Michelle de Kretser
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. From 1989 to 1992, she was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review. Her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, won the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Her 2017 novel, The Life to Come, won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Theory & Practice is her seventh novel.
Friday April 25
1.00pm
60 mins
Halcyon Hall, The Continental
In Conversation
Michelle de Kretser
Moderator:
Fiona Gruber
Speaker:
Michelle de Kretser
Friday April 25
2.30pm
60 mins
Room Two, Sorrento Masonic Centre
Sometimes My Imagination Just Runs Away…
Moderator:
Rosemarie Milsom
Speakers:
Melanie Cheng,
Michelle de Kretser,
Malcolm Knox,
Jock Serong
Saturday April 26
4.00pm
60 mins
Ellen Grant Hall
Outside The Box
Why our writers like to experiment and play with form
Moderator:
Fiona Gruber
Speakers:
Dennis Glover,
Michelle de Kretser,
Jock Serong