Interviews

  • Markus Zusak Interview

    By Judith | May 25, 2006

    I believe this interview was written in 2006. It was done for the US Bookseller and Publisher, although the published version underwent a very heavy copyedit and actually bore very little relationship to what I wrote (or what Markus said!). Anyway, water under the bridge, this is the original draft as submitted. When I first…

  • Margaret Mahy Interview 2004

    By Judith | October 1, 2004

    This is the second interview I have done with Margaret Mahy; the first was in 1994. This interview first appeared in Good Reading Magazine in October 2004. In a bedroom-cum-office in a house over-looking New Zealand’s Lyttelton Harbour lives and works children’s author Margaret Mahy. Surrounded by photographs of her children and grandchildren—My family keep…

  • Geraldine McCaughrean Interview

    By Judith | November 1, 2003

    Late in 2003, I interviewed Geraldine McCaughrean via email. The interview was done for Good Reading magazine. I sent Ms McCaughrean a series of questions, to which she responded in one long email, so what you will read below is, first of all, my questions, and then her response. __________________ Questions for Geraldine McCaughrean I’ve…