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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Charmed lives begin to seem more like a curse in these brilliant novels of class and privilege. From Singapore’s expat community to the Greek island of Lesvos, these books are a world tour into private lives, rich in irony, insight and observations of human nature.
Venue update: please note this event will now be held in Auditorium 2.
#Artists
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of five novels, including the international bestseller Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows which was a Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick in 2018. She has held fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University, where she also completed her PhD in South Asian diaspora writing. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar India, Refinery29 and Salon.com, among other publications.
Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins is an award-winning writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her most recent novel is Lioness (Bloomsbury, 2023). Other books include the Women’s Prize longlisted The Forrests, Novel About My Wife, and the short story collection Not Her Real Name.
She also writes for theatre, film and television, including the original play The Made and an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. With director Alison Maclean she co-wrote the feature film The Rehearsal, adapted from Eleanor Catton’s novel.
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