Roger Pulvers

And if you want to know the truth, then read the novel.

And it was published in Japanese by Kodansha, the leading Japanese publisher, did very well.

And so it was a way of coming to terms with this man who also went to Japan at a

a very interesting time in the development of this country, as I did, in fact, in 1967 when the student riots were on and demonstrations were on and there was a radical Japanese theater and so on.

Very different from the Japan that most people know now.

Well, I arrived in Australia in August 1972 to teach Japanese at the ANU.

And that was four months before Gough Whitlam came to power.

And the Labour Party had been in the political outback for 23 years.

And he just became my hero.

I thought, this is an amazing person.

individual who was dragging Australia out of the 19th century into the 20th century, much later than it should have been.

So I really became enamored of Australian culture, particularly the theater.

I spent a lot of time, my first play went on at La Mama,

the year after I arrived, and I had another play on at La Mama, and eventually I ended up leaving Canberra in January 1980 and going to work at the Playbox Theatre on Exhibition Street, which morphed into the Malthouse.

People in Melbourne would know that.

Well, it used to be on Exhibition Street.

So I read a lot of Australian fiction and poetry, and I saw a lot of Australian plays.

But I love George Johnston, and I read all of his novels, even the so-called potboilers, which I found very, very good, which he probably only wrote half of with his wife, right in the other half.

But My Brother Jack, I think, is a great classic.

He was a novelist.