Richard Flanagan: Heresies
ABOUT THE SHOW
Due to scheduling clash Richard Flanagan’s show at Brisbane Writers’ Festival has been cancelled. Affected ticketholders will receive an email advising of the cancellation and next steps. Please check your inbox and spam/junk folders.
A message from Richard Flanagan:
“With regret and apologies to Brisbane readers, I have had to withdraw from the Brisbane Writers Festival because of a scheduling clash with a concurrent Polish book tour. Disappointed though I am not to be there, I would urge anyone in Brisbane in October to attend what promises to be a marvellous festival of great writers.”
For twenty years, Richard Flanagan – the only author to have won both the prestigious Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes – has been capturing the vicissitudes of memory, morality, humanity and history across his acclaimed novels, essays, articles and speeches.
Heresies collects two decades of his remarkable non-fiction on everything from MONA to Salman Rushdie, showcasing the steel-trap mind and subversive wit of a national literary treasure.
PART OF BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
Michael Ondaatje is Head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. Michael is a prize-winning researcher and teacher and regular commentator on American politics. He is a recipient of the Max Crawford Medal – ‘Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities.’
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18 months and under free on the knee; all other ages must hold a valid ticket
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
Michael Ondaatje is Head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. Michael is a prize-winning researcher and teacher and regular commentator on American politics. He is a recipient of the Max Crawford Medal – ‘Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities.’
