Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 04 May
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Clunes Booktown Festival is an annual celebration of writing in rural Victoria that prides itself on championing literature. The first and only International Booktown in Australia, Clunes lives up to its mighty reputation once again as the Wheeler Centre presents Elliot Perlman in conversation with Michael Williams.
Elliot Perlman’s first novel, Three Dollars, won the Age Book of the Year Award – an auspicious start to what has been an extraordinary international career. His second novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin.
With The Street Sweeper, Perlman cemented his reputation as a novelist who explores the burning social and political issues of our time. ‘Epic is a word that one must use carefully,’ wrote the Guardian, reviewing the book. ‘But this is an epic, in scope and moral seriousness.’
Presented by the Wheeler Centre at Clunes Booktown Festival.
Featuring
Michael Williams
Michael Williams is the editor of The Monthly. He was previously the Artistic Director of Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has spent the past decade at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne as its ...
Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman is an award-winning writer of one short story collection and three novels. He lives in Melbourne, where he also works as a barrister.
Elliot has published the novels Three Dollars (1998), Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003) and The Street Sweeper (2011), as well as the short story collection The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming (1999).