Chockablock full of exciting events for all bibliophiles and writers alike, highlights of the program include: a night with Eleanor Catton, famed author of The Luminaries and The Rehearsal and the youngest writer to ever win the Man Booker Prize at the age of 28; White Night Melbourne event, The Book of the Night, an event which will see audiences spend 12 hours inspiring 12 writers to write 12 chapters each for an anthology that will be published by The Wheeler Centre afterward; an in-depth discussion and birthday celebration with internationally revered author David Malouf (Remembering Babylon, A First Place), a talk with controversial literary writer Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and Big Brother, and an In Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert, who recently published her first novel in over a decade, The Signature of All Things.
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