Books I read in 2011
Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever
David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa
Geoffrey Robinson - If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
Jean Hatzfield - The Antelope’s Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Granta - The Granta Book of Reportage
Dahr Jamail - Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
Ann Fessler - The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women who Surrendered Children in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Jonny Steinberg - Three Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic
Max Schaefer - Children of the Sun
Nicole Krauss - Great House
David Sedaris - Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Yiyun Li - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Barbara Demick - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Rory Stewart - Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq
Granta - 114: Aliens
Ali Eteraz - Children of Dust
Granta - 92: The View from Africa
Junichiro Tanizaki - A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women
Nathaniel Fick - One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy
Sabrina Chapadjiev (ed.) - Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Manjushree Thapa - A Boy From Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung
Lee Gutkind (ed.) - In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
Gerrie Lim - Invisible Trade: High-Class Sex for Sale in Singapore
Granta - 115: The F Word
Carolyn Shine - Single White Female in Hanoi
Hanifa Deen - Ali Abdul v the King: Muslim Stories from the Dark Days of White Australia
Granta - 103: The Rise of the British Jihad
Francis Spufford - Red Plenty
Granta - 116: Ten Years Later
Sara Knox - The Orphan Gunner
Alice Pung (ed.) - Growing Up Asian in Australia
Meanjin Quarterly - 2-2011: Autumn
John Simpson - Not Quite World’s End
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Joanna Hoare and Fiona Gell (eds.) - Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case Studies on Learning for Action
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Not a very good effort this year, I’m afraid. Too much travelling and not enough reflecting.
Most-enjoyed books of the year: Red Plenty, In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, Nothing to Envy, The Granta Book of Reportage, The Girls Who Went Away, Children of the Sun, Great House.
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Hello! I'm Kate Walton. I'm a 24-year-old from Canberra, Australia. I write, take photographs and travel whenever I get the chance.
In 2011, I left my job to travel and work overseas. In February and March, I caught trains, buses and hydrofoils across Japan and South Korea. In April, I moved to live in Nepal for five months to work for a media arts collective called Sattya.
I'm currently based in Kendari, on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, for a year as an AYAD with Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia.
Current location: Kendari, Indonesia.
Upcoming travels: Jakarta & Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Visited and/or lived in: Australia; Fiji; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Japan; Nepal; Singapore; South Korea; Thailand; United Kingdom; United States; Vanuatu.
Dream travels: Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, West Papua, Flores); East Timor; Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam; Malaysia; India; Mongolia; Burma; Iran; Morocco; Egypt; Uganda; Rwanda; following the Silk Road from Xian (China) to Istanbul (Turkey).
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