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Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia. She has had an extensive body of work published and plays produced.
Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed (https://www.brandl.com.au/books/thistledown-seed/) (Brandl & Schlesinger) follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family’s tragic past made famous in the Oscar-winning movie, Shine. The floating thistledown seed is like the diaspora of the Jewish people who were scattered around the world as a result of the Holocaust.
Louise is in conversation with Writing WA CEO Will Yeoman.
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Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia. She has had an extensive body of work published and plays produced.
Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed (https://www.brandl.com.au/books/thistledown-seed/) (Brandl & Schlesinger) follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family’s tragic past made famous in the Oscar-winning movie, Shine. The floating thistledown seed is like the diaspora of the Jewish people who were scattered around the world as a result of the Holocaust.
Louise is in conversation with Writing WA CEO Will Yeoman.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit writingwa.substack.com/subscribe (writingwa.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
