PUBLIC LECTURE: A JOURNEY TO ARMENIA

A JOURNEY TO ARMENIA —

West Australian award-winning writer Joan London will speak of the writing of her internationally acclaimed novel, 'Gilgamesh', in which she traces the journey of a young woman raised on a Group Settlement farm in the South West to Armenia in 1939, a journey which she makes herself nearly sixty years later.

Joan London's two collections of stories both won national and West Australian awards. Her first novel, 'Gilgamesh' won The Age Book of the Year for Fiction in 2002 and has been published internationally to wide critical acclaim. ˆ'The New Dark Age', her collected stories, was published in 2004.

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