
BWF presents...
Author/Editor Episode #06: Trent Dalton, Scott Forbes & Catherine Milne
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Catherine Milne + Trent Dalton + Scott Forbes
AE2206
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
This episode features another local and well-loved author, Trent Dalton, in conversation with his editor at HarperCollins, Scott Forbes, and his publisher Catherine Milne (who is returning from 2021’s Author/Editor series!), who worked on the structural edits. They delve into the editing and publishing journeys of Trent’s books Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies and his most recent publication Love Stories.#Series supported by
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Catherine Milne
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), a critically acclaimed international bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. At the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the book won a record four awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been published across thirty-four English language and translation territories. His second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies (HarperCollins, 2020) has also become a national bestseller.
Since its publication in June 2018, Dalton's critically acclaimed debut Boy Swallows Universe has become one of the most loved Australian novels of all time, breaking Nielsen Bookscan records to become Australia's fastest selling debut novel ever. In 2021, the Queensland Theatre Company stage production of Boy Swallows Universe saw such demand for tickets, the season was extended three times, resulting in a sold-out six-week run at 100% capacity in QPAC's Playhouse, seen by nearly 40,000 people.
Dalton is also a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year.