- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH003906
Hesba Brinsmead interviewed by Suzanne Lunney [sound recording]
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 350
- Date Range 11-Jun-75 - 11-Jun-75
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Description
Brinsmead, Australian author for children and young people, describes the influence of her Blue Mountains, NSW childhood; reading interests; blur between writing for adults & for children; Long Time Passing; schooling; early yearning for city life; wanting to be a writer; teaching course; studying journalism by correspondence; story planning, methodology; character development & plot; Echo in the Wilderness; symbolism; writing pattern; rewriting; influence of poetry on writing style; Who Calls From Afar; unpublished story about Lake Pedder; appeal of her stories to girls; criticism; research; settings; liaison with illustrators; overall theme of her books; expressing points of view in her writing; dialogue; slang; contact with other writers; admiration for writing of Rumer Godden; contemporary literature for young people; The Blue Crane; rejected novels; current projects.
- Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Finding Aid Timed summary (4 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 35 leaves).