Interviews

  • Know the Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah

    By Judith | March 1, 2011

    Published in Magpies Magazine, Vol. 26 No. 1, March 2011 Randa Abdel-Fattah has been one of Australia’s most well-known and successful writers for young people in Australia for more than twenty years. In more recent years, she has become known across the Australian community for her staunch advocacy for Palestine and the Palestinian people. Randa’s…

  • 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…