Bernadette Brennan
speaker
419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But yes, I think, Maggie, that emerging and unashamed love of Australia and luxuriating in the natural world is really one of the most startling parts of it and I loved it for that.
Most of the time, I haven't found it a problem.
And certainly on the Premier's Literary Awards, I've done a few years and the ALS Gold Medal over the years.
The ALS?
Australian Literary Society, which is the oldest literary award in the country.
And it's judged by academics.
So it's considered as, you know, a worthy peer review, if you like.
But the prize is only a gold medal, which is now a fake gold medal.
and $1,000, but it's a prestigious award.
Very rarely have I come across great conflict, but it does happen occasionally.
And one of the joys I find of judging is when you can sit down with your fellow judges, a little bit like this show, and thrash out the various books that you're thinking about and discuss why one of you thinks something and one of you thinks another.
And that is the real joy of judging.
And I've also found...
In every panel I've been on, the judges take it very seriously and put in the really hard groundwork effort.
So I'm a great supporter of the whole process.
Absolutely.
I actually have it on my list to read and I'm just enthused by listening to this conversation.
Well, that's exactly what she has done.
This mixture of an intimate, powerful family story mixed into a huge narrative of...
civil war, colonialism, violence, loss, love in, as you say, the country we know as Burma.
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