
Susan Johnson on Love and Other Brisbane Catastrophes
Susan Johnson + Matthew Condon
Queensland Terrace, slq
Main Festival
BWF031
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Brisbane-based Susan Johnson is the master of vivisecting affairs of the heart. From her first novel, Messages from Chaos, to her devastating new memoir, Aphrodite’s Breath, Johnson’s work feels like she’s eavesdropped on the reader’s own life. But book after book, she faces the same question – how much of this is based on her own life? Curated by Matthew Condon.
#Artists
Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson is the author of twelve books: three non-fiction books, On Beauty and A Better Woman, and a new memoir about living on Kythera, Greece, with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, Aphrodite's Breath: A Mother and Daughter's Greek Island Adventure. Her eight novels are published in Australia and in Europe, the UK and US, and The Landing (2015) was published in Greek translation. Her ninth novel, From Where I Fell (2021) was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Award. She has lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and most recently in Greece. She currently lives in Brisbane.
Matthew Condon
Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist, writer and podcaster. His novels include The Motorcycle Café, The Pillow Fight and The Trout Opera. He is also the author of the bestselling Three Crooked Kings trilogy, an investigation into Queensland police and political corruption. In 2019 he was awarded an OAM for services to the community. He is a senior writer for The Australian.