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25.01.2022 Just finished this excellent book and inspired to return to Orwell’s back catalogue. The chickens have voted for ‘Animal Farm’. Also thinking Jura’s bleak weather and a case of TB might bring out the best in my writing. Thank you Mike Wilkins for the gift of the novel.
22.01.2022 The late great traveller, Bruce Chatwin, as seen through the eyes of Werner Herzog.
21.01.2022 The awards are tomorrow! For anyone interested, you can tune in at 8am (AEDT) to check out the proceedings.
21.01.2022 Hi, good folk. I have finally updated my website so it doesn't look like it was built in GeoCities. I'll keep adding content but for now at least it looks (semi) pretty. www.neilgrant.com.au
19.01.2022 Saving India's tigers from extinction https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54829594
18.01.2022 What could possibly go wrong when you create a Portuguese to English phrase book with the aid of a Portuguese-to-French dictionary and a French-to-English dictionary, using the former for an initial translation of a word or phrase from Portuguese, and the latter to convert it from French into English.
15.01.2022 & is released this month in the U.S. And here is a lovely write-up from Kirkus Reviews.
14.01.2022 The Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced and & has been shortlisted! Woot! Congrats to all the shortlisted authors. https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/current-awards
13.01.2022 Looking for a wonderful exploration of dual heritage, cultural identity, family and the power of storytelling? We suggest The Honeyman and the Hunter by Neil Grant author! Here's an extract to get you started!
08.01.2022 Earliest surviving graphic novel found in Sulawesi.
07.01.2022 While listening to the Scotland Outdoors podcast, I heard about this beautiful book of spells that seeks to return words to children. These words, rooted in the natural world, were excised from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007 to make way for others such as 'broadband'.
01.01.2022 Helena Fox's beautiful novel, 'How it Feels to Float' took the YA prize for the Prime Minister's Literary Award this morning. Never being one to waste words, and to thank the people that made my shortlisting possible, here is a speech: I don’t know that many people outside the writing game know that writing a novel is actually a team sport. I would like to thank the following people, places and organisations for their support: Firstly, thank you to the ACT for allowing us ac...ross your border. Thank you to Victoria and especially the big-hearted, brave people of Melbourne (my community) for all we achieved in this difficult this year. Never have so many doughnuts meant so much to such a deserving bunch of folk. To the Honorable Scott Morrison and the Honorable Paul Fletcher thank you for acknowledging the importance of writing to the cultural landscape of Australia with this award, and for considering my writing worthy of being placed among the other shortlisted novels. I’m humbled. Thank you to the judges for their time and expertise and to the awards team for all their hard work. Thank you to all the other writers here today and those who are not. You make this world a richer, more interesting place. To the Australia Council for the Arts for the New Work Grant they gave me in 2013. Without whose help I would not have been able to complete this novel. To Allen & Unwin - Jodie Webster: my publisher - Hilary Reynolds: my editor on this novel. For being generally ace, for their love of beautiful words and for believing in me. To Amanda Grant Who is a wonderful, talented graphic designer and also my wife. For her support in so many ways, including the design of The Honeyman & The Hunter. When I doubt myself you are always there to pick me up. To Marj Grant My mum, who was born in Jamshedpur, India 1937. Who left the country she thought was home when she was 13 and never returned. She gave me a love of India that I have carried with me since I was a child. She told me stories of elephants and snake charmers and gods and goddesses as the grey Scottish rain fell on our tenement roof. There is so much of my mum in this book. I wish she had been around to see it published but I am glad she knew I was writing it for her. And finally A big noon gudgin, tashikor, dhanyavaad, efharistó, shukraan, tapadh leat, merci, xièxiè, grazie, and thank you, to the multicultural Australia that welcomed me, a 13-year-old Scottish kid, to Tullamarine in 1979. I hope that with this book I honour what makes this country strong diversity, acceptance and compassion.
01.01.2022 So exciting. Heading to the award ceremony in Canberra next month.
