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Speaking in Tongues

Session 7
Special Event Talks
Gilbert Suite, Adelaide Convention Centre
Wow afc web session 07 2560x1280
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    • Saturday
      3:30 pm — 4:30 pm

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Today’s writers speak in many languages, sometimes all at once. These writers navigate the space where translation isn’t just technical, it’s deeply personal.


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Beverley Jason Sami on Stage

A vibrant celebration of Asian and Asian Australian literature, writing, and ideas. Discover, engage, inspire. 7-9 November '25.

Discover OzAsia Festival's Weekend of Words


Speakers

Eugenia Flynn

Speaker

Boon Wurrung Country (Melbourne), Australia

Eugenia Flynn is a Chinese Malaysian, Larrakia, Tiwi and Muslim writer, creative and researcher. Her essays, short stories, poems and textual works have been published and exhibited widely. Her creative practice explores narratives of truth, grief and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender.

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues, Art Will Save Us and The Line Keeps Moving

Eugenia Flynn

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Speaker

Chandil, India

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar has written the novels The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey and My Father's Garden, and the short story collection, The Adivasi Will Not Dance. He has won a Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and has been shortlisted twice for the JCB Prize for Literature and The Hindu Prize.

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

Malachi Edwin Vethamani

Speaker

Seremban, Malaysia

Malachi Edwin Vethamani is a Malaysian poet, writer, editor, critic, bibliographer, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. He has published five volumes of poems and two collections of short stories. He is the Founding Editor of Men Matters Online Journal (2020).

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues and The Poetic Line Workshop

Malachi Edwin Vethamani

Beni Sumer Yanthan

Speaker

Kohima, Nagaland India

Beni Sumer Yanthan is the pen name of Yanbeni Yanthan. She is an Assistant Professor at Nagaland University. Her works encompassing poetry, essays, reviews, and short stories, have been published in various journals, e-zines, newspapers, and forums.

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues

Beni Sumer Yanthan

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

Moderator

Naarm (Melbourne), Australia

Mridula researches and teaches Indigenous, multicultural and postcolonial literatures, with an emphasis on diasporic writings of South Asia around the world (including in Asia, Africa and the Americas), Asian literatures in translation and culinary cultures.

Appearing in: Speaking in Tongues and Art Will Save Us

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

Performance Location: Gilbert Suite, Adelaide Convention Centre

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