Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma

Clare Wright and Matthew Lamb

Adelaide Writers' Week

Australian writer Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life.

But what if the facts contradict the legend?

Join Clare Wright in conversation with Matthew Lamb for this year’s Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture about sorting the legend from the facts.

Hear how Matthew grappled with this in his brilliant biography, Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths.

The announcement of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner will follow.

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Matthew Lamb the author of Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths (2023), the first in a projected two-volume biography. A former editor of Review of Australian Fiction and Island magazines, he has two PhDs, in Literature and Philosophy, respectively. He received the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship in 2016.

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