Palestinian-Australian writer Samah Sabawi In Conversation with Linda Mottram Tues 20 May, 2025 from 7pm at Tathra Hotel

Join our Meet The Author event:
Palestinian-Australian writer Samah Sabawi In Conversation with Linda Mottram
This evening will also mark the launch of the Headland Writers Festival 2025! Early bird tickets will be available for purchase during the event.

Tuesday 20 May, 7pm to 8.30pm at Tathra Hotel.
Tickets are FREE, but please register online via
https://events.humanitix.com/palestinian-australian...

“If there's a more important or timely book in 2024, I'm yet to come across it. Five big shiny stars.” Good Reading Magazine

In July 1967, forty-day-old Samah was carried out of Gaza, Palestine, in her mother’s arms in search of her father who had escaped to Jordan – somewhere. Fifty-six years later, she’s an author, playwright, poet, journalist and recipient of multiple national and international awards.

Samah will discuss her book Cactus Pear for My Beloved, which has been short-listed for the Stella Literature prize, NSW Literary award and The Age Book of the Year. This is part of her Far South Coast tour on her way to present at the Sydney Writers Festival.

Linda Mottram has been a journalist for 30 years. As a foreign correspondent for the ABC, she has served across the Middle East, in Russia and the Balkans, while she has also reported from Asia and the Pacific, covering wars, assassinations, refugee crises, and political upheavals. A Walkley Award winner, Linda was also ABC Sydney’s Mornings presenter and then the presenter of the evening radio current affairs flagship, “PM”. She has also reported for European radio networks, and for newspapers in Australia. Originally from Perth, she now lives in Bega, on the New South Wales south coast.