AWW23: "The Magic of Shirley the Hazzard" - Brigitta Olubas

Chair: Richard Buckham


“The world likes to trace the author’s life in the novel but the
obvious isn’t always true. Something that was very close to you
and resembles your experience isn’t necessarily the deepest
version of the story… One feels for another person. One observes.
One imagines.“ Literary biography is either portrait or autopsy
according to one of the masters of the genre, Dame Hermione Lee.
In Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, Brigitta Olubas is both
coroner and portraitist. Meet the biographer as she reflects on
Hazzard’s own sense of her life’s work, which included four
novels, two short story collections, a peripatetic life, great
friendships with other writers and a long marriage to an aesthete
25 years her senior.


Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 9:30am on the North
Stage