Folio Prize winner Michelle de Kretser on her Virginia Woolf-influenced new novel

“Henry James famously said the novel is a baggy monster, and I thought, perhaps my novel could be a carrier-baggy monster.”

Author InterviewsNov 15, 2024by Alice O'Keeffe

Michelle de Kretser © Joy Lai

Folio Prize for Fiction-winning Michelle de Kretser on her new novel and how it was influenced by Virginia Woolf.

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