TV Presenter Stan Grant and Professor Bill Gammage.
The Jugiong Writers Festival has announced the attendance of two prominent authors at their event, to be held 18th and 19th of March next year. Stan Grant, author of ‘Talking To My Country’ and ‘The Tears of Strangers,’ will give a talk with Professor Bill Gammage, author and coauthor of ‘The Story of Gallipoli,’ ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia’ and ‘The Broken Years.’ A Wiradjuri man from Griffith, Stan studied at the University of NSW and the Australian National University. He spent his early career working in Australia, for the Macquarie Radio Network, as well as for Seven and ABC, before moving onto CNN International in Hong Kong and Beijing. The Logie Award winner then took a position with SBS, before once again joining CNN. He returned to Australia in 2014, working with Sky News and NITV, and from 2017 will join the ABC, as editor of indigenous affairs. His first book, ‘The Tears of Strangers,’ discusses political and social changes of Indigenous Australians over 40 years. ‘Talking To My Country,’ his second work, followed abuse of Adam Goodes, and how that episode made Australia confront the darkest elements of its past and present. Professor Bill Gammage is an Australian academic historian, and Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Born in Orange, and raised in Wagga, Bill’s first book ‘The Broken Years,’ is perhaps his best known work, having been first published in 1974, and reprinted five times since. The festival will involve workshops and speakers for readers and aspiring authors alike.
