
James Vella-Bardon
ABOUT
James Vella-Bardon
James Vella-Bardon is a Sydney-based, award-winning author born and raised in Malta. James qualified as a lawyer after reading law and history at the universities of Malta and Sydney. In 2005, he completed a doctoral thesis on the self-determination of Indigenous minorities. Upon emigrating to Sydney in 2007, he also studied creative writing. Ring of Ruse is the last instalment in his epic, award-winning pentalogy The Sassana Stone, which tells the story of a Spanish Armada castaway in Tudor Ireland, who joins the struggle to liberate western Ireland from brutal suppression.
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.