Life is a Brief Affair

Two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Alex Miller is a giant of Australian literature. His latest novel, A Brief Affair, engages with one of literature’s most compelling subjects – unhappy women. He talks to journalist Jonathan Green about this deeply moving novel, the question of authenticity and the writer’s fidelity to imaginative truth.

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Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career. He left The Age in 2006 to edit Crikey. After three years there, he moved to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online’s The Drum. He was editor of Meanjin from 2015 to 2022. He now presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National and the ABC podcast Return Ticket. He is the author of Around Australia In 80 Days and The Year My Politics Broke.

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Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most celebrated authors. He has won multiple literary awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award (twice), the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and he is the recipient of the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life. His most recent book is A Brief Affair.

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