The Survival of Australian Writing: The role and authority of the literary imagination
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Room:
- Auditorium, Level 2
- UQ Location:
- Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- https://register.eventarc.com/32067/inaugural-fryer-lecture-in-australian-literature-frank-moorhouse-am
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Tanya Ziebell
- Phone:
- 3365 6315
- Email:
- t.ziebell@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- University of Queensland Library
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse AM will deliver the inaugural Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature on the topic 'The Survival of Australian Writing: The role and authority of the literary imagination.'
Frank Moorhouse has written fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and essays, and edited many collections of writing.
His novel Forty Seventeen was praised in a full-page review in the New York Times and was named The Age Book of the Year and 'moral winner' of the Booker Prize by the London magazine Blitz. The first novel in The Edith Trilogy, Grand Days, won the SA Premier's Award for Fiction and Dark Palace won the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Frank Moorhouse was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985. In 2013 he received The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The Fryer Library holds an extensive archive of papers from Frank Moorhouse, including drafts, notes and research material.
Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature
Established in 1927 as the JD Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature, the Fryer Library is home to literary and historical collections of national importance. Among its holdings are the papers of significant Australian writers such as David Malouf, Peter Carey, Thea Astley, Frank Moorhouse, Olga Masters, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and poet Bruce Dawe.
The Fryer Library's cultural and heritage collections are a valuable resource for teaching and research at The University of Queensland, and attract attention from scholars around the world. The Library is an integral part of the cultural heart of the University.
The Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature commemorates UQ Arts student John Denis Fryer (1895-1923), who provided inspiration for the acquisition of a small collection of Australian literary works that would become the Fryer Library.
The collection was originally under the custodianship of Dr FW Robinson, who throughout his career maintained a tenacious commitment to the Fryer, to the collection of Australiana, and the teaching of our national literature.
The Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature is the premier event in the Friends of the Library program and affirms the Library's ongoing support for Australian literary studies.
RSVP essential by Friday 4 December at http://bit.ly/FMoorhouse
5.30pm for 6.00pm start followed by a cocktail reception
(This event was to be held in July but was postponed and rescheduled to 9 December 2015.)
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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