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Michèle Drouart
Michèle Drouart was born in Sydney. She lived overseas for several years before returning to Australia where she now resides in Perth. Her memoir Into the Wadi, a winner of the WA Premier’s Book Award, tells of the year she spent in a Muslim Arab village in Jordan. Her story ‘offers a contemplative, unstereotypical look at the complexities of cross-cultural experience’ (Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, Indiana University, 2006). Michèle manages her own business teaching courses in Creative Writing (beginner to advanced). She is also a freelance editor, with focus on assessments and editing for aspiring writers.
Awards
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book of the Year Award, 2001
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Into the Wadi 2000
Website
From the Catalogue
House of Fiction @ Sydney Writers Festival
Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the harrowing tale of a forbidden love affair and an abandoned child. She talks to Caroline Baum at the Sydney Writers Festival
