Violeta (livestreamed)

Sun 8 May 2022

Isabel Allende + Kate Evans + Melanie Saward

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Violeta’s life spans one hundred years and is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women’s rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and not one but two pandemics. Iconic storyteller Isabel Allende discusses this epic story of upheaval, as well as her writing about family, women and power.

Isabel Allende in conversation with Kate Evans
Introduced by Melanie Saward on behalf of QUT

This is an in-person event at State Library with the author livestreaming in on screen.

Event Sponsor

#Artists

Isabel Allende

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna and Paula. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-five million copies worldwide. She lives in California.

Kate Evans

Kate Evans hosts The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National (with Cassie McCullagh). She has a PhD in history and way too many books, and regrets neither.

Melanie Saward

Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. Her debut novel Burn was published by Affirm Press in 2023 and she’s also had work published in the literary journals Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, and has fiction published in the anthologies Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, and New Australian Fiction. Her first romantic comedy novel, Love Unleashed, will be published by Penguin Random House in August.