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[Conversation with Mona Brand] [sound recording] / [interviewer : Hazel de Berg]
Bib ID 459809
Format AudioAudio
Author Brand, Mona
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1967 July 1. 
1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.) 
Series Hazel de Berg collection ; DeB 265,266 
Summary

Brand speaks about her paternal and maternal grandfathers ; her unusual childhood ; the influence of William Fern Wannan on her writing ; various jobs held ; the publication of her first book of poems "Wheel and Bobbin" ; her writing in other forms ; ; her first play "Here under heaven" ; her visit to Moscow in 1953 and writers she met in the Soviet Union ; the production of her play "Better a millstone" by the Sydney New Theatre ; reasons for living in Vietnam during 1956-57 ; source of her material ; her method of work; her thoughts on the future of Australian theatre ; Brand reads an extract from her play "Strangers in the land" ; she also reads the poems : "Lass of love", "Sonnet for Sunday".

Notes

Transcript available (21 p.)

Subjects Brand, Mona - Interviews.  |  Brand, Mona. - Better a millstone.  |  Brand, Mona. - Here under heaven.  |  Brand, Mona. - Wheel and bobbin.  |  Australian poetry.  |  Women dramatists - Australia - Interviews.  |  Women poets - Australia - Interviews.  |  Poetry - Readings.
Other Authors De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984
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Details Collect From
ORAL TRC 1/265,266 Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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