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Peter Craven

About

Peter Craven is one of Australia’s best-known literary critics. He edited Scripsi with Michael Heyward and was the founding editor of the Black Inc. Best Of annuals (Essays, Stories, Poems) and of Quarterly Essay.

His work appears regularly in the Age, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Literary Review. He is a regular contributor of the Australian edition of the Spectator. He has also written extensively about theatre, film and television.

Past Events

Meanland: Reading in a time of change

Marieke Hardy, Margaret Simons, Sophie Cunningham, Peter Craven, Sherman Young

Past event

25 Feb

God-Bothering: An Australian Literary Review Discussion

Stephen Romei, Gerard Windsor, Peter Craven

Past event

6 Aug

Critical Failure

Book Criticism

Peter Craven, Peter Mares, Gideon Haigh, Hilary McPhee, Rebecca Starford

Past event

7 Sep

Australian Literature 101

Patrick White: Voss

Peter Craven, Ramona Koval

Past event

19 Apr
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