Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 16 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Across March we’ll be Reading the City; shining a light on the many ways we understand and talk about Melbourne itself. From the city as an abstract concept to the physical landscape in all its permutations, we’ll be hearing from visual artists and architects, policy makers and designers, novelists and historians. The City of Literature becomes the focus, and you’ll never read it the same way again.
Melbourne on the Page
Jason Steger will chair the event, with Andrea Goldsmith, Joan London and Ross Mueller explaining how they convert our buildings, lanes and streets into sentences, paragraphs and pages.
Featuring
Joan London
The Good Parents, Joan London’s most recent novel, was published in April 2008 to acclaim. It has since reprinted three times, was the winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary award and was shortlisted for the Age Fiction Book of the Year.
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year in 1986, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the Premier’s Award for Fiction.
These collections were published in one volume by Picador as The New dark Age. In 2001 her first novel, Gilgamesh, was published, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, as well as a host of other awards, and chosen as the Age Book of the Year for Fiction in 2002. It was also longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Impac.
Ross Mueller
Ross Mueller is an Australian playwright, winner of the New York New Dramatists Playwright exchange for his play Concussion. In March 2009 it premiered at Sydney Theatre Company.
He has been shortlisted for the Patrick White Award on three separate occasions, including in April 2009 for Hard Core.
He has been commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, Canberra Youth Theatre, Hothouse and ABC Radio National.
He has been an affiliate of the Melbourne Theatre Company and a founding member of Melbourne Dramatists.
Jason Steger
Jason Steger is a former regular panelist on ABC TV's The Book Club. He was books editor of The Age for 25 years.