2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for The Age as a reporter, feature writer and editor of various sections, including the books pages.
Jane won the inaugural Australian Human Rights Award for journalism.
At present, she writes a Saturday column, ‘Turning Pages’, and features about books and writing for The Age. Her first novel was The White Star. Her second novel, Little People, was shortlisted in the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.
In Conversation: Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley with Jane Sullivan
Award-wining author Nadia Wheatley’s career spans 40 years and includes some fine biographies and non-fiction works, including books include The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift (2001), Her Mother’s Daughter (2018) and Radicals — Remembering the Sixties (2021). Nadia's new book Strange New World Belsen’s First Year of Freedom reveals the untold story of the first 12 months following the Allies’ liberation of Belsen concentration camp in 1945.