A novel which reads like an elegant memoir … Farr’s powerful, sensuous writing brings the rhythm and movement of both the ocean and music to a life rich with art and colour, ambition, love, and indescribable loss. It’s glorious, the water in the morning, when it’s calm like this, when you can just bob on … Read more…
About Tracy Farr
Lena Gaunt and other titles on Aardvark Bureau 2016 list
In his blog post ‘The Aardvark emerges’ [no longer available online], Scott Pack talks about the list of upcoming titles due from Aardvark Bureau in the first half of 2016. The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (January 2016) is joined on the list by novels from two much-loved Wellington authors: Fiona Kidman’s The Infinite Air (March … Read more…
‘true stories told live’ at Wellington LitCrawl 2015
Tracy Farr is on the programme for the second annual Wellington LitCrawl, on Saturday 14 November 2015, appearing in the ‘True Stories Told Live’ event supported by New Zealand Book Council. Celebrating independent publishing and collaboration, LitCrawl takes place at a range of downtown Wellington venues, from bookshops to chocolate factories, art galleries to bars, breweries, cinemas and … Read more…
NZ Book Council adds writer profile for Tracy Farr
The Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly New Zealand Book Council) Writers Files represent the most comprehensive collection of information about New Zealand writers on the Internet In addition to entries reprinted from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Read NZ adds pages for authors not currently featured in the Companion, and supplements Companion entries with new information. Up … Read more…
‘Aardvark author Tracy Farr on her debut novel’ interview
The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt will be published in January 2016 by Aardvark Bureau. In this interview, Tracy Farr speaks about the inspiration behind her debut novel and its unforgettable main character, Lena Gaunt: musican, octogenarian, junkie. I have a complicated relationship with the sea…unlike Lena, I find the sea magnetic and sustaining from … Read more…
‘Odyssey: Tracy Farr in Mildura’ interview, rnz
Tracy Farr talks with Bryan Crump on RNZ Nights about her month in Mildura as the Mildura Writers Festival’s inaugural Writer in Residence. Listen to the interview: Listen online to ‘Odyssey: Tracy Farr in Mildura’ (RNZ Nights, 1 September 2015)
Liz Byrski: In Love and War, and Lena
Liz Byrski was interviewed recently on WritingWA‘s Cover to Cover, about her most recent book, In Love and War: Nursing Heroes. Cover to Cover host Meri Fatin described the process of writing In Love and War as “as almost like a piece of plastic surgery in itself”. In this short excerpt from the 40-minute interview, Liz talks about what she learned from … Read more…
‘The Next Big Thing’ reading, The Wheeler Centre
I’m delighted to be part of The Wheeler Centre’s 2015 programme. The Next Big Thing — a session featuring readings from Geraldine Wooller, A.S. Patrić, Sam Prendergast and me — is on at The Moat (basement, 176 Little Lonsdale St, under the State Library) on Monday 27 July from 6.15pm. The event is free, but…unfortunately it’s already booked out. … Read more…
‘Meet Tracy Farr’ interview for WordMothers
Nicole Melanson is an Australian-based writer whose WordMothers blog is, in Nicole’s words: …dedicated to showcasing women’s work in the literary arts around the world. It features female author interviews and women in the book industry discussing what they’re really passionate about. Nicole invites women writers to discuss their writing process, their latest books, and other female wordsmiths, … Read more…
Midway in Mildura
My month as Writer in Residence in Mildura is already half over. How did that happen? Melbourne first The trip started with a 24-hour stopover in Melbourne. I spent much of the day working at the State Library of Victoria. What a treat to be able to waltz in, get a library card, request (and … Read more…