Join this Canberra Writers Festival event on Friday 24 October. Image: Canberra Writers Festival.
Heather Rose is in love with love, Tasmania and fascinating female protagonists. She reaches new heights of passion and mastery of her craft with A Great Act of Love. Heather will take us back in history to Van Diemen’s Land, whisk us across the globe to the champagne vineyards of France and speak from the heart about writing through thick and thin. The award-winning and best-selling author of Museum of Modern Love, Bruny and Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here will join celebrated Canberra author Karen Viggers, in a candid, compelling and warm conversation.
Heather Rose is the Australian author of nine novels. Her most recent novel, Bruny, won the 2020 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award, Her seventh novel, The Museum of Modern Love, won the 2017 Stella Prize. It also won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize. It has been published internationally and translated into numerous languages. Both The Museum of Modern Love and The Butterfly Man were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The Butterfly Man won the Davitt Award in 2006, and in 2007 The River Wife won the international Varuna Eleanor Dark Fellowship. The series has been published internationally and shortlisted twice for the Aurealis Awards for best children’s fantasy. The memoir Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here was shortlisted for the nonfiction prize in the 2022 Indie Book Awards and the Tasmanian Premiers Prize in 2025. Heather lives in Tasmania.
The Details
What: In Love with Tasmania: Heather Rose in Conversation
When: Friday 24 October from 7 pm to 8 pm
Where: Theatre | National Library of Australia
Cost: $35. Buy tickets.
