We return with a conversation recorded, this past summer, between Ceridwen Dovey and our own Timothy Neale and David Boarder Giles. Dovey is a Sydney-based writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and in-depth essays and profiles, as well as a filmmaker. Born in South Africa, she grew up between South Africa and Australia, studied as an undergraduate at Harvard University and as a postgraduate in anthropology at New York University. But, as we learn in this episode, Dovey did not become an anthropologist, and instead moved to a different but related set of analytical and representational problems as a fiction writer. Is fiction ethnographic? How do the commitments of creative non-fiction and anthropology differ? And, what does the moon think about all this? Tune in to find out.

Interested in learning more? Check out https://www.ceridwendovey.com/

Show Credits
Lead Production: Timothy Neale
Deputy Production: David Boarder Giles and Mythily Meher
Editing: Timothy Neale and Mythily Meher

This conversation was produced by Timothy Neale on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

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