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Chateau de Lavigny
September 14, 2008
http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/
My time at this wonderful, beautiful, peaceful place ends on September 15. I have been living here with four other writers:
- Jean-Paul Barbe, France
- James Canon, Columbia
- Hilde Keteleer, Belgium
- Mariko Nagai, Japan
goodbye Rome hello Nimes
August 5, 2008
I left Rome and the BR Whiting Library on July 31 after 6 wonderful months based there. Now i am spending a few weeks in Nimes in the south of France staying with an old friend, Sue Howe and her partner Daniel de Rudder. After this it will be Chateau de Lavigny…
With The Tiger has been published
June 13, 2008
I received my first copy of my new novel With The Tiger just published by HarperCollins India.
What a beautiful cover!
Here’s the page at the HarperCollins India site:
Ljubljana, April 9
June 13, 2008
On Tuesday April 9 I took a seminar for students in the course on Australian Literature, at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of English , (3rd year undergraduates) . The course is taught by Professor Igor Maver.
Another great group!
Australian Women’s Writing at Budapest, April 2
June 13, 2008
Then on April 2nd i spoke with another exceptional group of students in the course on Australian Women’s Writing co-ordinated by Dr Ceclia Gall at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Budapest, Australian studies
June 7, 2008
April 1st in Budapest, i spoke at the weekly 90 minute long seminar in the “Focus on Australia” course at the Eötvös Loránd University (in the Faculty of Humanities), co-ordinated by Dr Dorottya Hollo, who also assisted my journey in many ways.
Terrific group of students, interesting questions and responses; they had been asked to read my story My Transylvanian Cousin – so it was interesting to disucuss that in this context!
Rome residency
June 7, 2008
At the beginning of February I began my six month residency at the BR Whiting Library in Rome, Italy, granted by the Australia Council.
I will be writing a memoir.
“Neem Dreams” screenplay at Binger Film Lab
June 7, 2008
At the end of January, I completed five wonderful months at Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam.
As one of a group of 18 writers I wrote a screenplay adaptation of my novel Neem Dreams (developed to second draft).
See under “film-makers” at the Binger web site
“Party Girl” in Wet Ink
June 7, 2008
My short story “Party Girl” was published in Wet Ink magazine in December 2007.
Read here
“Your guru is your practice” in Iyengar The Yoga Master
June 7, 2008
My chapter “your guru is your practice” is included in the new volume “Iyengar the Yoga Master” edited by Kofi Busia (pub Shambhala) which was launched here at the Yogacharya Yoga Convention on July 13.
This piece is adapted from my book “sun square moon”.