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Caroline Baum in conversation with
Anna Krien

Thursday, 19 April 2012

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In association with the exhibition
Janet Laurence: After Eden
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Caroline Baum

in conversation with

Anna Krien

Thursday, 19 April 2012
6 – 8 pm

For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments. In Into the Woods, Krien ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause.

Copies of Into the Woods by Anna Krien are available for purchase through SCAF and can be signed by the author. $29.95


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Speakers:

annakrienbiopic
Anna Krien is an award-winning writer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Anna is regarded as one of the finest writers of literary non-fiction of her generation. Her book Into the Woods, about the ongoing tension between the environment and the economy, won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award. Award winning fellow writer Chloe Hooper says Into the Woods ‘pulsates with life and truth’ while Alan Atwood in The Big Issue praised it for its ‘razor-sharp reporting’. Her writing has also been included in The Monthly, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. Her most recent work is The Quarterly Essay 45: Us and Them, on the importance of animals.

C Baum
Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and broadcaster who has worked for the BBC, ABC TV, ABC Radio and Foxtel on a wide variety of arts programmes. She contributes to the Sydney Morning Herald and other national publications. She was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine, co-wrote and co-produced a documentary for SBS TV on crime writer Arthur Upfield and is currently developing several documentary projects through her company, Two Heads Media. Caroline hosts talks at arts festival around the country and has been a judge for several major literary awards.