A new prize to honour women’s writing (similar to the Orange Prize in the UK) is being founded by a group of young women writers. They asked me to speak at the launch of the prize, in Melbourne in early September. Stella of course refers to Stella Miles Franklin, the writer whose bequest has enabled [...]
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A review in the Sun-Herald today describes my essay ‘On Luck’ as “brilliant”. The essay is now included in an ‘On-nibus’ collection of eight of the “little books on big themes” essays published by Melbourne University Press in 2008. Another standout is Anne Summers’s excellent essay on the notion of the “lucky country” – a phrase [...] I am very honoured to have been selected to be part of this program, in which libraries across Victoria encourage people to read the listed books. Read more about the program here My essay “On Luck” which was published as a separate little book in 2008 has now been reprinted as part of a collection of 8 of the original “On” (Little Books on Big Subjects) series published by Melbourne University Press. The collection, an omnibus, is a real bargain: only $30 for the eight original essays, among [...] The Lost Mother by Anne Summers melbourne Universithy Press, As much as I love reading memoirs, I had grave reservations about reading this book. Its all very well to drool over someone else’s life when you don’t know them, have never met anyone they know and are never likely to. I was not sure about reading [...]
The Lost Mother has been well and truly launched into the world with great events in Sydney and Melbourne as well as smaller events in bookshops in Canberra and elsewhere. I will soon be posting photographs from these events on this site. In Melbourne the Governor General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC launched the [...] |
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