Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 22 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Shaun Micallef, Australia’s pre-eminent comic renaissance man, turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces Preincarnate, a novel of such breathtaking brilliance that if Patrick White were alive today he’d hurl his own typewriter into the sea and start a lawn-mowing business.
Shaun will be interviewed by Doug MacLeod.
Featuring
Shaun Micallef
MICALLEF, Shaun Patrick, LL.B.; Australian comedian; born 18 July 1962; married; three sons; ‘educated’ Sacred Heart College and University of Adelaide; admitted to bar 1984-93; threw it all away to join the circus. ...
Doug MacLeod
Doug MacLeod is a Melbourne writer of books and TV who has worked on Kath and Kim and SeaChange.
In 2008 the Australian Writers' Guild awarded him the Fred Parsons award for contribution to Australian comedy. (He has worked as a writer on shows such as Fast Forward and SeaChange, and as script editor on three seasons of Kath and Kim.) He left his full-time TV job in 2002 to focus on writing books for young adults.