Fuller’s
Reigning Miles Franklin Award winner, Steven Carroll, talks at Fullers Bookshop Wednesday May 6th at 6pm
The 2008 winner of Australia’s most esteemed literary prize, The Miles Franklin Award, will be in Hobart to talk about his new book on Wednesday, May 6th at 6pm at Fullers Bookshop.
Steven Carroll, who also writes non fiction book reviews for The Age newspaper, will be speaking about his latest book The Lost Life – set in the enclosed world of an English village one Autumn, it tells the story of two young lovers who witness the poet TS Eliot and his muse bury a mystrious tin.
Carroll, author of seven published novels before The Lost Life, has been critically acclaimed for his lyrical prose and incandescent story telling.
The Miles Franklin Award, which was created from a bequest of Stella Miles Franklin, best known for writing the Australian classic, My Brilliant Career, annually rewards a writer for ‘the best published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’.
The 2009 nominees for the Miles Franklin award include Richard Flanagan for Wanting, Tim Winton for Breath and Christos Tsiolkas for The Slap. The winner will be announced on June 18th at a gala dinner at the NSW State Library.
Everyone is welcome to attend the Fullers event and hear Steven Carroll talk.
