Arnold Zable shares a moving and poetic portrait of two fighters; a champion boxer and his mother, lost to madness.
This event has been updated since the BWF Program went to print. Please note, the revised details of this session are Sat 10 September, 4pm – 5pm, The Heritage Room, SLQ.
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 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.
