Robert Forster

Robert Forster is a Brisbane-born and based musician and writer. In 1978 he co-founded the internationally acclaimed rock band The Go-Betweens with Grant McLennan. They released nine albums during their career. A parallel career began for Forster in 2005, when he was appointed music critic for The Monthly. A year later he won the Geraldine Pascall Prize for this writing; and a collection of his journalism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009. Forster left The Monthly in 2013 to devote more time to writing his memoir, Grant & I. In 2015, Forster’s alma mater, the University of Queensland, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.