The Language of Astonishment: A French-Australian Author’s Reflections on her Identity

Author: SOPHIE MASSON
Explorations No 50 (Jun 2011): 37-54
https://doi.org/10.62586/FRVQ2645

This article is based on the author’s reflection on her childhood and on the ‘in-betweenness’ of her identity as a French-Australian and as a writer. The author’s book The Hunt for Ned Kelly has won the 2011 Patricia Wrightson Prize, the children’s literature category in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and was recently elected as President of the Australian Society of Authors. The article concludes with a list of all her published works.

Keywords: Andreï Makine, Le Testament Français, bilingual writers, citizenship