Lunch Hour Talks
ANNE BENJAMIN
Topic: Saffron and Silk – An Australian in India
Date: Thursday 21 March 2019
Anne Benjamin’s book opens with a wedding between unlikely lovers: an Indian-born development worker and a Catholic academic from Sydney who left the predictability of life in Australia to live in the South Indian city of Chennai.
Anne Benjamin is a Sydney-based writer, poet and educator. Her work in India included programs focused on women and their development. Anne will share some of her experiences living and working in India during a tumultuous period in its history.
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Nadia Wheatley
Topic: Her Mother’s Daughter
Date: Thursday 21 February 2019
Growing up in 1950s Australia, Nadia Wheatley had a sense of the great divide between her parents. She was to become a player in a deadly contest, dating back to their lives in Germany on the frontline of the Cold War. Her Mother’s Daughter is a social history, told through the lives of a mother and her daughter.
Nadia has been a full-time writer for more than 40 years and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2014 in recognition of ‘her exceptional creative achievements’.
