Berry Writers Festival 2024: 'To Thine Own Self Be True: Identity & Authenticity' with Alice Pung

Depicting one’s life or the lives of others, whether in memoir or fiction, raises issues of identity, as well as authenticity. Yet identity – cultural, sexual,  racial, national --  can be  fluid and, rightly or wrongly, is sometimes contested, as is the authenticity of its depiction. Memoirist Kaya Wilson, biographer Jacqueline Kent, novelist Kirsty Jagger, and memoirist and novelist Alice Pung examine the challenges these issues present in writing about their own lives and the lives of others.