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Sydney Writers’ Festival: Literary Legends — Clift, Hazzard, Harrower

Explore the literary histories of Charmian Clift, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.


Following her biography The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift, Nadia Wheatley contributed the afterword to The End of the Morning, Clift’s final manuscript, which was recently published more than 50 years after her death. Literary scholar Brigitta Olubas (Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life) joined forces with journalist Susan Wyndham to edit Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters, which reveals the deep and vexed friendship between two of Australia’s greatest writers. 

Learn more about these fabled authors’ work and writing lives with the scholars who are salvaging their stories from the archives, in conversation with Caroline Baum.

Tickets $20.00. Book online at SWF website https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/literary-legends

Or call the box office on 02 9256 4200

State Library of New South Wales, The Library Auditorium LG1.

Macquarie Building, 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney 2000