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Victoria’s new centre for books, writing, and ideas.

December 1, 2009
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Last year UNESCO named Melbourne a City of Literature. A flow on from that process was the creation of a “centre for books and ideas” which has come into existance as The Wheeler Centre.
Located in the south wing of the State Library of Victoria, the Wheeler Centre will be the new home for a number [...]

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UNESCO names Melbourne a City of Literature

August 20, 2008

I feel a bit proud. UNESCO has named Melbourne (my hometown) a City of Literature. 
Not sure exactly what that means for us, but we are only the second one in the world. Edinburgh is the other. It turns out that a big part of the bid was the new Centre for Books and Ideas to be [...]

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