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'Richard Flanagan's closing address to the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival struck a chord around Australia. This stirring speech has been broadcast nationally on radio and television and published in Quarterly Essay 44.
'At a moment when the ferment of Tahrir Square has spread around the world to unsettle the status quo, Flanagan's provocative ideas resonate with a new mood and a new questioning.
'Above all, Flanagan says, we need to take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful if we are to find hope.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Originally presented as the closing address to the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival.
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 19 November 2011; (p. 31) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an international publishing deal for Torre DeRoche's self-published Swept: Love with a Chance of Drowning. Jason Steger also notes the publication, as an e-book, of Richard Flanagan's closing address to the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival. The address, also published in Quarterly Essay 44, is titled The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom.
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Bookmarks
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 19 November 2011; (p. 31) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an international publishing deal for Torre DeRoche's self-published Swept: Love with a Chance of Drowning. Jason Steger also notes the publication, as an e-book, of Richard Flanagan's closing address to the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival. The address, also published in Quarterly Essay 44, is titled The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom.
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