Know the Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah

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 heritage includes a direct one-generation family connection to Palestine, and she has, for as long as I have known her, been clear, courageous and unstinting in her advocacy as a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is someone I deeply admire. I interviewed Randa about her writing for young people in 2011 for Magpies Magazine. The interview is not available online, and I thank James Turton from Magpies for his permission to reproduce it here.

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