#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:00pm, Tuesday 27 February 2024
The Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, South Brisbane 4101
We’re thrilled to announce our event with Patrick deWitt, the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Librarianist, French Exit and The Sisters Brothers.
With his previous novels deWitt established himself as one of contemporary literature’s most sophisticated and unpredictable ironists. The Librarianist cements his reputation as a keen observer of human nature, with a penchant for writing characters as realistic as they are idiosyncratic. A melancholy reflection on love and loneliness that nevertheless sparkles with deWitt’s signature epigrams, The Librarianist is a gorgeous book by a writer at the top of his game, and Bob Comet is a character you’ll not soon forget.
Patrick deWitt will be in conversation with Myles McGuire, who like Bob is an old man and former librarian.
#Artists
Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General’s Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. French Exit, his third book, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Myles McGuire
Myles McGuire is a writer, editor and semi-professional conversationalist. After starting at BWF as a clown in 2022, he joined the team as Programs Coordinator in 2023. His writing has been nominated for prizes including the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award and the Peter Carey Short Story Award.
