Antoinette Lattouf
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1,118 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Antoinette Lattouf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More books were sold, more people turned up, and a third of the people who turned up were under 25.
Really?
So it broke all records.
You got the Gen Zs after you get to them.
It broke all records.
Look, in part, I mean, there were a lot of Gen Zs who came along to the panel that Jan, Fran and I did and some of the other events and my one on my book, but I can't claim it all.
There were also like school excursions and stuff like that.
So there's school groups and high school groups come through as well.
But that's so cool that they're in...
being taken to that.
They are, but it was a notable difference in the attendance rates of Sydney Writers Festival.
And my book was the biggest seller at the festival, which again, to me, like I have been attacked in so many different ways and
And the festival was attacked for platforming, platforming, daring to have Randa Abdul-Fattah in there.
Her book was, I think, the number four seller.
And so for me, it's audiences.
Like I'm hoping that audiences decide and the public decides with their feet and with their money what it is that they're going to be doing.
Are we really going to be in a world where the premier can tell us who can and can't be at a writers' festival?
Because Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, was like, I think it's crazy that they would have Randa Abdul-Fattah five or six months after the Bondi terror attack.
The Bondi terror attack is absolutely horrible.
It was committed by a father and son psychotic duo, right?
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