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In this episode, a conversation recorded at the launch of Raimond Gaita's Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings. For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation. In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, and the moral demands of dialogue give way to a torrent of competing monologues, Gaita's invitation to rediscover what genuine conversation requires of us could not be more timely. Gaita was joined in conversation by Maria Tumarkin.
This episode of Ideas At The House features an Antidote festival event like no other. As a response to the brutal invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine, the event features sombre and beautiful works by Ukrainian poets, musicians, and storytellers Maria Tumarkin, Serhiy Zhadan, Billie Tumarkin, Anatoli Torjinski & Olga Boichak. Hosted by Chip Rolley, this event was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in September 2022. -Watch other talks on Stream. The streaming platform from the Sydney Opera House. Register for free now and start watching.Follow the Sydney Opera House on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“When women speak of war they say nothing or almost nothing of what we are used to reading and hearing about”. These words, by Nobel-Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich inspired acclaimed writer and cultural historian Maria Tumarkin to create an extraordinary multi-disciplinary event called “When Women Speak of War: Artists reckon With Wars Declared and Hidden”, which will have its world premiere on Thursday 28 April at the National Theatre in Melbourne. The performance will feature Ukrainian-born writers, musicians and performers alongside a diverse line-up of brilliant artists. The aim, Maria says, is “To stir up, honour, cliché-bust and transport.” Conceived before the war in Ukraine as part of the Festival of Jewish Art and Music (FOJAM) to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the performance takes on particular resonance in light of the war in Maria’s beloved homeland. Part of the proceeds of ticket sales will go to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Fund. There are still ticket available, or you can sign up to watch online – here is the link https://www.fojam.com/ SHOW NOTES: Nicole Abadee Website: https://www.nicoleabadee.com.au Facebook: @booksbooksbookspodcast OR @nicole.abadee Twitter: @NicoleAbadee Instagram: @booksbooksbookspodcast OR @nicoleabadee Festival of Jewish Art and Music (FOJAM) Website: https://www.fojam.com Twitter: @FojamMelbourne Facebook: @fojammelbourne Instagram: @fojammelbourne Maria Tumarkin Website: http://www.mariatumarkin.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Nobel Prize–winning writer Svetlana Alexievich wrote that when women speak of war, ‘they say nothing or almost nothing of what we are used to reading and hearing about'. So what are those stories that have gone unread? What would we hear if we chose to listen? Maria Tumarkin and Lior Albeck-Ripka are the curators of When Women Speak of War and in the Drawing Room they speak about how Alexievich has inspired their work and the current invasion of Ukraine.
The Nobel Prize–winning writer Svetlana Alexievich wrote that when women speak of war, ‘they say nothing or almost nothing of what we are used to reading and hearing about'. So what are those stories that have gone unread? What would we hear if we chose to listen? Maria Tumarkin and Lior Albeck-Ripka are the curators of When Women Speak of War and in the Drawing Room they speak about how Alexievich has inspired their work and the current invasion of Ukraine.
“Maybe the fingernail in the flesh is your dream too, now that loving and staying away are newly conjoined.” – Maria Tumarkin For our 2021 Festival, an all-star line-up of guests came together to deliver a speech on the Festival theme, Within Reach. Speakers celebrated the power of writing to generate empathy, imagination and action. In this moving highlight, cultural historian and novelist Maria Tumarkin (Axiomatic) muses on the blurred boundaries between personal and shared space in a world of colonial theft, social distancing measures and rolling crises. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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In this episode, Oliver Reeson, Mia Nie and Tori Hobbs share readings on the theme Body Language. These artists reflect on bodies in pain and bodies in pleasure; what it means to inhabit a body in transition and a body in illness. They will consider both the ordinariness and specialness, as well as the resistance, of living in their bodies. Oliver Reeson is an essayist and screenwriter. In 2021, they are one of the recipients of The Next Chapter Fellowship, mentored by Maria Tumarkin. They are also the co-creator and writer of SBS web series Homecoming Queens. You can read Oliver Reeson's essay ‘Body Language: on Kylie Minogue, Cancer and Coming Back to Life' here: https://lithub.com/body-language-on-kylie-minogue-cancer-and-coming-back-to-life/ Mia Nie is a Chinese-Australian comic artist, zine-maker, and award-nominated ex-poet. Her work explores the complexities, contradictions, and deeply felt desires of transgender subjectivity. She is passionate about understanding queer history and imagining queer futures. Mia is a recipient of The Wheeler Centre's The Next Chapter 2020 Fellowship, and is currently working on her first graphic novel. Tori Hobbs is a queer, non-binary, disabled, low-income, Burgher writer and care worker living on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri land. Tori hopes to invest their personal and professional experiences of ableism, care work, disability justice and its intersections into all that they do. Vignettes is produced by Millie Baylis and audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care and the artwork is by Molly Hunt. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured, as well as access a transcript of the episode, on the EWF website – at emergingwritersfestival.org.au This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We acknowledge that First Nations Peoples are the first storytellers of this land, and that their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and to the Elders of the lands that this podcast reaches.
Have writers been imprisoned in Australia for their work? Most definitely and PEN has worked to have them freed. In this history of PEN in Australia Arnold Zable tells the story of Cheikh Kone, a journalist from the Ivory Coast who was detained in Port Hedland and writer Behrouz Boochani detained on Manus Island. As well as the letters members of PEN have written to imprisoned writers around the world, like those in Myanmar, to tell them that they are not alone. I am a stranger to you but please know that you are no stranger to me – Maria Tumarkin in a letter to Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian writer detained in Iran until recently.
After the runaway success of Sarah Krasnostein's debut The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster, Sarah spent time in Australia and the US talking to six extraordinary people who held fast to a belief even though it rubbed against the grain of conventional wisdom. Her research culminated in The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith, a deeply humane and deftly drawn enquiry into the power of belief. Sarah is joined by author of Axiomatic, Maria Tumarkin, to explore the writing process behind her remarkable works, the tension between non-fiction and confession, and the ceaseless lure of curious subjects. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ukranian-Australian writer Maria Tumarkin takes us to the St Petersburg of her youth, a time just before the Soviet regime's collapse.
Flowers. Frasier. Fun. They're elements that make a good blueprint. Plus, an re-introduction to the oft-maligned Brussel sprout, and later, a trip to '90s St Petersburg with writer Maria Tumarkin.
Rochelle Smith, director of the Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival, talks about this year’s program Life, Changing and explores the relationship between literature and non-fiction writing; and Australian cultural historian, essayist and novelist, Maria Tumarkin, discusses her State of the (Writing) Nation oration delivered for The Wheeler Centre and available now on YouTube.With presenter Mel Cranenburgh. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/backstory
With entries now open for the third year of The Next Chapter, the Wheeler Centre's writers' scheme, join three recipients and their mentors – Arthur Bolkas and Arnold Zable, Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Ellen van Neerven, and Jean Bachoura and Maria Tumarkin – to discuss the varied forms support for emerging writers can take, and the unique qualities of writing mentorships. Hosted by Veronica Sullivan. Veronica Sullivan, Maria Tumarkin and Jean Bachoura Presented annually, The Next Chapter gives ten outstanding emerging writers the time and space to write, and a 12-month mentorship with an experienced writer. Through these mentorships, tomorrow's great voices are steered and supported by today's literary icons. Presented in partnership with the Emerging Writers' Festival.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Maria Tumarkin reads from her award-winning non-fiction book Axiomatic, which is part reportage, part philosophical meditation and part storytelling. She interrogates conventional wisdom about the role of the past in shaping the present. Hosted by Magdalena Ball. If would like to buy a copy of Maria’s book Axiomatic, which is published by Brow Books, go to http://www.macleansbooks.com.au
Sophie Hardcastle, Nicola Redhouse and Maria Tumarkin discuss how they have challenged literary boundaries to explore trauma. Host / Magdalena Ball If you would like to buy a copy of Sophie’s book Below Deck, which is published by Allen & Unwin, Nicola’s book Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind, which is published by UQP or Maria’s book Axiomatic, which is published by Brow Books, go to www.macleansbooks.com.au
Maria Tumarkin reads from her award-winning book Axiomatic and talks about language and accents, the many different representations of time in Axiomatic: horizontal, vertical, chronological, cyclical, and 'real' and how she represents these multiple temporalities, about her characters and their complexities, about memory and the limitations of narrative, on axioms and the way they are true and not true, on productivity and caretaking, and much more. You can find out more about Maria's work at her website: http://www.mariatumarkin.com The video version of this conversation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVuhP6yyuwE
Anna and Annie announce yet more award nominations, with the shortlist for the NSW Premier's Literary Award being released this week as well as the winners of the Windham Campbell Prize, including podcast favourites Maria Tumarkin and Yiyun Li. Our book of the week is Weather by Jenny Offill, whose previous novels-in-fragments Dept of Speculation and Last Things have been much loved by Books on the Go hosts. This latest book makes for unsettlingly apt reading amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as anxious librarian Lizzie grapples with the looming climate disaster alongside her complicated personal life. Darkly funny, perceptive and with "deftly curated silences" (Ben Lerner), Weather is the perfect book for our unsettled times. Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading Underland by Robert Macfarlane. Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz
When did the experience of fear become synonymous with the passage into womanhood?
When did the experience of fear become synonymous with the passage into womanhood?
How do we write trauma unflinchingly yet ethically? What is literature’s role in witnessing, archiving and healing deep personal and societal wounds? In this session Eda Gunaydin, Bram Presser, Maria Tumarkin and Anders Villani delve into the complexities of authentically rendering trauma on the page. -- -- Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/literature-and-trauma/ Download the transcript of the podcast here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-LITERATURE-AND-TRAUMA.docx Check out the full festival program here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/
Anna and Annie have book awards fatigue! We discuss the Top Ten best-sellers, including The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion, The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan and The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton with *that* new cover. Our book of the week is Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, a non-fiction book about how we think about the past, and its impact. Winner of the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award and short-listed for the 2019 Victorian and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the 2019 Stella Prize. A stimulating read, we could not put this down. Highly recommended. Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits: Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz
Anna and Annie catch up on book news: the Wellcome Book Prize shortlist (our pick: The Trauma Cleaner); the Stella Prize shortlist, and the Man Booker International longlist. So many awards! Our book of the week is Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. A short novel about Sylvie, living with her parents in a hut in Northumberland. Taut, dark and deals with issues from Brexit to domestic violence, we were gripped from the first page. Long-listed for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin. Then Anna and Amanda will be back with How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits: Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz
The Stella judges say Tumarkin's book "pushes the boundaries of non-fiction so far out that they will never recover".
The Stella Prize is an annual literary award celebrating Australian Women writers. Now in its seventh year, the Stella is an important and influential award marking great Australian writing.The Stella Prize announced their long list this week sparking the discussion around what is important in Australian writing today.Louise Swinn is the Chair of the Stella judges panel and she joined Andrew Pople on Final Draft to discuss the task of sorting through the mountain of submissions and what themes and issues have emerged in the successful twelve. The 2019 Stella Prize longlist:● Little Gods by Jenny Ackland (Allen & Unwin) ● Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette Australia) ● Bluebottle by Belinda Castles (Allen & Unwin) ● The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo (Scribe) ● The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House) ● The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones (Text Publishing) ● Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau (Brow Books) ● The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie (Finch Publishing) ● Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin) ● Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP) ● Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books) ● The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright (Giramondo Publishing)
In episode eighteen of Literary Canon Ball we discuss Maria Tumarkin’s essay, No Skin.A finalist in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Writing, Maria Tumarkin’s essay, No Skin, is an exploration of traumascapes and our complex relationship with the places of trauma. From the holocaust to Princess Diana to Jill Meagher, Tumrakin explores this idea that she cannot seem to shake, wondering about portals and meaning and undeniable power.A writer and cultural historian and the author of four books, the most recent the 2018 Axiomatic from Brow Books, Tumarkin was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to Australia in 1989. She has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year, and NSW Premier’s Literary Award.Show Notes:No Skin by Maria Tumarkin: http://www.mariatumarkin.com/essays-2/2016/3/6/no-skin-melbourne-prize-for-literature-shortlist‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin: https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2018/june/1527775200/helen-elliott/axiomatic-maria-tumarkinInterview with Maria Tumarkin: https://griffithreview.com/articles/interview-withmaria-tumarkin/ABC Conversations: The Kharkov experiment: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-maria-tumarkin/9892170Maria Tumarkin: Axiomatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-FQnzW4JvwThis narrated life: https://griffithreview.com/articles/this-narrated-life/Recommendations:Fi:‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin‘The World Was Whole’ by Fiona WrightAn Unquiet Mind’ by Kay Redfield JamisonKirby:‘Ceremony’ by Leslie Marmon Silko99% Invisible: Articles of Interest podcastNeve:#poetry official documentary by Ariel Bissett‘Mating the Huntress’ by Talia HibbertQueer as Fiction podcastDrunk Lesbians WatchContact UsTwitter: @litcanonballInstagram: @literarycanonballFind us on Facebook at Literary Canon BallEmail: literarycanonball@gmail.com
It's all about the personal on this session from the 2018 Feminist Writers Festival as Maria Tumarkin, Fatima Measham and Sarah Krasnostein discuss how their work challenges stereotypes about women's nonfiction writing, and the power of the personal in illustrating wider points about social, political and cultural phenomena.Writes4Women is proud to be the Podcast Partner for the 2018 Feminist Writers Festival. SHOWNOTES:Writes4WomenWeb - www.writes4women.comFacebook - @writes4womenTwitter / Instagram - @w4wpodcastFeminist Writers Festival Web - www.feministwritersfestival.comFacebook / Twitter - @feministwritersfestMaria TumarkinWeb - http://www.mariatumarkin.comFatima MeashamWeb - www.fatimameasham.netEureka Street - www.eaurekastreet.com.auChatter Square Podcast - https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/edition.aspx?eid=3747Twitter - @foomeisterSarah KrasnosteinWeb - http://sarahkrasnostein.com/bio/Twitter - @delasarahPamela CookWeb - www.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAUKel ButlerFacebook / Twitter- @kelbutler
On this episode of Backstory, Mel Cranenburgh speaks to writer and cultural historian, Maria Tumarkin about her extraordinary new book, Axiomatic, described by Robert Dessaix as "a brilliant kaleidoscope of arresting observations on suffering and innocence in modern times". She's then joined by Backstory's podcast producer, Lisa Gye, to talk about their shared experience of coming from mixed race families in the context the ongoing white washing of Australian history.
Fatima Measham is a social and political writer and activist. She is a regular columnist and consulting editor for the online publication, Eureka Street and co-host of their Chattersquare podcast. In this interview Fatima discusses how moving from the Phillipines to Australia triggered her feminism, how she uses her writing to unpack social issues and her perspective on the scaffolding of the new wave of feminism post #metoo.Fatima will be on the "It's Personal: Feminism and Narrative Nonfiction" panel at the Feminist Writer's Festival on May 26th, with authors Sarah Krasnostein and Maria Tumarkin, as they discuss whether writing about women's real lives can effect social change.Pick up tickets at www.feministwritersfestival.com Writes4Women are proud to be the podcast partner for the Feminist Writers Festival SHOWNOTES: FWFWebsite - www.feministwritersfestival.comFacebook and Twitter@feministwritersfestFATIMA MEASHAMWebsite - www.fatimameasham.netEureka Street - www.eurekastreet.comChattersquare Podcast - https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/Search.aspx?sid=429W4WWebsite - www.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter/Instagram @w4wpodcast
This is the era of fake news and alternative facts. But what about fake science? This week, Communication Mixdown talks with Brisbane environment journalist Graham Readfearn about what's called predatory publishing and the way it's used to communicate climate change denialism which pretends to have scientific legitimacy and 'speak the truth' about global warming.Then, cultural historian and writer, Maria Tumarkin explains how the current fixation for 'truth-seeking' through public forms of story-telling may be one of our culture's most misguided acts of contemporary communication.