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Interview with Hesba Brinsmead, Australian author for children and young people [sound recording] / Interviewer: Suzanne Lunney
Bib ID 2001783
Format AudioAudio
Author
Brinsmead, H. F. (Hesba Fay), 1922-2003
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1975. 
1 tape reel : 1 7/8 ips ; 5 in. 
Summary

Brinsmead 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in the Wilderness; symbolism; writing pattern; rewriting; influence of poetry on writing style; Who Calls From Afar; unpublished story about Lake Pedder; appeal of her stories to girls; criticism; research; settings; liaison with illustrators; overall theme of her books; expressing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.

Notes

Cassette copy not made.

Recorded at the Zebra Hyde Park Hotel, Sydney on 11 June 1975.

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 32 leaves) 
Subjects Brinsmead, H. F. - (Hesba Fay), - 1922- - Interviews.  |  Authors, Australian - 20th century - Interviews.  |  Children's literature - Authorship.  |  Young adult literature - Authorship.
Other authors/contributors Lunney, Suzanne

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