Melbourne Writers Festival 2020

On Resilience

Primary & Secondary, Years 6—8 Zana Fraillon, multiple award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow, shares the inspiration behind her novels. In her latest book The Lost Soul Atlas, her protagonist Twig must choose between a blissful future without painful memories and an arduous journey to find his father and piece together his former life. Fraillon speaks about writing resilient characters as well as treacherous villains, and the pleasures of building vibrant worlds filled with difficult challenges.