The 4th China-Australia Literary Forum took place in Guangzhou, China, 7th-11th May, 2017. The event was a collaboration between China Writers Association, the Guangdong Provincial Writers Association, and the Western Sydney University Writing and Society Research Centre.
There were five panels covering 'Literature Mobility and Place' (novel panel); 'The Prospect of Publishing and the Reason for Publishing' (publisher's panel); 'Literature and Translation' (translator's panel); 'The Value of Criticism' (critics panel); and 'Poem and Society' (poetry panel).
Participating Australian literary authors and poets included: Alexis Wright, Gail Jones, Kate Fagan and David Musgrave.
Participating Chinese authors included: A Lai, Wei Wei, Wang Shiyue, Zheng Xiaoqiong, Kang Ke.
Participating scholars and translators included: Anthony Uhlmann, Xie Youshun, Li Chaoquan.*TU8
Gail Jones ( 盖尔·琼斯 )was educated at the University of Western Australia (UWA), later joining the staff as an Associate Professor in the English Department there. In 2001, she won The Australian University Teaching Award in the Humanities and the Arts category. After working at UWA, Jones took up a position as professor within the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. Her academic interests include gender and narrative theory, literary theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, creative writing, contemporary and Australian literature, and cinema studies.
Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and have been highly praised for their linguistic richness and intellectual complexity, their subtle humour and intricate craftwork.
Jones has published seven novels to date (2018). Her structually complex debut novel Black Mirror was described by the judges of the Nita Kibble Literary Award as 'a witty interrogation of the problems faced by the biographer'. She followed this work with Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, Five Bells, A Guide to Berlin, and the forthcoming The Death of Noah Glass. Between them, her novels have won the Colin Roderick Award, the Nita Kibble Award (twice), the Western Australian Premier's Book Award (twice), the South Australian Premier's Award, the Barbara Ramsden Award, and the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, and have been shortlisted and longlisted for national and international prizes including the Miles Franklin Award and the Booker Prize. She won the Philip Hodgins Award (for a consistently outstanding Australian writer) in 2011.
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Nicholas Jose ( 尼古拉斯·周思 ) was born in London, and grew up in Australia. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, and the Australian National University. Winning a Rhodes Scholarship in 1974, he completed a PhD on seventeenth century English literature at Oxford University. He taught for several years at the Australian National University before spending eighteen months teaching and writing in China. In 1987 he was appointed Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, an appointment he held until 1990.
Since 1990, Jose has written novels based on his experience and knowledge of China, and a novel, The Custodians (1996), that explores the concept of custodianship in Australia. He has also written reviews, short stories, essays, poetry and travel articles, many of which deal with aspects of Chinese art and culture.
His novel The Red Thread (2000) interweaves his translation of the Chinese story Six Chapters of a Floating Life with a contemporary narrative by using a red ink for the former story. Jose's writing has been supported by fellowships from the Australia-China Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australia Council.
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Kate Fagan is a Sydney-based poet, musician, songwriter and editor. Formerly the editor of US-based journal of poetics How2, she was, in 2018, convening the English major at Western Sydney University. As a poet, her collection First Light was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2013.
Fagan holds a BA Hons and PhD, both from the University of Sydney. In 2018, she was a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University.
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David Musgrave studied at the University of Sydney and graduated with a PhD in literature. He worked full time in information technology, while writing prose and poetry. In 2001, he was awarded an Australian Society of Authors mentorship. His work has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards and prizes including the Henry Lawson Prize for Poetry, The Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize, The Broadway, Somerset, Newcastle and Bruce Dawe Poetry prizes.
In 2005 he founded Puncher and Wattmann, 'Australia's newest independent publisher of quality Australian writing'. He is a senior lecturer at Newcastle University.
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