Club writers - Book Talk
Friday 2 July 2010, 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Nick Gadd will be stepping in Elly Varrenti’s shoes for this month only as special guest host for July’s Club writers – Book Talk session. Be prepared for lively debate with an opportunity for audience members to join in the discussion. Guest reviewers Jarad Henry and Cate Kennedy will discuss our featured book of the month, Siberian Education by Nicolai Lilin and translated by Jonathon Hunt. (Text release June, 2010)
Nicolai Lilin’s memoir is an account of a young boy growing up in a world that is strangely recognisable, yet different to anything we have experienced. Controversial, brutally honest and sometimes disturbing, Siberian Education takes the reader to a place no other writer has been.
Jarad Henry has worked in the criminal justice system for the past ten years and is currently a strategic adviser for Victoria Police. He has a degree in Criminology, is a proficient public speaker and is a regular presenter at conferences, forums and seminars on crime trends. Head Shot, a murder mystery inspired by Melbourne’s gangland killings, was short listed in the 2006 Ned Kelly Awards for Best First Crime Novel. Blood Sunset is his second book and focuses on the street sex trade in St Kilda. It was short listed in the 2006 Australian Vogel Awards and in the same year won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Jim Hamilton Award. More recently it was runner up in the 2008-09 Summer Read Program. He lives in Melbourne and is currently working on his third novel, Pink Tide.
Cate Kennedy has won several awards for her short fiction and her 2006 collection Dark Roots was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Gold Medal and the Queensland Premier’s Awards. Her stories have appeared in publications as diverse as The Big Issue and The New Yorker. Her most recent work is a novel, The World Beneath, published by Scribe in September 2009. She is an experienced workshop leader who has also worked as a fiction judge, writer-in-residence, mentor and editor.
Nick Gadd’s first novel, Ghostlines, published by Scribe won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 2007 and a Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction in 2009. He currently teaches Novel in the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Box Hill TAFE.
This is a partnered event with The Wheeler Centre.
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Pricing
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Venue
VWC
The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne