Heroines Festival Book Month Program
This is the full program for Heroines Festival's 2020 Book Month.
This is the full program for Heroines Festival's 2020 Book Month.
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<strong>Heroines</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Month</strong><br />
Amra<br />
Pajalic<br />
& Things<br />
Nobody Knows<br />
But Me<br />
Guests<br />
<strong>Book</strong>s<br />
Amra Pajalic is an an editor, teacher and<br />
award-winning author. Her debut novel<br />
The Good Daughter (Text Publishing,<br />
2009) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for<br />
Literature’s Civic Choice Award. She is<br />
co-editor of the anthology Growing up<br />
Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin,<br />
2019) shortlisted for the 2015 Children’s<br />
<strong>Book</strong> Council of the Year awards. Her<br />
latest book is a family memoir Things<br />
Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge,<br />
2019) shortlisted for the 2020 National<br />
Biography Award. She is completing a PhD<br />
in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.<br />
www.amrapajalic.com<br />
Amra’s <strong>Book</strong> Club<br />
Nomination<br />
Amra’s <strong>Book</strong> Club Nomination - You Must<br />
Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied.<br />
A beautiful novel about Layla who is of<br />
Sudanese background and who dreams<br />
of having adventures and inventions and<br />
gets a scholarship to a prestigious high<br />
school. She faces racism and discrimination<br />
but through persistence and courage finds<br />
her way. A great novel that challenges<br />
stereotypes across race and gender Layla<br />
is a strong courageous character that<br />
I loved and that speaks to young girls.<br />
Can’t wait to recommend this book to my<br />
students.<br />
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