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Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.

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There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

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I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.

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You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

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If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

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My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

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Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

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Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to demand the government say sorry for past injustices.

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I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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