We are delighted to announce that Bruce Pascoe, prize-winning author of Dark Emu: Aboriginal Agriculture and the Birth of Australia will be in conversation with Marie Munkara, award-winning author of Every Secret Thing and Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea:
on Sunday, April 7th, 3-5pm
At the Berry Public School Hall
Tickets, costing $30, will be on sale from February 1st at the Berry Music Centre on Queen Street and at www.trybooking.com
Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong, Yuin and Tasmanian man born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria and has been the director of the Australian Studies Project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Currently Professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at the University of Technology Sydney, he has had a varied career as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. His book Fog a Dox won the Young Adult category of the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His most recent book is Dark Emu: Aboriginal Agriculture and the Birth of Australia which won the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year Award in 2016.
Of Rembarranga and Tiwi descent, Marie Munkara was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first novel, Every Secret Thing, won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territory Book of the Year in 2010. She has written two children’s books, Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, and another novel, A Most Peculiar Act. Her most recent book is a memoir, Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea. Marie is presently working on the TV mini-series for Every Secret Thing and her next novel.
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