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Celebrate the 20th year of the Melbourne Prize with previous winners Christos Tsiolkas and Nam Le and the 2024 winner, Alexis Wright.
Launched in 2004, the annual Melbourne Prize rewards excellence and talent, inspires creative development and enriches public life by providing career development opportunities to Victorian writers, sculptors and musicians.
Join us to celebrate 20 years of the annual Melbourne Prize with this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature, which highlights artistic excellence in Australia’s first UNESCO City of Literature.
Be the first to hear from Alexis Wright, the 2024 winner of the Melbourne Prize, as they discuss their work with 2024 judge Christos Tsiolkas. Nam Le, winner of the Best Writing Award in 2009, will open the event with a reading from his debut poetry book. Guests will be treated to a complimentary glass of wine on arrival.
Presented in partnership with The Melbourne Prize Trust
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 28 November
6.30 - 7.30pm
Tickets
$29.00
Full
$20.00
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Additional Notes
The bookseller for this event is Readings.
Featuring
Nam Le
Nam Le’s work encompasses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen. His debut poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem was published in March in Australia, the U.S. and U.K. Poems from it appeared in Paris ...
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels – Loaded, The Jesus Man, Dead Europe, The Slap, Barracuda, Damascus, 7 ½, The In-Between - and the short story collection, Merciless Gods. Many of his works have been ...
Alexis Wright
Prof. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is the author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria, The Swan Book, and, most recently, Praiseworthy. Her works ...