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Guilt about the Past with
Bernhard SchlinkThe Age Book of the Year award ceremony precedes the Keynote Speech.
The winner of the 26th Age Book of the Year will be announced prior to Bernhard Schlink’s Keynote Address. A major literary award, its past winners include such luminaries as Don Watson, Thea Astley, David Malouf, Peter Carey and Elizabeth Jolley. During the ceremony, winners in the fiction, non-fiction and poetry categories will be announced and each book’s author will receive a $10,000 prize. From these three books The Age Book of the Year will be chosen, which carries with it an additional award of $10,000.
VENUE Melbourne Town Hall
DATE Friday 21 August
TIME 7–7:30pm
Audiences remain seated for the Keynote with Bernhard Schlink
GUILT ABOUT THE PAST
“What I like about law is that it is not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.” As a scholar and a judge, German born Bernhard Schlink has dedicated his life to law, and his writing career mirrors this dedication.
His narratives, among them the world renowned The Reader, tackle the presence of the past, our entanglement in the guilt of those we love, the tension between who people are and what they do and the shadow side in us all.
Schlink’s keynote address will cover the concepts of forgiving, condemning, and reconciliation, and problems facing literary representations of the past.
Proudly supported by La Trobe University
Bernhard Schlink's participation in the festival is proudly supported by the Goethe-Institut Australien
Information
Date: 21 Aug 2009
Time: 7pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Melbourne Town Hall
Code: 2192
| Cost: | $26.00 full $23.00 concession until August 1 | |
| | $30.00 full $27.00 concession from August 2 |
Reserved seating.
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