2005

Craig Silvey News 2005.

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February 14, 2005.

David Cohen profiles and interviews Craig Silvey for The West Australian. Read the article, "Everyone's Talking Rhubarb." (Archive.)

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February 18, 2005.

Mick O'Donnell chats with Craig Silvey for the ABC. Read the transcript: "Silvey's Book Rhubarb has People Taking to the Streets" (archive 1, archive 2).

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April 20, 2005.

Sally Murphy reviews Rhubarb for Aussie Reviews (archive 1; archive 2).

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May 28, 2005.

A twenty-two-year-old Craig Silvey contributes to a "Five ways with words" article published by The Sydney Morning Herald (archive). Here's what Silvey wrote:

I started notes on the book when I was 16 but once high school was over, I started in earnest. I was writing as much as my fiscal situation would allow - every moment I wasn't doing the work no one else wanted to do was my time to write. The only way that I can describe writing is that it feels natural and right. I can't remember the last time I wasn't reading a book. Being ensconced in a novel is the right state to be in. I'm happiest when I'm working on a piece of fiction - for the most part it's a lonely, insular process. I don't know why anyone would sit down for eight hours a day and pontificate over things. It's a strange way to live on the periphery of two worlds. At the moment I prefer the unreal world, but it ebbs and flows depending on how things are going.

(In 2005, Craig Silvey was a winner of the The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists award. His name is listed here; archive 1; archive 2.)