• Title
  Item 1: Ursula Dubosarsky oral history interview by Sally Zwartz, 21 May 2024
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  21 May 2024
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9683108
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (2 hr., 31 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this first interview session, Ursula Dubosarsky discusses her childhood and education, influential teachers and early writing success, and university studies that enriched her love of literature.
  
  Ursula talks about moving to Canberra and writing her first novel Zizzy Zing, learning Biblical Hebrew, and her time in a kibbutz in Israel, where she learned modern Hebrew and met her husband.
  
  Now with a young family, Ursula wrote her first picture book Maisie and the Pinny Gig, which was published in 1989, followed by her first published novel High Hopes the following year. Ursula discusses these books and the many others she wrote throughout the 1990s. She explains the different demands and processes involved in the different book forms, particularly picture books and short chapter books. She discusses her experiences working with illustrators such as Andrew Joyner, Tohby Riddle and Ron Brooks.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961-
  
• Subject
  Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961---Interviews.
  Authors, Australian--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21158731

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