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March 07, 2006
True Blue Coetzee
As foreshadowed last week, J.M. Coetzee took Australian citizenship yesterday in a ceremony at the Adelaide Writers' Week.
Coetzee was sworn in by Federal Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone in front of some 200 people, including Cornelia Rau - falsely detained by immigration officials last year. Would have been interesting to see the minister's face when she noticed Ms Rau. I would have paid good money for that.
Kerryn Goldsworthy has indicated that she intends to post about this ceremony on her weblog. It's not there yet, so we'll just keep gently prodding.
Posted by larrikin at March 7, 2006 10:04 AM
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No, no, tragic news -- I didn't make it. Had to prepare for conversational sessions with a couple of writers the following day, plus a book-launch speech I still haven't written, so was up v. late the previous night. None of us is as young as we used to be.
There is however a detailed and impressionistic running commentary on Writers' Week being posted whenever I get the chance.
Posted by: Kerryn Goldsworthy at March 7, 2006 10:44 PM