AWW22 7 12 - Christos Tsiolkas
Chaired by Michael Williams
\nIn Christos Tsiolkas\u2019s first foray into autofiction, 7\xbd, his protagonist Christos declares he is tired of the lofty ambitions many novelists hold for their writing on politics, sexuality, race, history, gender, morality or the future. \u201cAll of them now bore me,\u201d he declares. Instead, he will write about beauty. His powerful memories of the past, the strange present in which he tries to write \u2013 surrounded by the magnificently evoked natural world \u2013 and the novel on which he embarks are masterfully woven together into one compelling whole.