The MHM Social Club guest speaker Leah Kaminksy, physician and award-winning writer, will be giving a lecture on ‘Bearing Witness through Fiction’.
Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the prestigious Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award (Vintage Australia 2015, Harper Perennial US 2016).
We’re all Going to Die has been described as ‘a joyful book about death’ (Harper Collins, 2016). She edited Writer MD (Knopf US, starred on Booklist) and co-authored Cracking the Code (Vintage 2015). Stitching Things Together was a finalist in the Anne Elder Award. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Her second novel The Hollow Bones (Vintage) is forthcoming in June 2019.
Date: July 12, 2018
Start Time: 11:00 am
Event Type: Public Lecture
Cost: By donation
Venue: Melbourne Holocaust Museum
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13-15 Selwyn St
Elsternwick 3185
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