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 ters-festival/
SUMMARY:The Year of Facing Fire - Sydney Jewish Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Helena Kriel’s debut memoir\, set in 1990s South Africa\, eme
 rges from the darkness of apartheid. The Year of Facing Fire centres aro
 und Helena’s dying brother\, who has kept his illness a shameful secret 
 as he leads his family through the fire. Rita Nash will interview Helena a
 bout the real-life inspiration for her powerful book.\n\n “My brother w
 as on the list of the first twenty people in South Africa that were diagno
 sed with HIV. Nobody even knew what HIV was. My siblings didn’t know he 
 was diagnosed with HIV because our parents decided not to disclose to us.
 ” Helena Kriel\, The Year of Facing Fire\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nHelena Kriel\n\
 nAward-winning playwright and Hollywood screenwriter\, Helena Kriel\, is a
  world-traveller. The Year of Facing Fire\, about her dynamic South Afric
 an family\, was set in the year Helena was commissioned to write the scree
 nplay for the hit film Kama Sutra. Helena teaches screenwriting at Spaldi
 ng University\, and is the founder of Baby Rhino Rescue\, a NFP dedicated 
 to saving rhinos from extinction. Helena divides her time between South Af
 rica\, and Los Angeles.\n\n \n\n\n\nInterviewer – Rita Nash\n\nWith an 
 extensive career as a librarian\, book shop manager and teacher\, Rita Nas
 h’s story\, The Last Barrier\, was published in Children of the Shadow
 s\, Australia’s first collection of second-generation Holocaust survivor
  stories. In the 1990s\, Rita also worked at a high school as Student Welf
 are Coordinator\, where she developed programs to reduce the stigma around
  HIV and AIDS\, and in 1991 cared for a family friend as he battled his AI
 DS diagnosis. Rita is a dedicated guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum and a 
 long-standing member of the SJWF Programming Committee.\n\n&nbsp\;
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