Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia’s most celebrated novelists, is a writer who artfully pushes the boundaries of form. One of only a select group of writers to be awarded the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award twice, her highly anticipated new book, Theory and Practice, is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame.
Discover how Michelle makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain. She shares the secrets of her craft with Felicity Plunkett.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives on unceded Gadigal land in Warrane/Sydney. Her fiction has won multiple awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Folio Fiction Prize. Theory & Practice is her seventh novel.
Felicity Plunkett is a poet and critic living on Wangal land. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney and was Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for nine years. Felicity’s books include A Kinder Sea, Vanishing Point and Seastrands, and she edited Thirty Australian Poets.
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