Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF

Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas. GUESTS Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels  including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts Christos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between   BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED   Colm Tóibín, works Gustave Flaubert, works Graham Greene, works Marcel Proust, works Virginia Woolf, works  E.M. Forster, works Flannery O'Connor, works Joseph Conrad, Typhoon Patrick White, works Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo Vladimir Nabokov, works Robbie Arnott, Limberlost John Steinbeck, The Breakfast Saul Bellow, Herzog Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye William Faulkner, works Charles Dickens, works William Shakespeare, works Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian Stendahl, The Red and the Black Hannah Kent, Devotion Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor Christos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael) CREDITS Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Claire Nichols Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Beth Stewart + David Le May Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown