The History Question- Who Owns The Past?

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  • sf.
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    • Jan 2010
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    The History Question- Who Owns The Past?

    If we are to know ourselves and our history, we need to venture out a little. Below is a session from the 2010 Adelaide Writers' Week, and it concerns the issue of ownership of the past, in the context of historical novels and wider. I would urge you to watch the video. It is fairly long, so needs a commitment.



    The History Question- Who Owns The Past? -, 15 March 2010 11:00

    One of the more intriguing sessions of the 2010 Adelaide Writers' Week posed the question: "History: Who Owns The Past?" The panel, led by award-winning historian Jill Roe, comprised of historical novelists Iliya Troyanov and Antoni Jach, and journalist and biographer Andrew Faulkner. After some very thoughtful discussion, a consensus wasn't reached. The past, it seems, belongs to all of us and to no one; to those in power, and also to ordinary people. On the process of writing historical fiction, Jach struck a chord with his observation, "I find that you need to know, then you need to forget, then you need to imagine".

    Iliya Troyanov, author of "Mumbai to Mecca" and his latest "The Collector Of Worlds", the story of the flamboyant explorer Sir Richard Burton, has won the Leipzig Book Fair, the Berliner Literaturpreis and other major German prizes. He is a member of the PEN centre of the Federal Republic of Germany.

    Besides his work as a writer, photographer, painter and video-maker, Antoni Jach is the author of "An Erratic History", a history of Australia in poetry. He has also written three novels, "Napoleon's Double", "The Weekly Card Game", and "The Layers of the City" which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award in 1999.

    Andrew Faulkner is the author of the biography "Arthur Blackburn, VC" is also the Adelaide cricket and football correspondent for The Australian. He previously worked with News Limited's Messenger Newspapers for more than 11 years. Faulkner is currently working on a history of the Kensington District Cricket Club.

    Jill Roe, AO, is the author of "Stella Miles Franklin, A Biography", which won the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award and the 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (Non-fiction). She has written numerous papers on Miles Franklin's life and work including her edited selection of Miles Franklin's letters, "My Congenials" and "A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin" co-written with Margaret Bettison.
    Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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