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Sarah Passmore was joined by Morris Gleitzman to talk about his novels.
Gleitzman’s first book, The Other Facts of Life, started out as a screenplay which he turned into a novel. Gleitzman found he could get closer to the characters’ thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film and so began his career as a novelist.
His other books for children, to name...
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Sarah Passmore was joined by Derek Landy to talk about his writing career.
Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, Derek Landy, wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead". The first book of...
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Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010, she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her most recent novel, My...
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Sarah Passmore spoke with Emily Perkins on her writing.
Emily Perkins was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She grew up in Auckland and Wellington and studied acting at the New Zealand Drama School / Te Kura Toi Whakaari and writing at Victoria University and worked as a TV actor.
Perkins won attention when Picador (UK) published her first collection of...
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Andre Brink's early work has been described as 'searing realist fiction'. Hugh Chiverton asked if accepted the 'realist' tag?
One of South Africa’s most distinguished writers, André Brink was born in 1935. He began his writing career in Afrikaans, but when censored by the South African government, also wrote in English and was published overseas. His book, A...
