![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a former Program Director of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali. She has a Masters in Writing, and an M Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. Catriona directed, shot and edited a thirty-minute documentary of the Bookwallah tour, which screened in India and Australia. ![]() Bookwallah won an Australian Federal Government arts award in 2013. In 2012 Catriona co-created the Bookwallah train tour which took Indian authors, Australian authors and a portable, pop-up library of Australian books through South India by train for a month, and delivered live events at every stop along the way. Since then, she has had an ongoing engagement with JLF (in her mind the most vivid event on the planet), which continues to fuel her deep interest in contemporary Indian literature and culture. In 2009, she received an Asialink Arts Residency with Teamwork Arts and Jaipur Literature Festival ( JLF) to conduct research into the work of twenty-four contemporary Indian authors. Catriona Mitchell is a writer, editor and literary events programmer who fell in love with India initially through its literature when in her teens, and later via her first actual visit in 2007. ![]()
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