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\u2018A form of creative death\u2019 Writer Michelle de Kretser\u2019s fear of becoming stale – By Benjamin Law<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

\"\u2018A<\/p>\n

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we\u2019re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they\u2019re given. This week, he talks to Michelle de Kretser. The Sri-Lankan-born novelist, 64, emigrated to Australia at age 14. She has won the Miles Franklin twice, for\u00a0Questions of Travel\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Life to Come<\/em>, and her new novel,\u00a0Scary Monsters<\/em>, is on the award\u2019s 2022 shortlist.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was lucky to come to Australia at a time when tertiary education was free. I know what it is to not be middle-class.\u201d\u00a0CREDIT:<\/em>JOY M LAI<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

DEATH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You once wrote a short, moving essay about the death of your pet dog. Tell me about your dogs and why they\u2019re so important to you.<\/strong>\u00a0They just help enliven our lives. They introduce an element of chaos and unpredictability. And I think it\u2019s quite nice to live with another species. It reminds us of our own animal nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t seem to be much discussion about the death of pets \u2013 or if there is, perhaps it\u2019s trivialising.\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s that feeling from some people \u2013 well, you can just get another dog to replace the one you\u2019ve lost, whereas you can\u2019t replace your mother or your partner. Or maybe you can replace your partner \u2013 I\u2019m sure many do! [Laughs] But animals are as individual as humans are. So when they go, they take their irreducible personality with them. They are simply irreplaceable \u2013 as much as you or me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your latest novel,\u00a0Scary Monsters<\/em>, plays with form. You can start the book from one cover or flip it over and start the story from the other. Does your book announce the death of the traditional novel, or is it resuscitating it?\u00a0<\/strong>People have been talking about the death of the novel for almost as long as there have been novels so no, I don\u2019t think the novel is about to die. It was a way of giving new life to my own artistic practice rather than the novel, which I think will be fine with me or without me. But I had written five novels before this one and been a published writer for 20 years. There\u2019s always a danger that you will get stale. That has always seemed to me a form of creative death, when artists just start to repeat themselves. In art, as in life, we need to look to renewal.<\/span><\/p>\n

BODIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking bodies. How do you feel about yours?<\/strong>\u00a0Oh, I\u2019m pretty grateful to it. I wish I didn\u2019t have a scoliotic spine. If I didn\u2019t, I\u2019d be at least an inch taller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working as a writer demands that you sit for long periods. So how do your career and your scoliotic spine square up?\u00a0<\/strong>Ah well, I have learnt to just use a timer. After 25 minutes, I get up and move around. I also have a very good chair, a saddle chair. Another thing that helps is the Alexander Technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is that?\u00a0<\/strong>It was invented by a Tasmanian and there are teachers of it all around the world now. It\u2019s a way of using your body while placing the least amount of stress on it. It\u2019s non-conventional medicine, but it helps with the management of chronic pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

To what extent would you say that you are living in \u2013 and working through \u2013 pain?<\/strong>\u00a0Not any longer. I have a slipped disc, so I have been in extreme pain \u2013 pain where I have passed out and ended up in emergency departments. I\u2019ve been sent home from hospitals with large supplies of Endone and told, \u201cWell, you have to live your life, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it.\u201d But the moment I have even twinges now, I\u2019ll see my Alexander teacher or a Bowen therapist. [Bowen Therapy is a gentle form of physical manipulation.]<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s something you can do with your body that makes you think, \u201cThank God\u201d?\u00a0<\/strong>Walk.<\/span><\/p>\n

What can\u2019t you do with your body that you really wish you could?<\/strong>\u00a0I often think, I\u2019ll never again run down a flight of stairs. Never. And I wonder when the last time was that I did that and didn\u2019t realise it was the last time.<\/span><\/p>\n

MONEY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You arrived in Australia as a teenager, moving from a middle-class life to a modest one in a flat, with no objects from your childhood around you. How did that transition affect you?<\/strong>\u00a0When you\u2019re 14, it all just seems part of an adventure in living differently. I look back on it now and I\u2019m very grateful for those years. When I was at school, at university and for quite a long time afterwards, I knew what it was like to have very little money. There were times as a student when I couldn\u2019t afford to buy shampoo. But I had my education, and that is a great thing. I was lucky to come to Australia at a time when tertiary education was free. I know what it is to not be middle-class. Now I\u2019m a middle-class person with very middle-class friends and some very wealthy friends. I\u2019m sitting in a room full of books. And I think how lucky I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

You are one of the few writers to have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice. It comes with a $60,000 prize. What did you do with the money?\u00a0<\/strong>Well, there\u2019s something called a mortgage. Very boring. Also, it\u2019s $60,000 for four years\u2019 work or something like that. So let\u2019s divide it and you see a more accurate figure. It mostly went on just living, basically. Writers are very good at eking out money. But also, I did save some and I did give some away.<\/span><\/p>\n

So in a word, it sounds like you used it sensibly.\u00a0<\/strong>I think I\u2019m a boring person generally and, therefore, quite a good manager of money!<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides the money, what does winning the Miles Franklin twice mean to you?\u00a0<\/strong>Incredible good luck. For someone not born in this country, I feel pleased to be on that roster of writers who\u2019ve won what\u2019s still the most prestigious literary award in Australia. I was the first Asian-Australian to win that prize. That\u2019s nice, isn\u2019t it? I hope it encourages many more Asian-Australians to write fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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