The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

Steven Conte: Plodding - walking into fiction

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Steven Conte on Thursday 28 May 2009 at 6.00 for 6.30pm.

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Miles Franklin Jill Roe Steven Conte was the inaugural winner of the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction last year with his debut novel, The Zookeeper's War. A story of passion and sacrifice, Conte's novel tells of an Australian woman and her German husband who maintain a zoo in Berlin during the final months of World War II. In a city battered by war, tensions mount: nothing, and no one, it seems, can be trusted.

'For its command of engrossing plot and vivid historical setting, for the ethical seriousness that informs its every incident and entanglement, for the freshness and vivacity of a new voice - the judges recommend Steven Conte's The Zookeeper's War'.

[Judging panel comments, Prime Minister's Literary Award]

Bookings by Tuesday 26 May to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

Wines by J & J Wines of McLaren Vale