“Before The Museum of Modern Love, I had very few readers outside Tasmania.

Suddenly this book was being published in other countries and other languages. We had a launch for it in New York last year at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where it is set. It was the first novel ever to be launched there – or stocked in their bookshop – and it was written by a Tasmanian!

The book’s success made it possible for me to work full-time as an author at last. I wrote my latest novel, Bruny, in that precious time. As my father likes to say: ‘It's amazing how lucky you get when you work really hard.'

We can't hide here. We can't pretend we're something we're not.

I live really simply. I don't have a fancy lifestyle. I don't have a glamorous bank account. I love the seclusion of living at the end of the world. I love living close to the sea. That's very Tasmanian.”

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