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In Conversation with Meg Mason and Laura Jean McKay at Belfast International Arts Festival

Date 12.10.2021 - 07.11.2021
Time 7:00pm (GMT)
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Overview

Belfast International Arts Festival is delighted to welcome two of Australia’s hottest literary talents Meg Mason and Laura Jean McKay as part of the UK/Australia Season 2021-22.

Meg Mason’s novel Sorrow and Bliss has been a word-of-mouth smash hit this year, a Sunday Times bestseller, and has attracted critical acclaim for its verve and wit in addressing complex issues of mental health in modern society. The Times called it “a raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book.”

Laura Jean McKay’s novel The Animals in that Country has been greeted as a vital and imaginative investigation into the relationship between people and animals in a world where an epidemic makes it easier for them to communicate. It was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize and won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia’s richest single literary award. The Guardian called it “filthy, fresh and funny; this is prose on high alert.”

Hosted by Alex Clark.