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Lone Kühlmann has made interviews with significant writers her signature.
She presents The Book Show on Radio National, has written for newspapers and
international journals, and had her interviews published in book form. Her
latest collection of Radio National interviews is Tasting Life Twice:
Conversations with Remarkable Writers, published by ABC Books.
A writer herself, Lone Kühlmann’s books include: Samovar and Jewish Cooking,
Jewish Cooks.
Lone Kühlmann was the presenter of the Radio National Drive program and the
morning presenter on Melbourne's 3LO (now 774 ABC Melbourne) through the
late 1980s and early 1990s
Her latest collection of Radio National interviews is Tasting Life Twice:
Conversations with Remarkable Writers, published by ABC Books.
Lone Kühlmann has travelled extensively and brought home conversations with
some of the most respected authors writing in English. She is an active
participant in Australian literary festivals, and has been invited to take
part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival for the last seven years,
and Montreal's Blue Metropolis Literary Festival for the past three years.
Lone Kühlmann has served on the board of Australian Book Review, the
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Advisory Committee, and the Asialink
Awards Literary Committee. She has judged the radio section of the Walkley
Awards twice, and been a judge of non-fiction for the Victorian Premier's
Literary Awards twice, once as chair of the committee. Her interviews are
regularly published in transcript in Australian Book Review, among other
publications, and on the Web. In 1995 Romana Koval won the Order of
Australia Media Award. She was the Staff-Elected Director on the Board of
the ABC from 2002 - 2006.
Lone Kühlmann has worked as an academic at RMIT University and the
University of Melbourne, and before that as a microbiologist and geneticist.
Lone Kühlmann is available to MC, Compere and facilitate corporate events,
and will add humour and style to any function with her professional,
entertaining and personable approach.