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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... vol. 6 no. 1 February 2019 of Writers in Conversation est. 2014 Writers in Conversation
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* Contents derived from the 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Reinventing Lives : A Conversation with Steven Carroll, Gillian Dooley (interviewer), single work interview

'Steven Carroll is the author of twelve novels, including two series; one based around his family background in Glenroy in suburban Melbourne, and the other inspired by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.

'I have admired Steven’s work ever since I reviewed The Time We Have Taken, his 2007 Miles Franklin Award winning novel, for the very first issue of Transnational Literature. This was the third of the ‘Glenroy’ novels – there are now six in that series, the latest being The Year of the Beast (2019), based on the experiences of his grandmother in Melbourne in 1917.

'Recently, when catching up on some long-overdue reading, I picked up A World of Other People (2013), the second of the Eliot novels, to discover that, although it is never made explicit in the book, the heroine is a reinvented version of another of my favourite writers, Iris Murdoch. I immediately decided it was time to travel to Melbourne (on the Overland train, which Steven’s father used to drive) to interview him.

'We met in late January 2019 in bustling Lygon Street, Carlton, where it was too noisy to record our conversation. We found a quiet, shady table nearby on the Melbourne University campus and talked for an hour, till the heat drove us back to Lygon Street to continue chatting over a cup of tea.'(Introduction)

A Conversation with Yasmine Gooneratne, R. P. Rama (interviewer), single work interview

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