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Tanja Luckins
Tanja Luckins is a Melbourne historian and author who specialises in Australian Cultural History. In addition to The Games of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and The Great War (2004), she has published Go! Melbourne in the Sixties (2005) and Dining on Turtles: Food, Feasts and Drinking in History (2007). Her current research project is an Australian Research Council funded History of Cosmopolitanism in Australia, 1850-2000.
Awards
Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers / National Literary Awards, 2004
Co-winner, Inaugural Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award for Best Post-graduate Thesis in Australian History, 2002
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Gates of Memory, The 2004
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
