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An Interview with Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931 and she left Australia in 1947. She has since lived in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Britain, and France. Now an American citizen, she divides her time between Italy and New York. Between the years 1952 and 1962 Hazzard worked in the United Nations as a clerical employee, […]
Throughout The Great Fire, repeated references are made to a thick book Aldred Leith is reading, but Hazzard leaves it to the reader to deduce that it’s War and Peace. SH: When I was twenty-five, I looked around and realized that I’d lived in six completely different parts of the world for substantial periods: Australia, the Far East, and New Zealand; in Britain, with repeated returnings; New York; and Italy. There have been particular books— Nigel Balchin’s The Small Back Room, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Nabokov’s The Defense, Muriel Spark’s The Girl of Slender Means —many others—that eccentrically touch the imagination.
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