Chris Raja is a writer and the 2021 UTS Copyright Agency New Writer’s Fellow. His most recent work is a memoir –Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story.
Byron Writers Festival 2021
PODCAST
Into the Suburbs: Chris Raja in conversation with Sunil Badami
Chris Raja talks with Sunil Badami about his insightful and moving memoir, Into The Suburbs. They discuss the roles of truth and fiction in memoir, as well as family, migration, homelands and identity.
Exploring topical issues of race, class and migration, Into the Suburbs is an affecting portrait of one family’s search for home.
Thanks to Delta Kay, Arakwal Bundjalung woman, for the Welcome to Country on this podcast.
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Into the Suburbs is available to purchase online via The Book Room Collective.
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About the authors
Chris Raja
Sunil Badami
Sunil Badami is a writer and broadcaster, who’s written for most major Australian publications and appears regularly on ABC radio and TV.
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