Speaker Series: Clarke with Holly Throsby in conversation
Tuesday 1 November 2022 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Clarke is a story of family and violence, of identity and longing, of unlikely connections and the comedy of everyday life. At its centre stands Leonie Wallace, a travel agent who has never travelled, a warm woman full of love and hope and grief, who must steer Joe safely through a very strange time indeed.
About the speakers
Holly Throsby is a musician and novelist. She has released five solo albums, a collection of original children's songs, two albums as part of the band Seeker Lover Keeper, and has been nominated for five ARIAs. Holly's novels, Goodwood (2016) and Cedar Valley (2018), were both critically acclaimed bestsellers. For her fiction, Holly has been shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, an Indie Book Award, two Australian Book Industry Awards, two Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and a Ned Kelly Award. Clarke is her third novel.
Sarah Blasko: From the classic debut The Overture & The Underscore (2004) through to the stunning synth-laden Eternal Return (2015) and Depth Of Field (2018), Sarah Blasko’s six-album run of genre-defining indie-rock and art-pop is unparalleled.
The subject of the ABC commissioned documentary BLASKO, which aired late in 2017 to critical acclaim, Blasko has written music for film, television, theatre and ballet. She has performed with symphony orchestras, string quartets, electronic duos, and makes up one third of the Seeker Lover Keeper trio with Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby. She has won three ARIAs (from 19 nominations), been nominated three times for the Triple J Album Of The Year Award (winning in 2009) and in multiple categories of the Australian Music Prize. The recently re-issued As Day Follows Night album, which took out Triple J Album Of The Year and the ARIA for Female Artist Of The Year at the time, went on to achieve platinum status and be listed at #19 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.
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