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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:00pm, Friday 1 March 2024
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, South Brisbane 4101
A Man Booker prize-winner for The Gathering and the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction, Anne Enright is a titan of modern letters, her novels moving with shocking alacrity between pitch-black humour and unsentimental reckonings with human nature.
Enright’s latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, exemplifies both her technical mastery and uncanny insight into her signature themes. Voiced by three generations of women in thrall to a brilliant and brutal man, The Wren blends verse with the poetry of the everyday, at once satirical and elegiac.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of our finest living writers in conversation with the brilliant Heather Zwicker.
Special should out to our friends at Adelaide Writers’ Week for sharing some of their artists with us.
#Artists
Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, and Actress, which was Longlisted for the Women’s Prize. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker moved to Meanjin/Brisbane in 2018 and intends never to return to a world full of winter and devoid of kookaburras: Canada, where she spent most of her life, as well as periods in Tanzania, California and Hawaii. She is Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland.
