Ramona Koval: By the Book

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Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Ramona Koval has long entered the lounge rooms and accompanied the car journeys of book lovers around Australia with ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. In By the Book, she shares the authors who have written themselves into her life – from Oliver Sacks to Christina Stead – and talks reading, poetry, travel and love. Release your inner book nerd with our first lady of letters. Chaired by Alicia Sometimes.

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Ramona Koval

Alicia Sometimes

Featuring

Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval is a writer who has worked as a journalist and broadcaster. Her most recent books are A Letter to Layla: Travels to our Deep Past and Near Future, Bloodhound: Searching For My Father, and By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life (all published by Text). She was the editor of two volumes ... Read more

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Alicia Sometimes

Alicia Sometimes is an Australian writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Overland, Southerly, Meanjin, the Age, ABC TV’s Sunday... Read more