Sydney Writers' Festival 2011

Sydney Writers’ Festival 2011 (16 - 22 May) will welcome some of the most exciting and promising writers of this era...

Sydney Writers’ Festival 2011, the 14th one, will welcome some of the most exciting and promising writers of this era. The 2011 Festival promises to be as wide ranging, profound and enjoyable as ever, with its wealth of riches covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, scriptwriting, film, new media and much more.

"The 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival has announced one of it's strongest programs yet! This years theme is "power"

This year’s stellar international line-up for the Sydney Writers Festival includes:

• Ingrid Betancourt, released only three years ago from six years’ captivity by the FARC in Colombia
• Superstar chef Anthony Bourdain, of Kitchen Confidential fame
• International crime fiction bestseller Michael Connelly
• Michael Cunningham, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours
• Sierre Leone’s Aminatta Forna, winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Africa region) for The Memory of Love
• AA Gill, controversial UK travel, food and TV critic
• Philosopher and now author of the secular bible, The Good Book, AC Grayling
• 2010 Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question
• The internationally acclaimed literary fiction author David Mitchell 

Sydney Writers’ Festival's main precinct is at Walsh Bay using the Sydney Dance Company & Sydney Theatre at Pier 2/3, all conveniently located right next to your Sydney Waterfront Hotel, the Sebel Pier One!

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