Candida Baker - Author
In
1985 Candida embarked on a ten-year writing project, interviewing a total of 36
Australian writers for her Yacker - Australian Writers Talk About Their Work series, based on the Paris Review interviews with writers.
Candida
conducted interviews with writers such as Peter Carey, David Malouf, Helen
Garner and a young Kate Grenville. She also received an Australia Council
grant to travel to the UK and to the US where she interviewed poet Peter Porter
and writer Randolph Stowe and in New York, Sumner Locke Elliott.
The first
volume was published in 1986 to critical acclaim, and also sold in the UK.
Subsequent volumes were published in 1989 and 1990, creating a valuable
and on-going research resource for students of Australian literature. The
original manuscripts are held by the state library of New South Wales.
Candida's first novel, Women and Horses, was a
runner-up in the prestigious Vogel Australian Literary Awards in 1990. It
was published in Australia as a hard-back Picador and in the U.S by St. Martin's
Press.
In 1994 Candida's book of prize-winning short
stories, The Powerful Owl, was published by Picador. The title
story was runner-up in the Canberra Times short story competition and has been
included in numerous anthologies.
In
the past ten years Candida has published several anthologies, articles, another
novel, The Hidden, which is being adapted for the screen and was
published as a Knopf hardback in 2000.
She has written two children's books, The Little Angels Counting Book and I
Know That. Candida’s The
Infinite Magic of Horses, was published in November 2009, The Wonderful
World of Dogs in November 2010, with several books in the series,
(published by Allen & Unwin's Inspired Living imprint), to follow.
Bibliography
Baker Candida - non-fiction: Yacker - Australian Writers Talk About Their Work,
Vols 1, 2 & 3. Published
Picador 1986, 1989, 1990 and Picador UK
Baker Candida - fiction: Women and
Horses, novel, published Picador 1990 Australia. St. Martin's Press U.S 1990
Baker Candida - essay: Six Characters in Search of an Author - a treatise on Pirandello and creativity.
Published Island Magazine 1991
Baker Candida - fiction: The Powerful
Owl, short stories. Published Picador 1994
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Candida - short story: The Canvas, Included in anthology Women, Love
Sex.
Baker Candida - anthology: The Penguin Book
of the Horse. Published Penguin 1996
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Candida - fiction: The Hidden, novel. Published Knopf 2000
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Candida - short story: The Penguin Book of the Beach
Baker Candida - short story: The
Penguin Book of the City
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Candida - essay: Fathers
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Candida - essay: The Hollow Crown - an essay on travelling with
the Royal Shakespeare Company. Sunday Magazine 2002
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Candida - column: The Northern Star, Candidly Speaking. 2005-2007,
2009-ongoing
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Candida - anthology: The Infinite Magic of Horses. Published Allen &
Unwin (Inspired Living) 2009
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Candida – anthology: The Wonderful World of Dogs. Published Allen & Unwin
(Inspired Living) 2010
Conferences and Festivals
Speaker
at the Canterbury Literary Festival, Canterbury UK 1994
Melbourne Writers Festival: 1998 and 2002
Byron
Writers Festival: 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
Chair
of the Walkely Freelance Journalism conference in Brisbane 2008
Chair:
In conversation with Gaye Bilson Queensland Library 2008
Co-creator and participant in The Armchair Series of lectures for The
Australian newspaper, held around Australia with various writers and public
figures such as Hugh Lunn and Paul Kelly throughout 1998-2000
Numerous
creative writing workshops, both independently created and for:
TAFE teacher: Four lectures in Cultural Appreciation at TAFE Lismore April/May 2010
