In conversation with Krissy Kneen
Flames
Heritage Collections Learning Room, State Library of Queensland
Contemporary Storytelling / Fantasy/Mythology
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Contemporary fiction and mythology. Flames opens with a moment of transformation: ‘Our mother returned to us two days after we spread her ashes over Notley Fern Gorge.’ Robbie Arnott’s beguiling debut explores the messy, overwhelming nature of grief with a magical twist.
#Artist
Robbie Arnott
Robbie Arnott’s acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Rain Heron (2020), won the Age Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award. His latest novel is Limberlost. He lives in Hobart.
