
Author explains why she wrote a book with her rapist
Adelaide Writers’ Week guest author Thordis Elva, who has co-written a book with the Australian man who raped her as a teenager, told last night’s Q&A that “forgiveness was never, ever for him”.
Adelaide Writers’ Week guest author Thordis Elva, who has co-written a book with the Australian man who raped her as a teenager, told last night’s Q&A that “forgiveness was never, ever for him”.
More than 80 guest writers will take part in the 2017 Adelaide Writers’ Week beginning on Saturday. Here, director Laura Kroetsch highlights seven sessions she says you shouldn’t miss.
The year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week will have an increased focus on crime and a packed program of non-fiction sessions tackling topics including US politics, conflict in the Middle East and the “feminist manifesto”.
Football isn’t just the dominant spectator sport in South Australia, it’s a community binding agent, salve and mass obsession, writes Patrick Allington in an SA-focussed edition of Griffith Review published this week.
Looking for some engrossing summer reading? Adelaide Writers’ Week director Laura Kroetsch recommends five books by authors who will be in town for the 2017 event.