Over the years, Nicolas has had the honour of interviewing many leading Australian and international writers on the craft of writing. Usually when writers are interviewed, they are promoting their latest book. But in these video interviews, they talk about their process and their career, providing tips and advice for emerging writers.
Alex Miller is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and a collection of essays and stories. He is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game and for Journey to the Stone Country and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1993 for The Ancestor Game.
Graeme Simsion is the author of The Rosie Project series, which has sold over six million copies in forty-two languages, and other international bestsellers including The Best of Adam Sharp and the Two Steps series, which he wrote with his partner, Anne Buist.
Nikki Gemmell has written best-selling novels, memoirs, children’s books, and has a weekly column in The Weekend Australian in which she holds little back – about herself or her views. Her books include The Bride Stripped Bare, Shiver, Cleave, After, The Book of Rapture and The Ripping Tree.
Sofie Laguna was the winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Award for her second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep. Her other adult novels have been One Foot Wrong, The Choke, and Infinite Splendours. She has also written a number of acclaimed and award-winning children’s chapter and picture books.
Maria Tumarkin is a writer, cultural historian, and teacher of creative writing, whose four books to date Traumascapes, Courage, Otherland and Axiomatic have poked, provoked, challenged and confronted, and changed the landscape of Australian non-fiction. Her awards include the Melbourne Prize for Best Writing and the international Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Axiomatic was named one of The New Yorker’s Top Ten Books of 2019.