AWW23: Novel Worlds - Gail Jones & Brigitta Olubas
Chair: Mireille Juchau
\nGail Jones' and Shirley Hazzard\u2019s hypnotic novels\xa0describe how moments of historical intensity\xa0can shift and slow time;\xa0both attend to how art can transfigure a life.\xa0In her brilliant biography, Brigitta Olubas surveys Hazzard\u2019s life and work with a novelist\u2019s eye for the private and intimate. Jones\u2019\xa0Salonika Burning\xa0is\xa0set\xa0in Greece where four historical figures undertake caring at the frontlines of war. What craft and style decisions establish these fraught encounters? Join highly acclaimed biographer Olubas and award-winning novelist Jones in conversation with Mireille Juchau.
\nEvent details: Sat 04 Mar, 2:30pm on the West Stage