Artists from Boundless reflect on the writers who have had a profound influence on their lives. Vietnamese–American author Viet Thanh Nguyen is perhaps best known for winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with debut novel The Sympathizer. I put it down after a...
Artists from Boundless reflect on the writers who have had a profound influence on their lives. I was in Year 8 when I borrowed Zadie Smith’s White Teeth from Auburn Library. I was learning how to read ‘serious literature’ by working my way through a list I found on...
Artists from Boundless reflect on the writers who have had a profound influence on their lives. When I was a fledgling author, Kylie Kwong was one of the contributors to my anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia. We were all stoked that she’d said yes to reading at...
Artists from Boundless reflect on the writers who have had a profound influence on their lives. High school had just ended forever and it was one of those long, dry south-east Queensland summers that look like a shovel-load of hot ash has been cast across the sky. I...
Writers from the Boundless festival choose the author who has most inspired their writing and reading Nana, crowned with afro, op shop jumpers and sandalled with thick woolly socks the size of sheep, told me it was important to only speak of love when talking with...
