Pivotal Moments

Sometimes we know we are making life-changing decisions. On other occasions, the impact of our decisions is revealed retrospectively. In their books The Bridge and Invented Lives, Enza Gandolfo and Andrea Goldsmith explore the way one key choice can change a life’s trajectory. In Invented Lives, a chance encounter brings Soviet exile Galina to Australia and a life of foreign freedom. The folly of youth has devastating consequences in the profoundly moving The Bridge.

Chair: Natasha Cica

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Enza Gandolfo is a Melbourne writer, academic and editor. Her first novel, Swimming (2009), was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and her second novel, The Bridge, was published in 2018.

Andrea Goldsmith is a celebrated author whose books have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

Dr Natasha Cica is the founding Director of Kapacity.org.

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