Monday, March 31, 2008

The Writers' Show

Writers’ Show - 40 - Audrey Thomas

Audrey Thomas has published eighteen books, both novels and short stories and has won almost every prize going, including the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, B.C., three times. Her body of work is the topic of English theses and research papers. Her books include Intertidal Life, Coming Down from Wa and Isobel Gunn.
Topics: her new novel in manuscript; how she works; the soft line between fiction and memory; stories of awards and publishing.
About working on a book for years: "Keeping the excitement up is like Viagra of the mind."

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