Brigitta Olubas

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards, and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower's home in Sydney and Hazzard's apartments in New York, Naples, and Capri. The two women wrote to each other...

Cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - Shirley Hazzard's writing reflects her life. The acclaim it attracts is immeasurable. Brigitta Olubas tells the story of a girl from the suburbs of Sydney, Australia who fell early under the spell of words and sought out books as her companions. In the process, she transformed and indeed created her life. She became a...

Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it - Sarah Waters Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Shirley Hazzard lived around the world: in Hong Kong; Wellington, New Zealand; New York; Naples and Capri. Her writing—cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing—reflects her life. Her body of work is...