We are excited to announce that the distinguished Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau will be travelling to Sydney in February to collaborate with Alexis Wright, one of our Other Worlds project members.
Chamoiseau has been an important source of inspiration for Wright for many years and their collaboration offers an opportunity to think about the ways in which the worlds of Caribbean and indigenous Australian writing resonate and intersect with each other. They will be speaking publically together at a keynote roundtable of the conference Caribbean Meridians at Western Sydney University (February 7-9, 2019) as well as a public reading and discussion in the Sydney CBD (details TBA).
To register your interest in attending these sessions, please email aacsconf2019(at)gmail.com
For further details about Caribbean Meridians, including the call for papers please visit: http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/caribbean-meridians/
Proposals for presentations at the conference are due September 30.
Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of Prix Goncourt winning novel Texaco, as well as Solibo Magnificent, Creole Folktales and Slave Old Man, among other many other literary and autobiographical works. He is also an intellectual leader in the Caribbean and Francophone world. He is especially well-known for his work with the Creolité movement, whose Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant, is considered a landmark in the intellectual history of the Caribbean. His latest book, Migrant Brothers: A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity, is an essay on the contemporary global refugee crisis that calls for a ‘global politics of hospitality’. He lives in Martinique.
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the author of the novels The Swan Book winner of the ASAL Gold Medal, and Carpentaria, which won five national literary awards in 2007, including the Miles Franklin Award. Her first novel Plains of Promise was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Her other books are Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in Tennant Creek, the short story collection Le Pacte de Serpent, Take Power, a collection of essays and stories celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, and Tracker, stories of the Aboriginal visionary leader Tracker Tilmouth (which won the 2018 Stella Award). She has written widely on Indigenous rights, and organised two successful Indigenous Constitutional Conventions, ‘Today We Talk About Tomorrow’ (1993), and the Kalkaringi Convention (1998).