{"id":20511,"date":"2017-04-19T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=20511"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T07:03:00","slug":"australian-writers-week-in-china-geraldine-brooks","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?tribe_events=australian-writers-week-in-china-geraldine-brooks","title":{"rendered":"Australian Writers Week in China – Geraldine Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Conversation With Pulitzer-Prize Winning Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geraldine Brooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Geraldine Brooks<\/b> grew up in Sydney, obtained her BA from the University of Sydney and worked as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald<\/i>.\u00a0After winning a scholarship to complete a masters in journalism at Columbia University, she worked for a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal<\/i> in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.<\/p>\n

After two works of non-fiction, she turned to historical fiction \u2013 to dazzling success. Covering time periods from 1666 England to the American Civil War, and themes as diverse as book conservation and slavery, her richly layered, deeply researched novels have won readers and accolades across the globe, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for March<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Two of Brooks\u2019 novels, Caleb\u2019s Crossing<\/i> and People of the Book<\/i>, were both New York Times best sellers.\u00a0 Year of Wonders<\/i> is an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages, including in Chinese.<\/p>\n

In 2010 she received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2016 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

Brooks lives with her family and various animals by an old mill pond on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts and spends as much time as possible in Australia.<\/p>\n

Date & Time: 6PM, Sunday May 14
\n<\/b>Address: The Bookworm, 2-7 Yujie East Road (near Renmin South Road)
\nCost: RMB 50 (includes a Drink)
\nRegister: Contact the venue<\/b><\/p>\n

Geraldine Brooks’ visit is part of Australian Writers Week in China\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Geraldine Brooks will visit Chengdu on 14 May as part of Australian Writers\u2019 Week 2017. Brooks will give her \u201cAt Home in the World\u201d lecture at Fangsuo at 3PM, followed by discussion of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel \u201cMarch\u201d at Bookworm at 6PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[87,89],"class_list":["post-20511","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-member-events","tribe_events_cat-partner-events","cat_member-events","cat_partner-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20511"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftribe_events_cat&post=20511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}