In conversation: Nick Jose and Olivia De Zilva

Description

What does it mean to write Asian-diasporic stories in Australia?

Join authors Nicholas Jose and Olivia De Zilva as they sit down to discuss recent Australiasian literature and analyse how the ‘other’ finds home amongst hegemony. 

Nick and Olivia will discuss their novels The Idealist and Chinese Whispers, Cultural Essays, Plastic Budgie and Eggshell in this lively conversation about place, belonging and writing on the margins. 

They will talk about the tenuous connection between Asia and Australia - and how this boundary translates to powerful literary stories. 
 

Olivia De Zilva is a writer based in Kaurna Yerta / Adelaide and is the author of two novels - Plastic Budgie and Eggshell. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Guardian, SBS, The Saturday Paper, Mascara Literary Review and many other publications. Olivia was the inaugural winner of the AAWP Novella Prize.

Nicholas Jose has published eight novels, three collections of short fiction and a memoir, as well as a wide range of essays - concerning Australian and Asian life and arts. He is Adjunct Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University and Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide.   

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