#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Thomas Keneally has been writing about Australia for fifty years, and he puts a lifetime of experience onto the page. Join him as he discusses the passions, memories and demons that drove his latest work and goes on a bloody good rant.
Thomas Keneally in conversation with Meg Keneally
#Artists
Meg Keneally
Meg Keneally is the author of Fled and The Wreck, and the upcoming The Last Queen (April 2023). She is co-author with Tom Keneally of The Monsarrat Series (The Soldier's Curse, The Unmourned, The Power Game and The Ink Stain), and co-editor with Leah Kaminsky of Animals Make Us Human.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally is a truly great Australian. He was born in 1935 and is one of the country's finest writers. As well as his many novels, he has published a number of histories including his three-volume series Australians. His novels include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Schindler's Ark and The Dickens Boy. He has won the Miles Franklin Award, the Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Book Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Scripter Award of the University of Southern California, the Mondello International Prize and the Helmerich Prize. He lives in Sydney with his wife Judy.
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