#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Two of Australia’s most respected writers reflect on growing older, the realities and philosophies of dying, and explore the possibilities of old age. These works are funny, poignant, and timeless.
Note: Charlotte Wood will now appear virtually for this event.
#Artists
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is the author of ten books — seven novels and three non-fiction works. She has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, among others, and her features and essays have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Saturday Paper and others. She lives in Sydney.
Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is best-known as a writer of literary non-fiction (memoirs, essays and autobiography), but has also published two novels, several short stories and one play.
From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the ANU and the University of NSW, he presented the weekly ‘Books and Writing’ program on ABC Radio National.
His most widely read books, all translated into several European languages, are his autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace, the novels Night Letters and Corfu. His latest books are the memoir—meditations on love, friendship and mortality—What Days Are For, set in a hospital ward after a heart attack, The Pleasures of Leisure and now The Time of Our Lives on growing older well.
Kat Feeney
Kat has been a journalist and columnist for more than a decade, covering all aspects of news across multiple storytelling platforms; print, online, television and radio. At the moment, you can join her every weekday from 12.30pm on ABC Radio Brisbane and Queensland.
