Alan Hollinghurst -Sydney Writers' Festival Livestream

Sydney Writers’ Festival is Australia’s largest celebration of books and ideas, bringing the world’s finest authors and esteemed thinkers together for insightful and exhilarating conversations and discussions.

The Sydney Writers’ Festival Live & Local program offers a free livestream of Festival sessions to libraries and community centres across regional Australia to share directly with their audiences.

The seventh novel of beloved chronicler of English life Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings, takes a life span as its material.

From the perspective of late middle age, Dave Win reflects on his life, from his childhood through to the self-discovery on the theatre stage and his attempt to understand his Burmese heritage. As a delicate exploration of identity, race, class and sexuality over a lifetime, this novel hones the craft of one of the finest writers of our age with tenderness and pleasure.

Credited with bringing queer literature to the mainstream with his Booker Prize–winning A Line of Beauty, Alan reflects on the complexity of self-exploration with Georgina Godwin.