Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, storyteller and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, and three novels, Cafe Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven and most recently, Sea of Many Returns. Zable is the author of numerous articles, columns, stories and essays and co-authored the play Kan Yama Kan in which asylum seekers tell their stories. He has been a visiting lecturer in Deakin, Melbourne, Monash, La Trobe, RMIT and Victoria Universities.
Zable is President of the Melbourne Centre of International PEN and has a doctorate in Creative Arts from Melbourne University. He wrote the introduction to the recently republished classic Between Sky and Sea by Yiddish writer Herz Bergner.
