Into The Wild
Robbie Arnott In Conversation With Astrid Edwards
Robbie Arnott’s fiction is steeped in the wild: women return from the dead as walking ecosystems; mythic birds circle the skies; the water calls to us. In writing these sumptuous, near-sentient landscapes, he grapples with our most wrenching and necessary questions: eco-grief, stolen land and human frailty.
Join Robbie Arnott for this intimate discussion about his abiding love for the natural world and how he brings it to life on the page.
Artist
ROBBIE ARNOTT’S acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Rain Heron (2020), won the Age Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award. He lives in Hobart.
Moderator
ASTRID EDWARDS is a bibliophile. When not reading, she is also a teacher, interviewer and occasional judge of literary prizes.