Julia lawrinson biography
- Julia Lawrinson is an.
- Julia Lawrinson is a writer, presenter and consultant living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia).
- Julia Lawrinson is a writer and presenter living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia).
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Lawrinson, Julia 1969-
PERSONAL: Born September 21, 1969, in Perth, Australia; married John Farrell (an angling teacher), May 24, 2003; children: Annie. Education: Murdoch University, graduate diploma of education, 1998; Edith Cowan University, B.A. (with honors), 1999, cousework toward Ph.D.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Box 158, North Fremantle, 6159 Western Australia. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, tutor in literature, drama, and children's literature; teacher of English as a second language, 1993—. State Literature Centre of Western Australia, chair.
AWARDS, HONORS: Western Australia Premier's Award for Young-Adult Writing, 2001; Centenary Medal, 2003.
WRITINGS:
for children
Obsession, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (Fremantle, Western Australia), 2001.
Skating the Edge, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (Fremantle, Western Australia), 2002.
Loz and Al, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (Fremantle, Western Australia), 2003.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Suburban Freak Show.
SIDELIGHTS: Julia
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Our members have been reading How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson. In the following interview, Julia speaks about the book and her experiences as an author:
Tell us about your book
How to Avoid a Happy Life is a memoir about the things that happened to me growing up in the Australia of the 70s and 80s. It is my attempt to make sense of the odd collection of events that comprise my life, and I hope readers will laugh and occasionally cry along the journey.
To give you an idea, the chapters include Be Born Into Intergenerational Misery, Marry Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Brother, Experience Vicarious Trauma through Your Friend Being Raped and Murdered by a Japanese Serial Killer, Find Out Why Your Husband is Urinating in the Kitchen of an Evening, and Find Yourself and Your New Partner Being Chased Down the Street by a Phalanx of Reporters.
How to Avoid a Happy Life shows that resilience is not inborn but learned.
How is it different to what you’ve written before?
It was an entirely ne
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Julia Lawrinson
Author
Julia Lawrinson has written more than a dozen books for children and teenagers, many of them award-winning. She grew up in the outer suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, not long after the first moon landing. She loves dogs, oceans, and sunsets, and still likes to gaze at the night sky, just in case.
Julia’s new memoir, How To Avoid A Happy Life, is coming out soon and is suitable for senior students and adults. The book has already received wonderful attention and praise:
‘Astute, compassionate, heartbreaking, compelling – and sometimes downright astonishing.’
Kate Evans – ABC Radio National host of The Bookshelf
‘How To Avoid A Happy Life is a potent elixir of heartbreaking incident and astonishing resilience, and I’d have to add redemption. Julia Lawrinson is that rarest of things: a true original voice. Such an inventively irreverent and fearlessly honest memoir! This book is exactly what George Eliot meant when she said, “Literature of the most intimate sublimity can actually tell us how emotionally cr
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