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Michelle de Kretser (photo credit Joy Lai)
Malcolm Knox (photo credit Patrick Cummins)

Michelle de Kretser: Theory & Practice

Fiction, essay and memoir meld in this Stella prize winner

Michelle de Kretser (photo credit Joy Lai)
Malcolm Knox (photo credit Patrick Cummins)
Thursday 18 September 2025
6-7pm
Event Code: SL1
State Library of NSW, Library Auditorium
ConversationFictionAustralian FictionFeminism

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It’s 1986 and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman has arrived in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf.

Join Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and the winner of the 2025 Stella Prize, to uncover her latest genre-bending work Theory & Practice. Unpacking jealousy and desire, truth and shame, Michelle asks what a novel can achieve in conversation with Malcolm Knox.

“One of the living masters of the art of fiction.”
— Max Porter

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State Library of NSW, Library Auditorium
Macquarie Street Wing, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
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