Andrew Kwong’s story of escaping as a boy from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Rosie Scott’s passion for social justice
Support from so many divergent groups
-including writing groups, teachers, authors, the media – from ABC radio to 2UE
Sharon Rundle summarised the feelings - ‘It was a magical event’
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on 3/16/2010
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Where?: UTS Art Gallery, Sydney
What? An evening in discussion about the impact of terror on our lives
How? With a panel of 5 authors and 2 editors from the anthology ‘Fear Factor: Terror Incognito’
Who?
Panel Chair: Devleena Ghosh, Director of Transforming Cultures, Associate Professor Social Inquiry Program UTS
Editors: Professor Meenaskshi Bharat University of Delhi; Sharon Rundle, Lecturer UTS
Authors: Andrew Kwong, Susanne Gervay, Rosie Scott, Sujata Sankranti, Meenakshi Bharat
Audience: Academics, authors, students, general public.
Special guests: Authors Mabel Lee renowned translator of Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Gao Xingjian’s ‘Soul Mountain’
Authors: Hazel Edwards and Moya Simons
Storytellers: Sue Alveraz
Outcome?: Exciting discussion opening a wide range of views and emotions on terrorism from refugees by Rosie Scott, escape from China by Andrew Kwong, young people drawn into terrorism by Sujata Sankranti and recognition of the difficult and important journey by Australian editor Sharon Rundle and Indian editor Meenakshi Bharat to create an anthology that opens vital discourse on terrorism.
The NSW History Festival was a huge success with major authors speaking such as award winninbg author James Bradley and biographer Jacqueline Kent – whose biographies on Hephzibah Menuhin and Julia Guillard are highly acclaimed.
Hundreds of people came and enjoyed the beautiful gardens of the NSW Writers Centre in Rozelle, Sydney.
A highlight was the international flavour brought by Professor at the Univerity of Delhi, Meenaskhi Bharat an author, academic and leading voice in Indian literature. Meenakshi together with Sharon Rundle a writer and academic from UTS, co edited the anthology ‘Fear Factor: Terror Incognito’ published by Picador India and Picador Australia. An anthology opening discourse on terrorism with stories by 10 Inidan authors and 10 Australian authors including Sir Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally … and even me.
Huge Congratulations to the NSW Writers Centre for another fantastic festival.
If you want to write historical novels, non fiction or just hear some inspiring authors, the History Festival is warm, intimate and you wander in the gardens and to speak to the authors.
I’ll be there, so say hello to me. I’ve written historical novels too like ‘Shadows of Olive Tress’ about the second rise of feminism in th 1970’s – it’s really about love, family, hope and dreams. History is a great vehicle for the powerful emotions and movements of life. I’m not speaking but speak to me as I’m on the Management Committee of the New South Wales Writers Centre.
Some of the great authors are:
Meenakshi Bharat whose written about the history of Bollywood, as well as Sir Salman Rushie – that’s a contradiction.
Gabrielle Carey who started her career writing ‘Puberty Blues’ and has gone on to writing acclaimed books
Jascquie Kent one of Australia’s best biographers
Camilla Nelson award winning Crime Writer
and many others.
at NSW Writers Centre Ph: 02 9555 9757
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Cost is $50 for members; $75 non members
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Susanne Gervay,
on 11/23/2009
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Fear Factor: Terror Incognito ed
Bharat, Meenakshi and Rundle, Sharon
Just released in India and to eb released in UK and Australia
Fear Factor: Terror Incognito is a collection of 20 unforgettable stories by well-known and emerging authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent including David Malouf, Salman Rushdie, Neelum Saran Gour, Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Jeremy Fisher, Susanne Gervay, Tabish Khair, Denise Leith, Andrew Y M Kwong, Devika Brendon, Gulzar, Meera Kant, Guy Scotton, Sujata Sankranti, Kiran Nargarkar, Temsula Ao, Jaspreet Singh, Janhavi Acharekar and Meenakshi Bharat; with a foreword by Yasmine Gooneratne.
A unique collaboration between Australia and India, the stories represent these writers protests against the phenomenon of modern terror. They do not offer solutions. Instead, they lead readers along the hidden paths of an unfamiliar psychology to make their own discoveries.
A joint publication with Picador UK and Picador India, Fear Factor: Terror Incognito is essential reading for anyone interested the global phenomenon of terror.
Author Information
Meenakshi Bharat is a translator, reviewer and critic. Her special interests include children’s literature, women’s fiction and English studies – areas which she has researched extensively. Currently, she is engaged in translating a volume of Hindi short stories. She is also getting a volume of short fiction ready for publication. She teaches at the University of Delhi. Sharon Rundle is a writer, editor and lecturer. Her stories, essays and articles have appeared in various publications and have been broadcast on radio, in Australia and internationally, since 1992.
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Picador Australia has The Australian edition on their website with a March release.
http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/display_title.asp?ISBN=9780330426213&am