Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

Writer

Shankari Chandran

Shankari Chandran is an Australian Tamil lawyer and author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Song of the Sun God, The Barrier, Safe Haven and Unfinished Business. Her fiction explores dispossession and the creation of community, and in 2023 she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Shankari has spent over two decades working as a lawyer in the social justice field, on national and international program design. She is based in Sydney, Australia, where she lives with her husband and children.

Byron Writers Festival '25

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country

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