Natural Born Storytellers
Moderator: Suzanne Leal • Ruth Wilson, Jane Caro and Hilde Hinton
Behind the doors and curtains of everyday homes, what dramas are quietly playing out? Three writers with a talent for noticing the extraordinary in the ordinary discuss what makes good people, good lives, and good stories.
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RUTH WILSON
Ruth Wilson read her first Jane Austen novel in 1947. In 2021, at the age of 88, she graduated from The University of Sydney with a PhD suggesting a new approach to reading literary fiction at school. She encourages her four children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren to read widely, wisely and well. She and her husband are LATs, a married couple who live apart together. She is the author of The Jane Austen Remedy.
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JANE CARO
Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator.
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HILDE HINTON
Hilde avoided being a writer for many years. But after her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Loudness of Unsaid Things, made a number of bestseller lists, everything changed. Now the stories won't stop. Hilde lives in a boisterous house in Melbourne with a revolving door for the temporarily defeated and takes great pride in people leaving slightly better than when they arrived. Her children are mostly loved. And so are her books.
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SUZANNE LEAL
Suzanne Leal is the author of novels The Deceptions, The Teacher’s Secret and Border Street. Suzanne chairs the fiction and poetry panel for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. She is a lawyer experienced in child protection, criminal law and refugee law, and a senior member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.