#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Richard Flanagan: Heresies
In conversation with Michael Ondaatje
2:45–3:45pm, Sunday 11 October, Powerhouse Theatre
For 20 years, Richard Flanagan – the only author to have won both the prestigious Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes – has been capturing the vicissitudes of memory, morality, humanity and history across his acclaimed novels, essays, articles and speeches. Heresies collects two decades of his remarkable non-fiction on everything from MONA to Salman Rushdie, showcasing the steel-trap mind and subversive wit of a national literary treasure.
#Artist
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is Dean (Research) in Arts, Education and Law, and Professor of History, at Griffith University. Michael is a prize-winning researcher and teacher and a regular commentator on American history and politics in the media. He is a recipient of the Max Crawford Medal – ‘Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities.’ In 2026, the US Consulate General in Sydney formally recognised Michael for his ‘extraordinary and enduring contribution to fostering understanding of the United States and its history among Australian students and scholars’.
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