Join host Geraldine Doogue and enjoy a refined and relaxed afternoon with a delicious high tea and readings from some of Australia’s most revered writers: Robert Dessaix, Kate Grenville and Robert Drewe.
ROBERT DESSAIX (INTERSTATE) ROBERT DESSAIX is a writer, interviewer, translator and broadcaster. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature at ANU and UNSW, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC's Radio National. In more recent years he has presented radio series on language, public intellectuals and great travellers in history. His best-known books, published around the world, are the autobiography A Mother's Disgrace, the novels Night Letters and Corfu, a collection of essays and short stories (and so forth) and the travel memoir Twilight of Love. His most recent book is Arabesques. He has also published translations of works by Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev.
ROBERT DREWE (INTERSTATE) ROBERT DREWE grew up on the West Australian coast. He is one of Australia's best literary writers. In 1983 his first collection of stories, The Bodysurfers, was published. It has since become an Australian classic, regularly reprinted, widely translated and adapted for screen, stage, and radio. His other prize-winning books include another story collection, The Bay of Contented Men, memoirs The Shark Net and Walking Ella, and novels Our Sunshine, The Drowner and Grace. Robert's latest book, The Rip, was published during the 25th anniversary of The Bodysurfers. He continues to live near and write about the ocean.
GERALDINE DOOGUE (LOCAL) GERALDINE DOOGUE is a renowned journalist, author and broadcaster. She presents Compass on ABC TV, Saturday Extra on ABC Radio National and has won two Penguin Awards and a United Nations Media Peace Prize.
KATE GRENVILLE is one of Australia’s finest writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River has been published in more than 20 countries. It won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. The Idea of Perfection won the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001. Kate's other award-winning novels such as Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History have become modern classics. Her latest novel is The Lieutenant.
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