Michelle de Kretser began reading Shirley Hazzard well before she herself would become a writer, but she felt an early kinship, and two decades later it exploded into a full obsession. This week, Michael speaks with Michelle and Hazzard's biographer Brigitta Olubas about one of Australia's most underrated and underread authors.Reading list:The Evening of the Holiday, Shirley Hazzard, 1966The Bay of Noon, Shirley Hazzard, 1970The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard, 1980Greene on Capri, Shirley Hazzard, 2000The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard, 2003On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers, Michelle de Kretser, 2019Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, Brigitta Olubas, 2023Prophet Song, Paul Lynch, 2023So Close to Home, Mick Cummins, 2023In Praise of Veg, Alice Zaslavsky, 2020You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books.Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Michelle de Kretser & Brigitta Olubas

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