Events Powerful Stories & Contested Histories with Shankari Chandran in Conversation

Book tickets  

When
Thursday, 22nd February
7:00pm – 8:15pm
Arrive from 4:50pm
Where (see map)
City of Perth Library
573 Hay street
Perth WA 6000
COST
$10
Bookings
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Boffins Books is delighted to join Writing WA and the City of Perth Library in hosting Shankari Chandran in conversation.  
ABOUT

Join acclaimed Miles Franklin award-winning author Shankari Chandran (Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens) for a captivating conversation with Writing WA CEO Will Yeoman.

This event promises a thought-provoking discussion into the world of storytelling, exploring the nuanced interplay between powerful narrative and contested histories.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shankari Chandran is an Australian Tamil lawyer and author of Song of the Sun God, The Barrier and Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023.

Her next novel (untitled) will be published by Ultimo Press in 2024. Her unpublished manuscript, a political thriller called Unfinished Business, will be published as an Audible Original in 2024, and is the first in her Ellie Harper thriller series.

She is based in Sydney, Australia, where she lives with her husband and her four children.

 

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