Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 29 March
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next.
Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
Featuring: Anna Goldworthy’s musical memoir Piano Lessons, Brendan Gullifer’s fly-on-the-wall look at Melbourne’s property industry Sold, Melbourne Prize for Literature winner Amra Pajalic The Good Daughter and Caroline Lee’s Meanjin serialised novel Stripped.
Featuring
Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy is the author of the memoirs Welcome to Your New Life and Piano Lessons, and Quarterly Essay 50, On Women, Freedom and Misogyny. Her writing has appeared in the Monthly, the Age, the Adelaide Review and Best Australian Essays.
Anna has won numerous prizes and scholarships for piano performance. In 2004, she completed a world tour performing in festivals and concert halls in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America.
Her solo CD, Come With Us, was released in early 2008. In that same year she collaborated with her father, Peter Goldsworthy, on a theatrical adaptation of his book Maestro, which drew inspiration from her early life.
Brendan Gullifer
After a working in journalism around Australia and overseas, Brendan was the Australian commercial representative for The Economist and the International Herald Tribune for 15 years.
In 1999-2000, he ran Australia/New Zealand for a US company called PressPoint, which had links to the New York Times.
More recently he has written for The Age, newMatilda.com and the Sydney Sun-Herald. He has reported for Radio National’s The Book Show. He has been a regular guest on ABC Radio’s Perspective program and co-hosted Published or Not on Melbourne radio 3CR in 2007 through to early 2008.
In 2005 he left full-time work and returned to university.
He holds a Masters degree in writing, as well as postgraduate qualifications in teaching English as a second language. He has undertaken further study at Columbia University, New York.
He now works in political communications.
Caroline Lee
Caroline is a performer, writer and editor. Her novel, Stripped, was serialised in 2008-2010 in Meanjin. Most recently she has appeared in Bell Shakespeare’s production of Phèdre by Racine, played the role of Venus in The Minotaur Trilogy with Chamber Made Opera as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and toured Australia in The Flood, an Australian Gothic drama by Jackie Smith.
Caroline appeared in Small Metal Objects in Cardiff with Back to Back Theatre, performed seasons of Care Instructions at the Malthouse and in Denmark, and toured the puppet show for adults A Quarreling Pair to New York and Rome.
Amra Pajalic
Amra Pajalic is an award winning author, an editor and teacher. Her debut novel The Good Daughter (Text Publishing) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award, and was also shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Writer.
She is also author of a novel for children Amir: Friend on Loan (Garratt Publishing, 2014) and is co-editor of the anthology Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014) – shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. She is funded by Arts Victoria to develop her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me.