Mt Isa was one of her significant destinations, and she relished the rough and tumble of the Miners’ bar in the Mt Isa Irish Club. Since then, she has frequently boomeranged: she had become besotted by the landscapes, the colour, the sounds of the wildlife (especially birds) and the people, especially of rural Australia.
From 1974-5, she lived the seventies’ dream of freedom, moving from job to job and place to place to get the maximum value from her travel, working as a receptionist, for an insurance company, as a researcher on an encyclopaedia of Australia, as a secretary and a barmaid, among other jobs. She is a part-time Australian by election (living and working in Ireland with an Irish passport), having run away to the bottom of the world as a young woman of nineteen. Categories matter in bookshops, and Evelyn is justifiably proud of having made it to the Australian Fiction shelves. Evelyn Conlon Evelyn Conlon agreed to talk to Frances Devlin-Glass about her career as a writer, and this is an account of a discussion on 12 September 2013Įvelyn Conlon is now officially an Australian novelist: her latest novel, Not the Same Sky, about Irish Famine Orphans of the 1840s, sits proudly among the Australian novels in Readings bookshop.
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