The Informed Imagination: Drusilla Modjeska discusses writing The Mountain
Australian writer Drusilla Modjeska has written an insightful and thought-provoking article in Meanjin about writing her latest book, The Mountain. I fear the excerpt below might make the article seem like hard work but it’s definitely not. The piece provides a fascinating glimpse into the decisions, difficulties and responsibilities of writing. … it was, for…
Drusilla Modjeska
Perhaps I’m just being fashionably late, but I’ve just read Drusilla Modjeska’s 2013 Seymour Biography Lecture and it’s brilliant. Modjeska ponders her “defection from that borderline ground between the biographical and the fictive, my journey through the check-points into the land of the novel.” Her lecture takes us to the highlands of Papua New Guinea…