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Celebrating Kate Grenville

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Due to extreme weather warnings for Melbourne, this event will be rescheduled for early 2018. The Australia Council for the Arts, the Wheeler Centre and Kate Grenville are terribly sorry for the inconvenience.

For more than three decades, Kate Grenville has trained a piercing, probing eye on Australian lives, myths and histories. As one of Australia’s most celebrated writers, Grenville is always original and always game.

With Lilian’s Story and Dark Places, she imagined the lives of social misfits and abusive, incestuous fathers. With The Secret River and her Colonial Trilogy, she reckoned with our nation’s violent history.

Grenville’s contribution to Australia’s literary landscape is immeasurable; her work has benefited other writers as much as readers. Her non-fiction books on the writing process, including The Writing Book, have guided the hand of many Australian authors. Her most recent non-fiction work, The Case Against Fragrance, blended memoir and journalism in a startling dissection of the perfume industry.

Grenville has won the Australian/Vogel Prize, the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In 2017, she adds the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature to that impressive list of distinctions. Join Grenville herself in conversation with Michael Williams at a very special lunchtime event at the Wheeler Centre.

Note: We ask that you please refrain from wearing perfume at this event.

Featuring

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other nove... Read more

Michael Williams

Michael Williams joined Sydney Writers’ Festival in September 2020, as the Artistic Director navigating the post-pandemic landscape going into the 2021 festival. He has spent the past decade at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne; as its founding Head of Programming in 200... Read more

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The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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