‘The Big Book about Small Town Australia that Travelled the World’, The Guardian, 8 September 2017
One of the most frequent questions authors are asked is, “Who are you writing for?” The audience I had in my mind while writing Carpentaria was the ancestors of our traditional country. I concentrated on the way our people speak to country and each other. In that way, it always felt as though I was writing a story to the old people about the complexities and bravery of our world today but also, by linking the past and the present in this way, I was bringing the ancestral realm into a story of all times.
“The big book about small town Australia that travelled the world” by Alexis Wright