The conference will run from March 18 to 23 at the UND Memorial Union. There will be readings, a panel discussion, book signings, a film festival, and student and public readings.
All events are free and open to the public.
Peter Carey has won every major fiction prize in Australia at least once, as well as the 1988 Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda , now a major motion picture. He also wrote the screenplay for another of his novels, Bliss , which became the Best Film in Australia for 1985. Carey has also worked in advertising, once owning his own agency. His new novel, True History of the Kelly Gang , tells the story of 19th Century famous populist Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Frederick Wiseman is a towering international figure in the world of documentary film.