China Australia Literary Forum 2017

The fourth China Australia Literature Forum (CALF 4) took place in Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, over five days, 7-11 May, 2017. The literary event was a collaboration between the China Writers Association, the Guangdong Provincial Writers Association and the Writing & Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.

The forum brought together literary critics, editors, reporters, publishers, translators, interpreters, visual artists, critics and writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, short-story writers and songwriters.

Over five days the event included panels, an event dinner, a reading evening at Jinan University and a literary tour of Guangzhou. The panels had the following titles:

‘Novel Panel: Literature, Mobility and Place’ – Alexis Wright, Gail Jones, A Lai, Wei Wei, Wang Shiyue (moderator: Nicholas Jose)
‘Publishing Panel: The Prospect of Publishing and the Reason for Publishing’ – Ivor Indyk, Liu Fang, Zhu Yanling (moderator: Hu Wenjian)
‘Translation Panel: Literature and Translation’ – Jing Han and Li Yao (moderator: Peter Hutchings)
‘Critics Panel: The Value of Criticism’ – Anthony Uhlmann, Ben Denham, Xie Youshun and Li Chaoquan (moderator: Yan Jingming)
‘Poetry Panel: Poem and Society’ – Kate Fagan, David Musgrave, Yang Ke, Zheng Xiaoqiong (moderator: Xi Chuan)

Here Alexis Wright talks at CALF about Indigenous understandings of law and country