#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Jessica Anderson’s Miles Franklin winning novel Tirra Lirra by the River has had a profound impact on Australian literature. Join three writers as they tribute this incredible work of writing and celebrate the place of Queensland in Australia’s literary canon.
#Artist
Ruth Blair
Ruth Blair taught American and Environmental literature at the Universities of Tasmania and Queensland. She has had a long and passionate interest in Jessica Anderson’s fiction and first wrote about her in Island magazine in 1987. She is currently writing about the idea of the garden in Anderson’s novels.
#Moderator
Fiona Taylor
Fiona is the Chair of the Brisbane Writers Festival Board. With qualifications in Economics and the Humanities she has worked across both Government and private sector roles developing policy and implementing equitable program delivery strategies. She has had a long term voluntary commitment to the education arts and aid sectors.
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