Meet Jonathan Franzen

Meet the Author.

International bestseller Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels including The Corrections and, most recently, Freedom. A controversial essayist and social commentator, Jonathan regularly writers for The New Yorker, and has also published two non-fiction titles, How to be Alone and The Discomfort Zone.

His writing honours include the Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy’s Berlin Prize and the National Book Award.

Jonathan will join Richard Fidler to share insights into his reading, writing, life and eclectic interests.

As this performance is being held in an outdoor venue please feel free to bring a cushion and/or blanket with you. Please also dress appropriately for the outdoor conditions.

"No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen, is one of the most extraordinary writers around. As a writer, Franzen seems less at ease in the real world than he is in a heightened atmosphere of spooky doings and pending disasters." Laura Shapiro, Newsweek

"Jonathan Franzen's first two novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), marked him as a writer with a real grasp of our edgy, info-saturated historical moment." Sven Birkerts, Esquire

Duration: 60mins, no interval