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Fatima Bhutto has titled her Opening Address Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She'll talk about everything from natural disasters to man-made political catastrophes in her homeland, Pakistan. The address will set the tone for a Sydney Writers' Festival festival programme that darts through several political systems, examines the leaders that administrate them, and juggles peace, power and religion along the way.
James Gleick, Anthony Bourdain, Michael Cunningham and Ingrid Betancourt will talk terrorism, while Richard Fidler, Ian Lowe and Curt Stager get stuck into climate change. Gail Dines, Kate Holden and Catherine Lumby give pornography a war-like workout, AA Gill and Bruce Guthrie do battle with the death of print media, and AC Grayling will go up against religion. Again.
The festival is ideologically rich, but artistic director Chip Rolley has taken care to focus heavily on how language constructs these ideas. The written word is, after all, the weapon of choice of each of these provocateurs.
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Sydney 2000
Date 16 May 2011-22 May 2011
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