![]() ![]() ![]() Australia has many links with Japan, and is in the same time zone, though a different hemisphere. It is to become a different person and begin to think in a different way.Ĭoming to Australia brought me closer to Japan, a country I had been interested in for many years. I love languages and words: to learn a foreign language is to enter into a love affair with a country and its culture. ![]() I think the main influences on my writing were my rather disturbed teenage years (I won't go into details) and studying modern languages (French and Spanish) at Oxford. I was born in England and emigrated to Australia. ![]() Lian Hearn interview with 's Alisa McCune What is your background? How does it impact on your writing? The Storyteller and his Three Daughters.As yet the film has not been developed beyond the scripting stage. Since then the Tales of the Otori have been world wide best sellers appealing to millions of readers in over 36 countries.įilm rights were sold before the first book was published to Universal Studios for Kennedy/Marshall, and David Henry Hwang was assigned as script writer. It's almost twenty years since the publication of the first book Across the Nightingale Floor (2002). Wine, knife, sword.’ Wine for the marriage ceremony, knife to cut our throats, sword for revenge. Wine, Knife, Sword ~ A Tale from the Eight IslandsĪ FREE Otori story by Lian Hearn, available only on this website: ![]()
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