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Presented in partnership by RMIT Culture and The Wheeler Centre.

Richard Flanagan: Question 7

When
Thursday 9 November
Doors Open:6.30pm
Event Starts: 7pm
Where
The Theatre
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RMIT Culture is proud to co-present Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan in a captivating conversation with host Astrid Edwards, about his hypnotic and genre-bending new book, Question 7.

Richard Flanagan’s masterful new novel Question 7 is his most personal book yet: a tribute to his parents and to his island home of Tasmania, and a hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory.

Beginning with Flanagan’s father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the atom bomb was dropped, Question 7 traces a chain reaction of events, from the turbulent romance between literary giants H.G. Wells and Rebecca West, to the intricate world of 1930s and 40s nuclear physics, to a young Flanagan trapped on a perilous Tasmanian river rapid.

One of Australia’s most revered novelists, Flanagan was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish.

He joins RMIT’s Astrid Edwards to discuss Question 7’s unique blend of history, fiction and autofiction, and its examination of the stories we construct about ourselves and others.