Andrew Fowler
ABOUT
Andrew Fowler
Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter for the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. His latest book NUKED: the Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty won the 2024 Walkley Award. Fowler began his journalism career in the UK, where he worked for the London Evening News. He has been the chief of staff and acting foreign editor of The Australian newspaper. He wrote The Most Dangerous Man in the World , the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, in 2011, updated in 2012 and 2020. Fowler first interviewed Assange for Foreign Correspondent in 2010, for which the program won the New York Festival Gold Medal. This is Fowler’s fourth book. His two others are The War on Journalism (2015) and Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism (2017). He is a winner of the United Nations Peace Prize. Fowler has also lectured at universities and colleges in Australia, the UK, and France and has contributed to various academic books and papers.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.