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A NIGHT OF STORIES: Growing Up Asian in Australia |
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Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it like to grow up Asian in Australia?
Join editor, Alice Pung and local contributors Tom Cho, Tony Ayres and Shalini Akhil as they discuss this honest, reflective and irreverent collection with Triple J's John Safran.
Alice Pung is a writer and lawyer. Her best-selling memoir Unpolished Gem won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year award and was short-listed for a number of awards including both the NSW and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
Tom Cho is a writer whose work has been published widely, most recently in HEAT and the Best Australian Stories series.
Tony Ayres wrote and directed the feature film The Home Song Stories (2007) and directed Walking on Water (2002).
Shalini Akhil is a writer who has dabbled in stand-up comedy. She has had work published in Meanjin, Girls Night In 4, the Sleepers Almanac and the Age. Her first novel is The Bollywood Beauty.
This event is presented in collaboration with Asialink, Readings Books, Music & Film and Black Inc.
WHEN: Tuesday 3 June 2008
TIME: 6:30 pm start
WHERE: Carrillo Gantner Basement Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
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