Interview with
Arnold Zable

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  • Published 20131203
  • ISBN: 9781922079992
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Arnold Zable is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and memoir. In this interview he speaks about the process of writing, the place of trauma and the past in his work, and his story ‘The attic‘ in Griffith REVIEW 42, an excerpt from a novel in progress, which centres on the memories of a Melbourne woman looking back to her childhood in a Warsaw attic in the years before World War II.


 

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