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Sydney Writers’ Festival

Sydney, Australia

April 29 – May 5, 2019

Sydney Writers’ Festival presents more than 300 events, attracting audiences of 100,000 plus for a week-long conversation of books and ideas. The festival brings together some of the world’s most curious and compassionate, irreverent but respectful, intelligent and argumentative writers. With the finest writing and storytelling at its core, their programming is

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