Literary Friction - OZ With Evie Wyld

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Oz, that mythical land, where days are hotter than chilli sauce and water goes down the plughole the wrong way... This month we're talking to Evie Wyld about her books 'All the Birds, Singing', and 'Everything is Teeth', both set in Australia. From the writing of Miles Franklin to Richard Flanagan via the mad world of Paul Jennings, we chat about Australia's many depictions in literature, but we also ponder the metaphorical meaning behind that nickname: Oz as the foreign, the distant, the magical and the exotic; something that the Antipodean has long represented for damp and green Britain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction on NTS. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host, Octavia Bright.
0:06.8	Hi, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. You're looking fab today, glasses on the head.
0:11.4	I'll stop deconstructing your wardrobe. Anyway, this month's theme is Oz. So we'll be talking about Australia and its many depictions in literature from the books of Miles Franklin, who was a woman, which I just found out.
0:23.8	I did not know that.
0:24.3	I did not know that to me.
0:25.6	To Richard Flanagan.
0:27.6	Who's not a woman, presumably.
0:29.5	Very not a woman.
0:32.0	It writes quite masculine novels, I would say.
0:34.9	But we're also going to be discussing the metaphorical meaning behind that nickname.
0:39.3	Oz is the foreign, the distant, the magical, and the exotic, something that the Antipodean has long represented for damp and green Britain.
0:47.3	Hey, bless of the damp, please.
0:50.3	It's pretty damp.
0:51.3	It's pretty green too, though.
0:53.3	An author who plays brilliantly with that theme is Evie Wild,
0:56.4	whose most recent work is a graphic novel Everything is Teeth
0:59.1	about her childhood fascination with sharks,
1:01.7	sparked by visits to her family's farm in Australia.
1:04.7	Born in London and raised in Australia and South London,
1:07.6	Evie is also the author of the award-winning novels
1:09.8	after the fire, a still small voice, and all the birds singing. In 2013, she was included on Granta magazine's once a decade best of young British novelist list. And she deserves every single prize. Yes, we love her. Yeah, she's amazing. I love her work. Octavia and I are talking to Evie this month, plus we'll be discussing the theme and recommending books.
1:29.5	So here's our interview with Evie Wilde.
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