Geraldine Brooks
ABOUT THE SHOW
For decades readers have been enthralled by Geraldine Brooks’ remarkable ability to render the past in vivid colour. With the devastatingly intimate Memorial Days, Brooks turns her powers of perception to her own story, chronicling the aftermath of her husband Tony Horwitz’ sudden death. Blending emotional intimacy with clear-sighted consideration of the rituals attending loss, Memorial Days is an ode both to a singular man, and the universal experience of love and grief.
Joining Geraldine in conversation is the inimitable Susan Johnson.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs. She worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and in 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University.
Later she worked for the Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. In 2006 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel March. Her novels Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord were New York Times bestsellers, and Year of Wonders was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages.
She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her novel Horse was the winner of the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award and Fiction Indie Book Award for 2023, the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for 2023, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2022 and the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2023.
In 2011 she presented Australia’s prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as The Idea of Home. In 2016 she was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to literature.
Geraldine Brooks divides her time between Sydney and Massachusetts and has two sons.
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Suitable for ages 15+
18 months and under free on the knee; all other ages must hold a valid ticket
