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First Three Writers Announced As Adelaide Writers’ Week Special Event Series Launches

Following the success of inaugural out-of-season events in 2014 including conversations with Annabel Crabbe and Julia Gillard the first three writers for 2015 have been confirmed.

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Following the success of inaugural out-of-season events in 2014 including conversations with Annabel Crabbe and Julia Gillard the first three writers for 2015 have been confirmed.

Renowned brain scientist and bestselling author Norman Doidge, Costa Book of The Year Award and Samuel Johnston Prize winner Helen Macdonald and David Mitchell author of the smash hit Cloud Atlas will travel to Adelaide in late May for the out-of-season Writers’ Week series.

Adelaide Writers’ Week Director, Laura Kroetsch said, “The 2015 series will begin with Helen Macdonald, author of the prize-winning memoir H is for Hawk. It’s an extraordinary book and because I have the pleasure of chairing the session I am looking forward to talking to her about the loss of her father, her hawk Hazel and the fabulously arcane language of falconry.

“Next up is David Mitchell author of the best-selling novels Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green and most recently The Bone Clocks. I’ve seen David in conversation before and he is as fascinating in person as he is on the page. This is a must see for those who enjoy literary fiction.

“We are thrilled to be hosting the best-selling psychiatrist and writer Norman Doidge for his very first trip to Adelaide. Like his books, The Brain that Changes Itself and The Brain’s Way of Healing, Doidge is a blockbuster and these tickets will go quick!”

The special event series was created to allow local audiences the opportunity hear writers outside the traditional Adelaide Writers’ Week festival season.

Each session will last an hour and will be followed by a book signing. With more special events planned for later in the year these first three events are available for a combed ticket price of $51.

Tickets for the conversations will be on sale at adelaidefestival.com.au from Friday April 17.

Booking Details:
Tickets from $20 OR all three sessions for $51
adelaidefestival.com.au or BASS 131 246

Special Event Series:
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
In conversation with Laura Kroetsch
Elder Hall – Sunday May 17, 4.00pm

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
In conversation with Stephanie Hester
Elder Hall – Sunday May 18, 6.30pm

The Brain’s way of Healing
Norman Doidge
In conversation with Roy Eccleston
Adelaide Town Hall – Monday May 25, 6.30pm

Norman Doidge, MD, is the author of the best-selling book, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Dr Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Centre for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry. He is a native of Toronto. His most recent book is The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity.

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian and affiliate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Falcon and Shaler’s Fish.

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and The Bone Clocks. He has won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, and been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

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