2025 PROGRAM
Author Talk with Heather Morris
DATE:
Friday 28th March
LOCATION:
Darley Smith Building
COST:
$22
Heather Morris hails from a somewhat familiar New Zealand upbringing in a small rural community, part of a large family surrounded by several generations, excelling in sports, doing okay at school, and devouring information and stories. Heather indulged in her passion for writing with a scriptwriting course while raising a family and working as a social worker at a medical centre in Melbourne. Then, in 2003, she was introduced to Lale Sokolov, and the rest is history! It is a meeting that resulted in a screenplay and, secondly, in a book on Lale’s story known as The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018). She has since published three more Holocaust novels, and her latest book, Sisters Under the Rising Sun (2023), is set in a Japanese POW camp in Indonesia in World War II.
Heather is in conversation with Michael Brissenden.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.