Patrick deWitt

27 Feb 2024


We’re thrilled to announce our event with Patrick deWitt, the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Librarianist, French Exit and The Sisters Brothers.

6:00pm, Tuesday 27 February 2024
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, South Brisbane 4101

With his previous novels deWitt established himself as one of contemporary literature’s most sophisticated and unpredictable ironists. The Librarianist cements his reputation as a keen observer of human nature, with a penchant for writing characters as realistic as they are idiosyncratic. A melancholy reflection on love and loneliness that nevertheless sparkles with deWitt’s signature epigrams, The Librarianist is a gorgeous book by a writer at the top of his game, and Bob Comet is a character you’ll not soon forget.

Patrick deWitt will be in conversation with Myles McGuire, who like Bob is an old man and former librarian.

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