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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
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
