On March, 4th, two famous Australian writers Thomas Keneally andBrian Castro visited SIFT in the company of Dene Yeaman, DeputyConsul General of the Australian Consulate-General in Shanghai.They gave a lecture to the teachers and postgraduates of SIFTLanguages School and communicated with them. After that, theyvisited the Australian Studies Center of SIFT and exchangedopinions with its members.
Keneally is a world-famous writer and historian. His novelSchindler's List has won a wide popularity across the world. Castrois a Chinese-Australian writer and he is now the chair ofCreativity Writing of Adelaide University. The Australian StudiesCenter of SIFT has embodied the works of the two famous writersinto the program of The Translation Collection of ContemporaryAustralian Novels.