Sydney Event – Sleeping Beauties: Reviving Australia’s Forgotten Women Writers
Sleeping Beauties: Reviving Australia’s Forgotten Women Writers
A Stella Prize event presented with the State Library of New South Wales
Stella Miles Franklin once claimed that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is ‘neither preserved not developed, but only defeated’. Join authors Geordie Williamson and Jane Gleeson-White as they discuss the lives and works of the lost women writers who make up an important part of our collective literary achievements.
Geordie Williamson has been chief literary critic at the Australian newspaper since 2008. In 2011 he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia’s only major national prize awarded for critical writing.
Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World – and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet (2011), Australian Classics (2007) and Classics (2005). She blogs at bookishgirl.com.au.
Date: Wednesday 5 December 2012
Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Cost: Adults $10; Ticket & Book Package $40
For more information visit the State Library of New South Wales website.
