Speaker Series: James Joyce’s Ulysses with Gabrielle Carey
Date and time
Location
Haberfield Centre and Library
Michael Maher Room
78 Dalhousie Street
Haberfield, NSW 2045
Australia
100-year anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses first published in 1922 in its entirety.
About this event
Why was Ulysses so controversial? Who were the women without whom the book would never have been published? Why was it accused of obscenity and burned in England and America?
Why was it banned in Australia, then unbanned, and then banned again?
Join writer Gabrielle Carey in an exploration of the life and works of James Joyce – a writer who changed the course of English literature and famously predicted his book would keep people talking and the scholars busy for the next hundred years – a very accurate projection!
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabrielle Carey is a non-fiction author of ten books, including Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and my family, which jointly won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award. Her essay ‘Waking Up with James Joyce’ was chosen as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2019 edition. In 2020 Carey was shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her biography of novelist Elizabeth von Arnim, Only Happiness Here (UQP, 2020). After leaving her position as creative writing lecturer at UTS in December 2020 and becoming a full-time writer, Carey has focused on finishing her biography of James Joyce which is due to be released in late 2022.
