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Dates & Times
Wednesday 20 October
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
The Edge, Fed Square
The Atrium Flinders Street Federation Square Melbourne Victoria 3000
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‘Written in elegant understated prose, Salley Vickers work probes the human condition, while encompassing myth, metaphysics and spirituality, and embracing the big themes of life and death, good and evil along the way.’ Daily Telegraph
The much-loved author of six modern classics, shares her thoughts in this very special keynote lecture.
In partnership with the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Matter of Life and Death series of events focuses on some of the big issues in life, art and ideas.
Featuring
Salley Vickers
Salley Vickers’ debut novel, Miss Garnet’s Angel was an international bestseller. Her fifth and latest novel is the acclaimed Dancing Backwards (2009) and her first collection of short stories, Aphrodite’s Hat will be published in December 2010.
Salley Vickers has worked as a dancer, an artist’s model, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. Her debut novel Miss Garnet’s Angel became a publishing phenomenon and international bestseller.
Her much loved works include Instances of the Number 3, Mr Golightly’s Holiday and The Other Side of You. Her fifth novel Dancing Backwards was published by 4th estate in 2009 and is delivered with the all the panache and elegance her readers have come to expect from her. Her first collection of short stories, Aphrodite’s Hat will be published in December 2010. Salley currently lives in London.