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So Everyone Sees Her Now Katrina Kell
What a way to end the year! I recently found out that my friend Katrina Kell ‘s PhD novel manuscript has been accepted by an agent! Katrina was one of the first people I interviewed for this blog when she’d only just finished her PhD project that was inspired by “Chloé”, the famous nude portrait in Young and Jacksons – the famous pub opposite Flinders Street Station (Melbourne). [Click here for the original post] (There is also a decent replica of Chloé in a pub in Wondai, a small town 185km morth of Toowomba!) I am allowed to say that the agent is based in NSW and that the novel…
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Capturing Chloe, Katrina Kell
Katrina Kell is the author of two YA novels Juice (2000) and Mama’s Trippin (2006), both published by Fremantle Press. She recently completed her PhD, her creative thesis, a historical novel inspired by the famous painting in Melbourne’s Young & Jackson Bar. Capturing Chloe traces Chloe’s impact on an Australian family during World War One as well as Chloe’s life in the aftermath of the Second French Empire and the Franco-Prussian War. I got to know Katy well because our postgrad offices were across the corridor from each other and we were often the only people in the ghostly corridor. Even though we’ve both completed our respective degrees, we still catch up regularly for coffee to chat…
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Profiles
I included questions from the Proust Questionnaire in my interviews after I read Ralph Fiennes’ responses to his in an old copy of Vanity fair and was shocked that we had things in common. Who’d have thought! The questionnaire, interestingly, was not invented by Marcel Proust, but Proust loved the game, and thought of it as a personality test – akin to today’s Myers-Brigg test. I only select 10 to 15 from the Proust list for authors to answer or ignore. After all, we don’t really need to know who is the author of the book to enjoy the text, or do we? Author Profiles and Interviews Yona…
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Author and Artist Profiles (2018-2021)
In 2018, I set up this blog with the intention of conducting interviews with authors and artists I met in my travels. The earlier interviews included questions from Proust’s Questionnaire, which was not invented by Vanity Fair nor by Marcel Proust. Author Profiles and Interviews Yona Diamond Dansky – Educator, Writer and Illustrator Alan Fyfe – T Daniel Geary – New Writers and the Land of Maybe Elizabeth Geoghegan – An American Writer in Rome Nicole Kay – The Tapestry Project Katy Kell – Capturing Chloe Sophronia Liu – A Shimmering Sea, 20th Century Hong Kong Vahri McKenzie – Creative Practice in Academia Sarah Mokrzycki – Writer, Researcher, Artist Rashida Murphy – Moving in from the…
