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Deborah Conway AM

ABOUT 

Deborah Conway AM

Deborah Conway has been a musician for over 40 years. Innovator, motivator, role model, facilitator, and entrepreneur, Conway is fearless in her risk-taking, has pushed and pulled existing boundaries, and has always argued her cause with integrity and intelligence to pursue the highest standards of whatever is in her sights. For the last three decades, Willy Zygier, musician, songwriter, and composer, has been her primary collaborator. Aside from releasing a dozen studio albums and playing countless live shows, Conway has been a producer, festival director, actor and author. In 2020, Conway was created a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia and received the Australia Council’s Don Banks Award for outstanding contribution to music. In 2022, Conway was inducted into Music Victoria’s Hall of Fame.

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.

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