Maxine Beneba Clarke in conversation with Alice Pung – Cultural Diversity Week

Celebrate Cultural Diversity Week in a special Harmony Day event with authors, Maxine Beneba Clarke and OAM Alice Pung.

Harmony Day and Cultural Diversity Week are the celebrations that recognise our diversity and brings together Australians from all different backgrounds.

Wednesday 19 March, 1pm to 2pm
Free entry. Booking required

A light lunch will be provided.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fifteen books, including the poetry collections Carrying The World, How Decent Folk Behave and It’s the Sound of the Thing, the bestselling memoir The Hate Race and the ABIA and Indie-award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil.

Her children’s picture books include the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike, and the illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

She is currently the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.

About Alice Pung

Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning author from Naarm. Her non-fiction books Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Growing Up Asian in Australia have been set texts at schools and universities around Australia, Asia and the US.

Her Father’s Daughter won the Western Australia Premiers’ Award, and her novel Laurinda won the Ethel Turner Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. One Hundred Days, Alice’s first novel for adults, was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award and has been optioned by Michelle Law for development as a film.

Alice is the current Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication. In 2022 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature. She is also the author of several award-winning children’s books.