![]() ![]() While there, I came up an idea for a novel that I’m hoping to expand into my first series. ![]() I loved the strong sense of national identity and the clashing culture – the tremendously modern and the revered past. I had visited Japan the year before and found it to be a really inspiring and beautiful place. I lived in Nakano-Sakaue, right on the edge of Shinjuku. How has this experience fed back into your writing? You recently spent some time in Japan teaching English. ![]() Fairytales for Wilde Girls was recently released in Russian. She will be hosting a workshop based around crafting fairytales for the MWF this year. Near won Deakin University’s inaugural Judith Rodriguez Prize for Fiction in her second year of study, and was one of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival’s 30 Under 30 in 2015. Allyse Near’s debut novel, Fairytales for Wilde Girls, won Best Horror and Best Young Adult Novel at the Aurealis Awards, Honour Book of the Year at the CBCA Awards, and was shortlisted for the Norma K Hemming and Inky Awards. ![]()
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