Kate Grenville’s ancestors were ‘the sharp edge of the moving blade’. Photo: Canberra Writers Festival.
Kate Grenville’s ancestors were ‘the sharp edge of the moving blade’ of colonisation through the Hawkesbury region – the subject of her bestseller The Secret River. Now in Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place, she reflects on the reckoning that comes with truly confronting the past and her family story.
She’s joined by Paul Daley, whose novel The Leap examines fear and violence in a frontier town.
Two years after the Voice referendum, this timely conversation is about non-Indigenous Australians doing the work and personally reckoning with the past.
This conversation, moderated by author Craig Cormick (Warra Warra Wai) will reflect on the role of non-Indigenous authors in contemporary writing exploring Indigenous issues.
Kate Grenville has published eighteen books. Her nine novels include the bestseller The Secret River (shortlisted for the Booker).
Others have also won international and Australian prizes, been adapted for stage and screen, and appear in translation.
The details
What: Reckoning
When: Saturday 25 October, 12pm
Where: National Library of Australia
Cost: $28 per person. Tickets available via Canberra Writers Festival.
