THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 2024 | The Loft - 100 Boundary Street West End 4101 (Above Archive Beer Boutique)
6.00pm for a 6.30pm start | 60mins
Join us for the launch of Kári Gíslason's memoir Running with Pirates. Kari will be in conversation with the wonderful Nick Earls.
ABOUT THE BOOK
At the age of eighteen, Kári Gíslason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering meeting with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting ‘the Pirate’, a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work – only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leaving behind a debt he promises to repay.
Three decades later, as a father of two teenage sons, he returns to Corfu with his family. As he revisits his memories of the island, he begins to understand that this place has shaped the adult he has become, and that the inevitable letting go of his own children lies ahead.
Full of the colour and vitality of the Greek islands, Running with Pirates traverses the joys and challenges of parenthood, the fearlessness of youth, the debts of our past, and the stories we tell ourselves and our children.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kári Gíslason is a writer and academic who teaches creative writing and literary studies at QUT. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), which told the story of return journeys he’s made to his birthplace, and the novels The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015) and The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land (HarperCollins, 2017), which won the Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2018.
