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The first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of "shocking wisdom" and "intellectual thrill" (The New Yorker). Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, has drawn, with great subtlety and understanding, on her fiction (itself largely based on Hazzard's own experience), on an extensive archive of letters, d...

Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.Hazzard's oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second...

The first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of "shocking wisdom" and "intellectual thrill" (The New Yorker). In Shirley Hazzard: The Writing Life, the extraordinary life of the award-winning writer is captured in full for the first time. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, draws on Hazzard's fiction-which itself drew on her lived experiences-as well as her extensive archive of letters, ...

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Shirley Hazzard lived around the world: in Hong Kong, Wellington, New Zealand, New York, Naples and Capri and her writing - cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - reflects her life. Her body of work is small but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction, Brigitta Olubas tells the story of a girl from ...

`Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently, now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it' - Sarah Waters Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Hazzard lived around the world: in Hong Kong, Wellington, New Zealand, New York, Naples and Capri and her writing -- cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing -- reflects her life. Her body of work is small but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable, fr...

Shirley Hazzard, one of the great English language writers, author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus and Greene on Capri, winner of the National Book Award, the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for The Booker and The Women's Prize for Fiction was loved by readers and praised by other writers: 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently, now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it' Sarah Waters`H...

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