Exploring australian literature through an interview with Elizabeth Jolley

Abstract

The study of Australian Culture and Literature is not very common in Venezuela, since 2001 an area of the research cluster ‘Language, literature and culture’ that is registered at the research center ‘Cultures and languages’ at UPEL Maracay has been dedicated to look for information related with this topic. The following written paper introduces a well-known writer in the Aussie literature; her name is Elizabeth Jolley (Dribble, 2007). Now the richness of this document is that it is an interview that was conducted to her in 2001 before she became ill and passed away in 2007. For all those who are passionate about literature, either as critic, student or as reader, there is nothing more fascinating that reading the own voices of a writer and to have a look to her or her feelings and views about the topic. In this interview there is a broad view about how she started writing and the feeling of writing in Australia.