Name: Dr Karen Lamb
Bio: Senior Lecturer, ACU & author of Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
Thea Astley – Iconic Australian Writer and Reluctant Feminist
Speaker(s): Karen Lamb Date: 2016-11-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Thea Astley – Iconic Australian Writer and Reluctant Feminist
Dr Karen Lamb is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and the author of Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather for which she was a co-winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-fiction. Thea Astley (1925–2004) stands tall among the icons of Australian literature. Over a 50-year writing career, Astley published more…