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'Alice Pung is an award-winning writer, journalist, and essayist. Her first book, the memoir Unpolished Gem, won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year Award. She followed it with another memoir, Her Father's Daughter. And in the novel Laurinda, Alice is one of the rising stars of Australian writing. I started my conversation with Alice by asking her about the origin of her first name.' (Introduction)
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- Alice was named after Alice in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland.Show notes
- Alice doesn’t understand the arguments to sanitise YA fiction when teenagers are still expect to engage with the violence and poverty in Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
- Alice acknowledges Australian authors Melina Marchetta (especially Looking for Alibrandi) and John Marsden’s work as significant influences in her teenage years, as well as Canadian author Robert Cormier, who wrote After the First Death and The Chocolate War. She also read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and the works of Judy Blume and Anne Rice.
- Alice took one creative writing course while she studied law at the University of Melbourne, and was in the same class as Clementine Ford.
- Alice counts Arnold Zable, another prominent writer in the Australian literary landscape, as a friend.
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