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 of organisations including the Victorian Writer’s Centre and the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. As would be expected you can keep up with news and events via rss, email and twitter.

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

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 opened at the State Library of Victoria next year.

Edited to add a couple of links:

Official statement from the State Library of Victoria.

Announcement on the City of Literature website.

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UNESCO names Melbourne a City of Literature