National Biography Award 2010 Lecture
30 November 2010
Hilary McPhee, editor, writer and former publisher, presents the 2010 National Biography Award lecture.
Hilary McPhee was a founding director of McPhee Gribble Publishers and a Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a founding director of New Matilda.com.
In recent years she has been living in the Middle East and Italy writing a book and articles about the region. She recently returned to Melbourne and her selection of new Australian writing, Wordlines, was published in July. She is now annotating the Burstall Diaries from the early 1950s and writing a sequel to her book about her life in books and writing, Other People’s Words.
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