On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers

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A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser. 'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony country where I would never feel at home.' In this powerful and exhilarating essay on Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in engaging with a writer's work. She illuminates the precision of Hazzard's electrifying prose, and celebrates the intelligence, wit and fierce humanity of her fiction.

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Michelle de Kretser is the award-winning author of several novels, including The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case and The Lost Dog. She has twice won the Miles Franklin Award - in 2013 for Questions of Travel and in 2018 for The Life to Come.