Join Louisa Deasey at Alliance Française for a discussion about her new book A Letter from Paris. Louisa will be In Conversation with Margaret Abrose about the post-war experience of Paris, for artists of the 1940s and 1950s. Margaret will discuss with Louisa about some of the research into the Australian-French connections that went into A Letter From Paris.
From piles of diary entries about Paris after the war, to how a tiny hamlet in the south of France became a bohemian artist’s colony for Australian ex-pats in the late 1940s, to a mistaken arrest at a hotel in Paris which was known as “Little Australia” for a time in the 1950s: Louisa’s research gives a unique perspective on France for those Australians who fled there to escape ‘conformity’ after World War Two.
About the author
Louisa Deasey is a Melbourne-based writer who has published widely, including in Overland, Vogue, The Australian, and The Saturday Age. Her first memoir, Love and Other U-Turns, was nominated for the Nita B. Kibble Award for women writers.
