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Margaret Simons, author of Six Square Metres: Gardening in the Inner City and Damon Young, author of Philosopher in the Garden revel in their shared love of literature and gardening
For more on Damon Young, read our Artist Highlight.
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Presented by Mondo Organics
Writers And Their Gardens
Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Pl, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
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Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of thirteen books and numerous articles and essays. She won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism in 2015, and the Quill Award for best feature in 2016, both for her article Fallen Angels, published in The Monthly, on the children of Australian sex tourists in the Philippines. Margaret has co-written biographies with former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and mass media proprietor Kerry Stokes, both of which went on to win awards. Her most recent book, Six Square Metres, was launched in October 2015.
Damon Young
Damon Young is a prize-winning philosopher and writer. He is the author of seven books, including How to Think About Exercise, Philosophy in the Garden, Distraction and his latest, The Art of Reading. His works are published internationally in English and translation, and he has also writtern poetry and short fiction. Damon is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne.