Pauline Fisk
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Occupation | Author |
|---|---|
| Introduction | I've been writing all my life. My first book was published forty years ago, my first novel a mere twenty-one years ago. It was 'Midnight Blue' and it won that year's Smarties Book Prize Gold Award. I'm also a weaver, a mother and grandmother and a bit of an adventurer. Though travel has come to me in later years, I've always seen life as an adventure - on either side of my computer screen. I'm passionate about encouraging young people to develop their talents and use their imaginations. I'm very proud to be Children's University Chancellor for the county of Shropshire, England. I'm also currently writing a one-year blog on my hometown, interviewing everybody from bakers and town centre jugglers to coffee-shop owners and the prison governor, all under the heading 'Want to get to the heart of an English country town? Here's your chance.' Life is extraordinary. All you have to do is scrape the surface to find that out. |
| Favorite Movies | Local Hero is my 'comfort' film. Babette's Feast is my film feast. A River Runs Through It and Badlands are my two favourite films that use a running narrative device. I also love Russian Ark |
| Favorite Music | My eight desert island discs are: Francis McPeake - She Moves Through the Fair; The Incredible String Band - Air; Bob Dylan - Desolation Row; Vaughan Williams - Lark Arising; Mozart - Clarinet Concerto; Charlie Parker - Salt Peanuts; Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah; Idris Davies - Paradise Song |
| Favorite Books | One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The End of the Affiar - Graham Greene, Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys, Teaching a Stone to Talk - Annie Dillard, Forbidden Journey - Ella Maillart, Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen, Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner, The Wild Places - Robert McFarlane. |