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The recent death of Muhammed Ali has reignited conversation about boxing and it’s cultural significance. Four boxing enthusiasts, Arnold Zable, Phil Brown, Grantlee Kieza and Luke Stegemann yarn about the sport they all love.
Presented by Lock Stock & Barrel
2016 On The Ropes
Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable is a highly acclaimed novelist, storyteller, educator and human rights advocate. Formerly a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Arnold has worked in the USA, Papua New Guinea, China, and many parts of Europe and Asia. He has conducted writing workshops throughout Australia, and worked with refugees, immigrants, the homeless, the profoundly deaf, Black Saturday bushfire survivors, problem gamblers and other groups, using writing as a means of self-understanding and healing. Violin Lessons is his most recent novel.
Luke Stegemann
Luke Stegemann is Associate Publisher with Griffith Review and has had a varied career working in media, business management, education and interpreting/translation. He lived and worked in both Europe and Asia for some twenty years, returning to Australia in 2008 to act as editor-in-chief and general manager of The Adelaide Review, and went on to found The Melbourne Review in 2011. A committed Hispanist, he is the author of The Beautiful Obscure: Australian Pathways through the Cultural History of Spain. In his spare time, he works as a tournament judge and referee with Boxing Australia.
Grantlee Kieza
Grantlee Kieza is a prize-winning writer for The Courier Mail and Sunday Mail newspapers in Brisbane and has previously written for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegrah and The Australian, covering assignments in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the author of the bestselling biographies Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man in the World and Monash: The Soldier Who Shaped Australia.