Ian David Roberts
Author of Whisper My Name to the Faeries
About the Book
Words about the last 25 years: Buddhist practice at a monastery in Beaufort, a vigil for my father, living by the sea, writing The Celestials, visits to Timor Leste, being on country with First Nations friends ..... and more
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Published by Australian Scholarly Press.
About the Author
Ian David Roberts is a novelist, poet and freelance writer. His most recent work, The Celestials, was The Age and Sydney Morning Herald Fiction Pick of the Week in November 2023.His essays, short stories and articles have been published by Allen and Unwin, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and Neo Kosmos. He cowrote a weekly column for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald for nine years with advertising executive Harold Mitchell.Ian is a member of the board of Bangarra Dance Theatre. Previously Ian served as CEO of the Harold Mitchell Foundation, General Manager of the Melbourne Festival, General Manager of the Geelong Performing Arts Centre, and as Interim CEO of Arts Centre Melbourne in 2014.Ian’s board appointments have included terms as Chair and Deputy Chair Annamila First Nations Foundation, Chair of the Victorian Australia Day Committee, Deputy Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival, and as Deputy Chair of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Ian has also served as a Board Director of Arts Centre Melbourne ( The Victorian Arts Centre Trust) and a member of the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. He served at the President of the Queenscliff Football and Netball Club.He was formerly Chair of Playing Australia, the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, the Australian Performing Arts Centres Association and the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres and has held board positions with the Victorian Council for the Arts, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Cultural Infusion, Australian Entertainment Industry Employers Association and Melbourne International Jazz Festival and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board.Ian has worked as an exhibiting photographer. His first solo exhibition “Plottings” February 2006 was at 45 Downstairs Flinders Lane Melbourne.