Hours author on beauty
The theme of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 16 – 22, is ‘power’, and there are few more powerful literary figures than openly gay writer Michael Cunningham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours will deliver a talk with former National Gallery of Australia director Betty Churcher on the pursuit of beauty. info: Visit www.swf.org.au Photo: Richard Phibbs
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