Podcasts about Melbourne Prize

For the final episode of the 2025 Winter Season, Mike talks with Helen Green, winner of a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-fiction, about Henry Green's Party Going. They celebrate the joys of the NYRB Classics sale, the mysteries of Australian Rules football, and the joys of this ensemble novel. Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, and her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I'll Remember This, and How to End a Story. Her latest book is The Season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nam Le is one of Australia's foremost poets. His short story collection The Boat has been republished as a modern classic and is widely translated, anthologised, and taught. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is his first poetry collection. Nam has received major awards in America, Europe, and Australia, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and transcripts) at thegarretpodcast.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christos Tsiolkas is one of Australia's most accomplished writers. His latest novel, In-Between, is an exploration of class, family and love in middle age. Christos is the author of eight novels, including Loaded (which was made into the feature film Head-On) and the international bestseller The Slap (which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, among many other honours). His work of historical fiction, Damascus, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.  In 2021 Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He has appeared on The Garret before. Listen to Christos discuss his previous novel, Damascus, here. About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and transcripts) at thegarretpodcast.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some musicians are as well known for their politics as they are for their music. Paul Robeson is one such figure. Robeson, born just before the turn of the twentieth century, during his life observed the parallels between the struggles of international workers against their ruling classes and the struggles for Black civil rights at home in the USA. Such sympathies led him to be viciously censored and pursued by the US authorities during the early stages of the Cold War. What can we learn from Robeson's contributions to radical politics in the twentieth century, and how might those lessons be applied to the present in which politics look very different? To help answer these questions we talk to writer, editor, broadcaster, and Walkley Award winner Jeff Sparrow about his book, No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson, a finalist in the Best Writing Award in the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2018. Jeff is known for his public commentary on Australian politics and is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. Link to the book: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/no-way-but-this-9781925321852 A performance by Paul Robeson at the Royal Albert Hall in 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FVaHIMgYw&ab_channel=MartyHermsen 

In our fourth episode of our Summer Series we revisit our most popular ep ever! Kate speaks to Literary Queen, Helen Garner. Helen Garner's first book, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977. She is well known for her novels, short stories, journalism and essays, and for several influential works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The first volume of her diaries, Yellow Notebook was published by Text in 2019, followed by One Day I'll Remember This in 2020 and most recently How to End a Story in 2021. Helen lives in Melbourne. Check out this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you brand new episodes from March 2023!

The Melbourne Prize Trust The Trust is delighted to offer the Melbourne Prize for Music 2022 & Awards. This year's program has been made possible through the generous and ongoing... LEARN MORE The post Simon Warrender – Melbourne Prize for Music appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Hello everyone, This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets. On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctor: Stephen Magnusson Listen to Steve Magnusson's answers to the questions below: Why do you transcribe? 03:47 What do you expect to learn from a transcription? 17:41 How do you choose the solos to transcribe? 24:21 What is your transcribing methodology? 33:08 Do you use any software? 45:45 Which transcription of yours is your favourite? 01:09:05 Artists mentioned in this episode: Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Dmitri Sostakovic, Charlie Parker, Charles Lloyd, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Brad Mehldau, Sonny Rollins a.o.   Stephen Magnusson is considered one of Australia's most accomplished, versatile and distinct musicians with incredible technique and an astoundingly beautiful tone. His hectic schedule shows that he is a delight to work with and someone that has ‘something to say' in the world of improvised music. He was given his first ukulele at 3, his first guitar at 6 and began performing at 10 on an electric guitar that he loaned from his schoolteacher. At 13, he started to study under the guidance of Gordon Pendleton at the Box Hill Tafe and discovered the world of improvised music. In 1986, he studied at the esteemed Victorian College of the Arts under the supervision of some of Australia's finest musicians – Tony Gould, Bob Sedergreen and Mike Doyle. Here he expanded his practice regime and playing. He joined various bands playing numerous styles and developed an understanding of different methods. But, his main focus remained, to develop and hone the craft of mastering the guitar. He travelled to Europe and lived there and after being appointed on the staff at The Academy of Contemporary Music (Zurich) in 1997, Stephen met his long time collaborator – Sergio Beresovsky. They began to perform regularly with Swedish bassist – Bjorn Meyer and in the July of the same year, Australian saxophonist Julien Wilson travelled to meet and play with the trio. After the first week of playing, they formed SNAG and produced a self-titled album (released in Australia ‘Hey Guess What'). After 3 years of living in Zurich, Stephen returned to Melbourne in August 2000. He entered the National Jazz Award at Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival, where he tied for first place amongst much controversy. At this festival, he performed with his trio featuring Sergio and Eugene Ball. This recorded result is captured on the CD ‘Healing Songs'. He has worked with many artists including Charlie Haden, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ricki Lee Jones, Sinead O'Connor, John Cale, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Paul Grabowsky, Vince Jones, Katie Noonan, Lisa Young, Christine Sullivan, Michelle Nicole, Martin Breeze, The Assumptions Trio, Megan Washington, Paul Kelly, Jim Black, Mike Nock, Barney McAll, Enrico Rava, Arthur Blythe and many others. As a part of the Katie Noonan trio Elixir, the ensemble won the ARIA for Best Jazz Album in 2011. In 2013, Stephen was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Outstanding Musician, and the Australian Jazz Bell Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album with his quartet MAGNET (with Carl Pannuzzo, Eugene Ball and Sergio Beresovsky). Stephen is currently concentrating on writing for his duo Boundaries with Frank DiSario, and trio MAG featuring DiSario and Dave Beck. He will also be completing the second release from MAGNET, SOM. You can check Steve Magnusson here: http://www.mag.net.au You can check Mirko Guerrini's music here: https://mirkoguerrini.bandcamp.com or here https://www.mirkoguerrini.com Mirko Guerrini is a D'Addario artist, playing D'Addario mouthpieces and reeds. Subscribe to this podcast and to my YouTube Channel. You can download this podcast episode, or any other episode here: Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../jazz.../id1574500923 Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1oQqf6mptnbh97XLi8Tcd6 Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/.../8b6f521b-d990-4c37-9a92   I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. I pay my respect to their Elders, past and present, and the Aboriginal Elders of other communities who may be here today.

Hello everyone, This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets. On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast, Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctor: Paul Grabowsky. Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor – and is one of Australia's most distinguished artists. Born in Papua New Guinea, Paul was raised in Melbourne. During the late 70's he became prominent in the music scene in Melbourne, working in various jazz, theatre and cabaret projects. He lived and worked in Europe and the US from 1980-85, during which time he performed with many jazz luminaries including Art Farmer and Johnny Griffin. He returned to Australia in 1986 and established a reputation as one of Australia's leading jazz musicians with such bands as his own trio and sextet, the Wizards of Oz and as musical director for singer Vince Jones. He was musical director of Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (a nationally televised variety show) from 1990-1992. He was Commissioning Editor (Arts and Entertainment) for ABC Television 1995-98. He has written the scores for over twenty feature films in Australia, the UK and US including ‘Innocence' (Paul Cox), ‘Last Orders', ‘The Eye of the Storm', ‘Words and Pictures'(Fred Schepisi) and ‘Shiner' (John Irvin). His television credits include the series ‘Phoenix' and ‘Janus' and the Emmy-winning ‘Empire Falls'. His works for the theatre include four operas and various multimedia works. His most recent opera, created for soprano Emma Matthews, ‘The Space Between', with libretto by Steve Vizard, premiered at Arts Centre Melbourne in September 2018. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, which he led from 1994-2013. He has won seven ARIA awards (most recently in 2019 for his recording ‘Tryst' with singer Kate Ceberano)), two Helpmann awards, several APRA and Bell Awards and a Deadly award. He was the Sydney Myer Performing Artist of the Year in 2000, and received the Melbourne Prize for Music in 2007. He was the 2010 Australian National University H.C.Coombs Fellow. He was Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival from 2005-2007 and was Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2010 and 2012. He is currently a Professor at Monash University, and director of the Monash University Academy of Performing Arts and the Monash Art Ensemble. In 2014 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to music and arts administration. In this episode, Paul explains his personal transcribing approach and shows how to profit from every transcription you make. He is also providing many examples of solos that have been significant to his musical growth. Among all the great things that Paul says, my favourites are: 'You won't ever sound like somebody else, because you are not that person', 'MIles can play one note and all of the sudden all the energy conveys there!' 'George Coleman is the Mozart of Hard Bop'. Artists mentioned in this episode: Gary Costello, Lennie Tristano, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter. a.o. You can check Paul Grabowsky here: https://paulgrabowsky.com.au You can check Mirko Guerrini's music here: https://mirkoguerrini.bandcamp.com Mirko Guerrini is a D'Addario artist, playing D'Addario mouthpieces and reeds. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. I pay my respect to their Elders, past and present, and the Aboriginal Elders of other communities who may be here today.

The winner of the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 is CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS for his body of work, which has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural... LEARN MORE The post Christos Tsiolkas – Melbourne Prize for Literature. appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his latest novel 7½ which explores what it means to be a writer and the role of beauty in fiction. Also, Rebecca Starford and Steven Carroll on the real life characters that inspired their World War II novels, The Imitator and O.

"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his latest novel 7½ which explores what it means to be a writer and the role of beauty in fiction. Also, Rebecca Starford and Steven Carroll on the real life characters that inspired their World War II novels, The Imitator and O.

Victoria's writers have the opportunity to enter the renowned Melbourne Prize for Literature and Awards – one of Australia's most prestigious and valuable literary prizes. Promoting Melbourne as a lively... LEARN MORE The post Melbourne Prize for Literature appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster, as well as her 2021 work The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith. The Trauma Cleaner was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non- Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction and the Dobbie Literary Award. It jointly won the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Wellcome Book Prize (UK).  CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation. This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from journalist and broadcaster Dr Julia Baird, investigative reporter Louise Milligan and Advertiser Deputy Editor Ben Hyde.  Julia Baird Dr Julia Baird is a globally renowned author, award-winning journalist, host of The Drum on ABC TV and columnist for The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Julia's most recent book is the bestselling Phosphorescence and her biography of Queen Victoria, Victoria: the Queen, was one of The New York Times' top ten books of 2016. Louise Milligan Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for the ABC TV's Four Corners. Her award-winning stories for ABC's 7.30 on the abuse allegations against George Pell led to the book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Cardinal Pell, which was awarded the Walkley Book Award in 2017 and won the 2018 Civic Choice Award for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Milligan is Irish-born and was raised a devoted Catholic. Ben Hyde Ben Hyde started as a cadet with The Advertiser in 2009 and has worked across various rounds including sport, general news, regional affairs, real estate and police reporting. He became Head of News in 2017 and was last year appointed Deputy Editor of The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yarra Libraries presents Andrea Goldsmith speaking on ‘Invented Lives’. In this Carlton After Hours recording she explores exile, character development and the importance of the right career (for them) through her latest novel. This is an edited recording, with some questions revoiced for clarity. ‘Invented Lives’ tells a story of exile- exile from country, exile at home, and exile from one's true self. It is a story about Russia, 1980s Australia, and love. It’s out with Scribe Publications right now, and you can find it through our e-book service, Cloud Library, here: https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/yarra/Featured Andrea Goldsmith originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her first novel, ‘Gracious Living’, was published in 1989. This was followed by ‘Modern Interiors’, ‘Facing the Music’, ‘Under the Knife’, and ‘The Prosperous Thief’, which was shortlisted for the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award. ‘Reunion’ was published in 2009, and ‘The Memory Trap’ was awarded the 2015 Melbourne Prize. Her literary essays have appeared in Meanjin, Australian Book Review, Best Australian Essays, and numerous anthologies. She has mentored many emerging writers. Yarra Libraries Recommends Invented Lives – Andrea Goldsmith (available through Cloud Library) The Memory Trap – Andrea Goldsmith (available through Cloud Library)

How do we become estranged from ourselves – and from the people and places that have moulded us? What’s the way back? And how can we begin again? These questions are at the heart of the new book from award-winning writer Andrea Goldsmith. Invented Lives is about a young Russian-Jewish woman who arrives in Australia in the mid-1980s as a refugee. It’s an affectionate portrait of 1980s Melbourne, and a sophisticated and engrossing novel of ideas – about exile, about multicultural Australia, and about the social, political and technological tides that impact our personal lives. Invented Lives is Goldsmith’s eighth novel. Best known for her 2015 Melbourne Prize-winning novel, The Memory Trap, and for the Miles Franklin-shortlisted 2003 novel, The Prosperous Thief, Goldsmith is also an accomplished essayist and superb short-story writer. At Montalto with Michael Williams, Goldsmith discusses her latest novel and her body of work.

Simon Warrender talks to the Sunday Arts Magazine team about this year’s Melbourne Prize.   http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_sundayartsmagazine/p/joy.org.au/sundayarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/276/2019/11/melbprize.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:34 — 9.8MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Simon Warrender – Melbourne Prize appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Anna and Annie have book awards fatigue!  We discuss the Top Ten best-sellers, including The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion, The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan and The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton with *that* new cover. Our book of the week is Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, a non-fiction book about how we think about the past, and its impact. Winner of the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award and short-listed for the 2019 Victorian and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the 2019 Stella Prize.  A stimulating read, we could not put this down.  Highly recommended. Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits: Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz

Gerald Murnane is an Australian author who has written over a dozen books, including The Plains and most recently, Border Districts. He worked as a teacher during the early part of his career and he is a great fan of horse racing. Murnane is the recipient of the Patrick White Award (1999), the Melbourne Prize for Literature (2009), the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Award for Innovation in Writing (2010), and a special award in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards (2007).

In episode eighteen of Literary Canon Ball we discuss Maria Tumarkin’s essay, No Skin.A finalist in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Writing, Maria Tumarkin’s essay, No Skin, is an exploration of traumascapes and our complex relationship with the places of trauma. From the holocaust to Princess Diana to Jill Meagher, Tumrakin explores this idea that she cannot seem to shake, wondering about portals and meaning and undeniable power.A writer and cultural historian and the author of four books, the most recent the 2018 Axiomatic from Brow Books, Tumarkin was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to Australia in 1989. She has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year, and NSW Premier’s Literary Award.Show Notes:No Skin by Maria Tumarkin: http://www.mariatumarkin.com/essays-2/2016/3/6/no-skin-melbourne-prize-for-literature-shortlist‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin: https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2018/june/1527775200/helen-elliott/axiomatic-maria-tumarkinInterview with Maria Tumarkin: https://griffithreview.com/articles/interview-withmaria-tumarkin/ABC Conversations: The Kharkov experiment: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-maria-tumarkin/9892170Maria Tumarkin: Axiomatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-FQnzW4JvwThis narrated life: https://griffithreview.com/articles/this-narrated-life/Recommendations:Fi:‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin‘The World Was Whole’ by Fiona WrightAn Unquiet Mind’ by Kay Redfield JamisonKirby:‘Ceremony’ by Leslie Marmon Silko99% Invisible: Articles of Interest podcastNeve:#poetry official documentary by Ariel Bissett‘Mating the Huntress’ by Talia HibbertQueer as Fiction podcastDrunk Lesbians WatchContact UsTwitter: @litcanonballInstagram: @literarycanonballFind us on Facebook at Literary Canon BallEmail: literarycanonball@gmail.com

Gerald Murnane, an author from Australia, has written over a dozen books including The Plains and most recently, Border Districts. He worked as a teacher during the early part of his career and he is a great fan of horse racing. Gerald Murnane was also a recipient of the Patrick White Award in 1999, A special award in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2007, won the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2009, and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2010 Award for Innovation in Writing.

Gideon Haigh is an author and freelance journalist. Since he began as a cadet journalist at The Age in 1984, fresh out of high school, Gideon's main subject areas in journalism have been in sport and business. For most of his career, Gideon has worked as a freelancer, and his writing has been published in more than one hundred newspapers and magazines around the world. As an author, he has written 32 books to date, with at least two more underway. The breadth and depth of his body of work is simply astounding, and I've been an admirer of his for some time. During the last few years, my main understanding and appreciation of Gideon's writing is through his role as senior cricket writer at The Australian, where he has become one of the most read and trusted voices in sports journalism. In late July, I met with Gideon at his home in Melbourne's inner-city, and was led into his writing room, which is also home to his extraordinary collection of thousands of books. Our conversation touches on why he prefers not to think too much about the structure of his books before he starts writing them; how he goes about writing daily cricket match reports for The Australian each summer; how he has managed to avoid becoming cynical about cricket, despite writing about it for decades; how he decides which writing projects to pursue as a freelancer with several sources of income; and how he found himself occupying a sort of public service role in late 2014 as the nation came to terms with the shock death of a young Australian cricketer. The conversation begins, however, with a small discussion about the purpose of this podcast. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades. He has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books, and edited seven others. He has been writing about sport and business for more than 22 years. His best-known books are Mystery Spinner, The Big Ship, The Summer Game, Game for Anything: Writings On Cricket and A Fair Field and No Favour: The Ashes 2005. His 2012 book The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; and Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. His latest book is Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket. Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club – nor, perhaps, wanted to. Show notes and links to what was discussed in this episode: http://penmanshippodcast.com/episode-40-gideon-haigh/ Penmanship on Twitter: @PenmanshipAU penmanshippodcast.com

Sep. 5, 2015. Contemporary fiction writers Tony Birch and Ellen Van Neerven, along with social historian Bruce Pascoe introduce readings and understanding into the diversity of stories that make modern Australia -- both fact and fiction -- at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Tony Birch is the Aboriginal Australian author of the short story collection “Father's Day” and the novels “Shadowboxing” and “Blood,” which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Both his fiction and nonfiction works have been featured in Australian and international literary magazines and anthologies. His recent collection of short stories, “The Promise” (University of Queensland Press), delivers 12 tales with a sensitive and humorous take on life, including the stories of a trio of amateur thieves left in charge of a baby moments before a heist, a group of boys competing in the final of a marbles tournament and two young friends obsessed with the mystery of a submerged car in their local swimming hole. Birch is currently the inaugural Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow within the Moondani Balluk Centre at Victoria University in Australia. He will be releasing another novel, “Ghost River,” in October 2015. Speaker Biography: Ellen van Neerven is a young award-winning Aboriginal Australian writer from the Yugambeh people of South East Queensland. Her recently published debut novel, “Heat and Light," received the David Unaipon Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Dobbie Literary Award. Her work has appeared in various publications, including McSweeney’s, Review of Australian Fiction, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, Ora Nui and Mascara Literary Review. Neerven lives in Brisbane and is the senior editor of the Black&Write! project at the State Library of Queensland, which supports and promotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and editors. Speaker Biography: Australian Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian who has written more than 25 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He has widely varied experience from his work as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker, lecturer and editor. Some of his works include the short story collections “Nightjar” and “Ocean” and the historical nonfiction books “Cape Otway: Coast of Secrets” and “Convincing Ground.” In 2013 Pascoe received the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for “Fog a Dox” (Magabala Books). His most recent nonfiction work, “Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?” describes in depth the land management and agricultural practices of the Australian Aborigines and includes excerpts from early explorers’ diaries that demonstrate the extent to which modern retellings of early Aboriginal history understate the sophistication of these systems. Pascoe is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative of southern Victoria. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6961

Sep. 5, 2015. Jeanine Leane and Tony Birch share readings and discuss issues important to contemporary life for Aboriginal people in Australia as reflected in their work, at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Jeanine Leane is a teacher, researcher, writer and Wiradjuri woman from southwest New South Wales, Australia. She holds a doctorate in literature and Aboriginal representation and is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University. In 2010, Leane’s first volume of poetry, “Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961,” won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry from the Australian Poets’ Union. Her David Unaipon Award-winning book, “Purple Threads," presents stories based on her childhood. Leane has received an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant and a Discovery Indigenous Award for her current research projects, which explore aspects of Australian and Aboriginal literary culture. Speaker Biography: Tony Birch is the Aboriginal Australian author of the short story collection “Father's Day” and the novels “Shadowboxing” and “Blood,” which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Both his fiction and nonfiction works have been featured in Australian and international literary magazines and anthologies. His recent collection of short stories, “The Promise” (University of Queensland Press), delivers 12 tales with a sensitive and humorous take on life, including the stories of a trio of amateur thieves left in charge of a baby moments before a heist, a group of boys competing in the final of a marbles tournament and two young friends obsessed with the mystery of a submerged car in their local swimming hole. Birch is currently the inaugural Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow within the Moondani Balluk Centre at Victoria University in Australia. He will be releasing another novel, “Ghost River,” in October 2015. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6959

A father drives his car across a highway and into a dam, his children in the back seat. They drown, he walks away. A writer sits through the trial of this ordinary man for the murder of his three young sons, and from this tragedy, Helen Garner creates a compelling story of Australian life and death: her new book, This House of Grief. What happened behind that wheel? Can it be explained or understood? As the legal process grinds on, she knits together a story of love, death and sadness that is impossible to resist. One of Australia’s most determined, compassionate storytellers examines why we can’t look away from what unfolds – and asks whether we should look away at all. Helen Garner has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards, including the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.