Fiona Tanzer
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer of fiction |
| Location | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Introduction | Having been a happily practising molecular biolgist for many years, I have now chosen to be a novelist. The creative process fascinates me. I love to ramble and play and go off-topic (hence Nine Times Circling). In my blog I'll share with you my rambly thoughts, writing trivia, real life events that impact my writing and creativity, and aspects of other writers' work that impress me pleasurably. I most cordially invite you to comment or add some rambles of your own in reponse to old posts or new. I'd love to hear from you. You have my kind regards. |
| Interests | Reading, Conversation, Ideas, Molecular genetics, Friends, Animals |
| Favorite Movies | Here are a very few of them: The Artist, Pan's Labyrinth, The House of Flying Daggers, Ran (Japanese film), 300, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Midnight in Paris, Moulin Rouge, Beowulf (animated version), Bright Star, Atanarjuat the Fast Runner. If we include TV series: Dr Who, Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth) |
| Favorite Music | Again - too many to mention: A Child's Guide to the Orchestra (Benjamin Britten), Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev), Gregorian chant and plainsong, English folk music, traditional music from anywhere in the world, negro spirituals, madrigals, Palestrina, baroque music, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, Enya, Japanese Heian Court music |
| Favorite Books | Where do I even start??? The works of Lewis Carroll, AA Milne, Mary Renault, Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows, Tove Jansen's Moomin books, Imperium (Robert Harris), Henrietta Rose-Innes short stories, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke), Odysseus (Homer), mythology legends and folk tales from all around the world, The Book of Job, The Ramayana, Yann Martel's books |