Meet: Dmetri Kakmi, author of 'The Women in the Well'

Meet the Creators Series*
Dmetri Kakmi  
Author of the new novel The Woman in the Well

‘Thrilling, wild, unpredictable and original' Sofie Laguna author of Infinite Splendour 

6pm Saturday 14th June
Free, but please register through Humanitix

Dmetri’s newest novel is set in the Central Australian Desert where his story fuses The Arabian Nights and Ovid’s Metamorphosis and then rubs them up against Aboriginal folklore.

Join Maggie Fooke and Dmetri Kakmi in conversation as they explore the creative process that led to the writing of The Woman in the Well, including those ancient tales that Dmetri grew up with in Turkey

Other acclaimed books by Dmetri include Mother Land and The Door & other Uncanny Tales.

About the author 
Turkish-born Greek Australian essayist, reviewer, broadcaster, editor and author Dmetri Kakmi migrated to Australia in 1971 when he was 10 years old. His memoir of growing up on the island of Tenedos, titled Mother Land (2008, new edition 2015) has received widespread acclaim and has been published in Australia, England and Turkey.
Kakmi has also compiled and edited the children’s anthology, When We Were Young.  His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, these include essays such as “Night of the Living Wog”, “The Tranny Horror From Outer Space”. His work “Haunting Matilda”, published in Cthulhu Deep Down Under, was shortlisted for Best Fantasy Novella in the Aurealis Awards 2015. He lives in Melbourne where he worked as a senior editor at Penguin Books.

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* Meet the Creators Series. Conversations with authors, musicians, visual artists, film makers that allow a place to explore and understand their work, all in the intimate surrounds of The Coolroom.