[Watch] Nell Zink: Sister Europe

Watch literary icon Nell Zink bring the hedonistic spirit of a big night out in Berlin to Melbourne as she discusses her seventh much-acclaimed novel, Sister Europe, with host Jaclyn Crupi.

In this dazzling satire of modern life, an eclectic cast of characters gathers at a tedious literary award ceremony in Berlin. Over the course of the evening, their assumptions, foibles and irrepressible humanity are slowly brought to light.  

A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and the celebrated author of Avalon, Doxology and Nicotine, among others, Nell Zink is widely hailed as a singular voice in literary fiction. In a Melbourne first, she took to the stage at The Wheeler Centre to discuss her sharp and tightly wrought new novel, Sister Europe, and its animating themes: loneliness and the possibility of transcending it, the tension between old and new ideas and the challenge of defining one’s identity in an increasingly complex world.

 

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Originally presented on 3 of March 2026 by The Wheeler Centre.