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Join acclaimed author Nam Le in conversation with graphic novelist Mirranda Burton as they discuss his ekphrastic poem written in response to Catherine Leroy’s exhibition One–Way Ticket to Vietnam 1966–1968.Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf, and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, which was published last year in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. Poems from it appeared in Heat, Overland, Paris Review, POETRY, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere.
Born in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Mirranda Burton is an artist living and working on Wurundjeri country/Melbourne, Australia. Mirranda’s first award winning graphic novel Hidden was published by Black Pepper Publishing in 2011, and later released under the French title Cachés by La Boîte à Bulles in 2013. In 2021, her second graphic novel Underground: Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia’s War in Vietnam was released by Allen & Unwin. Underground has also been contracted for a French release by La Boîte à Bulles.
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Ballarat Town Hall, Sturt Street,Ballarat,VIC,Australia
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