Winner of the recently-announced NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, Mark Henshaw, will take part in the Batemans Bay Writers Festival this June long weekend.
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Mr Henshaw, who won the award for his novel The Snow Kimono, will give talks at the Coachhouse Marina Resort on Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7.
The Premier’s award judges called The Snow Kimono “an exquisite work of art designed to deceive” and “both a gripping and tragic thriller and a highly literary conversation” between a retired French police inspector and a Japanese law professor who meet in Paris and share memories of desire, ambition and loss.
The Snow Kimono was the greatly-anticipated follow up to Mr Henshaw’s first novel, Out of the Line of Fire.
Coincidentally, the Sydney Morning Herald’s literary editor Susan Wyndham, who will also appear at the festival, was a judge on the panel that gave Mr Henshaw another award, the Christina Stead Prize, for The Snow Kimono.
Ms Wyndham described The Snow Kimono as an “intelligent, beautiful and haunting novel”.
At the festival Ms Wyndham will talk about her work as a literary editor and her books, including Charlie Teo: Life In His Hands; The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a Pianist, based on the work of the successful and sometimes controversial neurosurgeon.
Festival director Marion Roubos-Bennett said the festival would please anyone who delighted in a good book and enjoyed being entertained.
She said lovers of crime and mystery would be well catered for, with a presentation by one of Australia’s foremost crime writers, and another award-winner, Gabrielle Lord.
Perinatal psychiatrist Anne Buist will discuss her psychological thriller Medea’s Curse.
Other award-winners attending include poet Hazel Hall, playwright Julie Janson, James Bradley who will speak about his HSC-listed book Wrack, and the internationally acclaimed Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project.
Music writer Jeff Apter will return to the festival to engage author Michael Browning - the man who put AC/DC on the world stage - in an inspiring and lively conversation.
In a later session, Mr Apter will share his knowledge of the Bee Gees and the sadness that accompanied their successful musical careers.
Visit www.batemansbaywritersfestival.com or phone 0417 267 771.
