The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb
, which drew on his father’s experience as a Japanese prisoner of war, won the 2014 Booker prize and is about to become a TV series starring, is on the shortlist of this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction , having also been shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina Étranger, a prize for novels.
I think because of my mother reading it to me. She loved it and I loved her. We lived in a very remote, small mining village full of postwar refugees in the middle of a great rainforest, rain and rivers everywhere. The idea of a river joining very different people, of people having homes in the wild woods… it all seemed somehow familiar. She didn’t skimp the more difficult language or chapters – the mystery of it seemed the mystery of the world beyond.
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