Secrets from the Green Room Season 2. Episode 13: Mirandi Riwoe
Nov 9, 2021
42:43
Irma and Craig discuss Covid-19 impacts on book sales.
Then Craig chats with Mirandi Riwoe about combining fact and fiction in her historical novels, viewing the past through the lens of the present, why it's important to her to write Eurasian and Chinese characters, and the important difference between accuracy and authenticity.
About Mirandi
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of the novella The Fish Girl, which won Seizure’s Viva la Novella prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Queensland Literary Award’s Fiction Prize. Her latest novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. Mirandi lives in Brisbane.