Who is Charlotte Wood?
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Charlotte Wood is the author of four novels and a work of non-fiction. Her latest work is a book of essays on cooking, Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food. Her last novel, Animal People, won the People’s Choice medal in the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the 2013 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her earlier novels were also shortlisted for various prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award and regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She is also editor of The Writer’s Room Interviews, a bimonthly digital magazine of conversations with Australian writers. Her fifth novel, about ten teenaged girls trapped in a strange prison in remote outback Australia, will be published in November this year.
Where can I read more about this fabulous author?
https://www.charlottewood.com.au/
What music do they like?
This is certainly not my favourite song or anything like it, but my new novel is about a bunch of teenage girls imprisoned in an abandoned sheep station in the middle of the bush. I wanted to find a sort of anthem for them, which had to be a very middle of the road song they would all know and be able to sing along to. Adele’s Rolling in the Deep is exactly right – it has a scorned young woman’s sentimentality but also a deep, rich, sustaining anger and power in that tribal sort of drumbeat. The film clip is a bit nothing but the song works hugely for me. Every time I listen to it I get fired up to go back to the book and look after ‘my girls’.
Another piece of music that has found its way into my psyche for this book is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto, primarily because it accompanies the astounding AES+F video art piece The Feast of Trimalchio that I saw at the Sydney Biennale a few years ago and it completely enthralled me with its weird, menacing and mysterious imagery. The yellow buses have even found their way into my book. The clip of Part I of the AES+F piece is here: it gives me shivers every time I see it or hear the music.
