In Praise of Andrew McGahan
John Birmingham + Andrew Stafford
The Edge, State Library of Queensland
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Much acclaimed Brisbane writer Andrew McGahan - best-known for his award-winning novel Praise – passed away last February. Andrew Stafford and John Birmingham tribute Andrew’s work in a panel discussion chaired by Matt Foley.
#Artists
John Birmingham
John Birmingham has published lots of books. So many that he sort of loses track of them. He wrote features for magazines in a decade before publishing He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, working for Rolling Stone, Playboy and the Long Bay Prison News amongst others. He won the National Award For Non-Fiction with Leviathan: an unauthorised biography of Sydney. He started writing airport novels because they were more fun. His most recent series of books that improve with altitude are the Girl in Time novels.
Andrew Stafford
Andrew Stafford is a freelance journalist and the author of Pig City: From The Saints To Savage Garden, a musical and political history of Brisbane first published in 2004. Something To Believe In is his second book.