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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:30pm, Monday 11 March 2024
Concert Hall, Old Museum Brisbane
480 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD
We’re rounding out a banner season for BWF by bringing one of the biggest books of 2023 to Brisbane. Taking the literary world by storm, Rebecca F. Kuang’s Yellowface is an absurdist comedy-thriller to die for.
June Hayward is nobody, the author of a blink-and-you-missed-it novel. Athena Liu is a star on the cusp of supernova. So when Athena dies in a freak accident, June does what any envious friend would do in her position — steals the dead woman’s manuscript, passes it off as her own, and reinverts herself as Juniper Song, the ethnically ambiguous toast of the publishing industry.
Outlandish, irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny, Yellowface is a withering pop culture satire, and Rebecca F. Kuang is a startling talent. She’ll be in conversation with the fabulous Mirandi Riwoe for ONE NIGHT ONLY. This will book out so treat yourself and book NOW!
#Artists
Rebecca Kuang
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
Mirandi Riwoe
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds. Her novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her short fiction and novellas can be found in the collection The Burnished Sun. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
