Authors withdraw from Adelaide Writers’ Week after Palestinian Australian author dropped | ABC NEWS
Authors including Miles Franklin winners Michelle de Kretser and Melissa Lucashenko will boycott Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) to protest the cancellation of an event featuring Palestinian Australian author, lawyer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah.
She was dropped by the Adelaide Festival Board, chaired by marketing executive Tracey Whiting. The board includes journalist Daniela Ritorto and Adelaide Airport managing director Brenton Cox, but no artists, following the departure of choreographer Stephen Page.
Adelaide Writers’ Week is part of Adelaide Festival, but is led by director Louise Adler.
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