The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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Nadia Niaz

Nadia Niaz is the author of The Djinn Hunters (2023, Rabbit Press), which was Highly Commended in the 2023 Anne Elder Award, and the founding editor of the Australian Multilingual Writing Project. Most recently, her poetry was featured in Reading the City of Literature: A celebration of a year of Melbourne writing and publishing (2023). Her work explores multilingual creative expression, translation, and what ‘belonging’ means. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM-7:00PM

No Island is an Island: Literary Translation in Australia

What challenges do translators face in a country both far-flung and multicultural? In an age of digital connection, is Australia turning outward, or still looking in? Come and discover how language shapes what – and who – we read.