Kate Grenville and Anita Heiss: Unsettling Australian Stories
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11 May
10:30
State Library of Victoria, Conversation Quarter
60 mins
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Award-winning authors Kate Grenville and Anita Heiss take a personal, political and cultural look at writing frontier histories and unsettling colonial narratives.
Grenville’s new work of non-fiction, Unsettled, is a deeply personal reckoning with what it means to be on land that was taken from other people, intertwining her family’s history with larger forces of colonialism and dispossession. Heiss’s recent novels, including Dirrayawadha and Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, offer powerful and engrossing stories of Australia's colonial past told through Wiradyuri eyes.
Together, these two extraordinary authors consider the intersections of history and fiction, how fiction can illuminate silences in the archives, and the challenges and necessity of truth-telling. With ABC Radio National’s Kate Evans.
In partnership with PEN Melbourne
Grenville’s new work of non-fiction, Unsettled, is a deeply personal reckoning with what it means to be on land that was taken from other people, intertwining her family’s history with larger forces of colonialism and dispossession. Heiss’s recent novels, including Dirrayawadha and Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, offer powerful and engrossing stories of Australia's colonial past told through Wiradyuri eyes.
Together, these two extraordinary authors consider the intersections of history and fiction, how fiction can illuminate silences in the archives, and the challenges and necessity of truth-telling. With ABC Radio National’s Kate Evans.
In partnership with PEN Melbourne
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