Here's our collection of Isobelle Carmody interviews, provided by members over the years who've had a chance to meet Isobelle at school talks, book launches and writing festivals, plus interviews from other websites and publishers (all used with approval from the source).
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Sarah McDuling catches up with one of her literary heroes, Isobelle Carmody, to chat about the long anticipated final book in the award-winning Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Red Queen.
Originally posted here: Isobelle Carmody, the Booktopia Podcast; republished on Obernewtyn.net for archiving purposes.
Isobelle Carmody answers questions about
The Obernewtyn Chronicles, including what inspired her to write it at the time, and about writing for YA and children in general.
Originally posted here: Isobelle Carmody: An interview/an apology/an introduction; reposted with permission from The Book Wars.
Isobelle Carmody talks
The Red Queen, the
Greylands film, how travel has effected her writing, and more.
Originally posted here: The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Isobelle Carmody; reposted with permission from David McDonald.
Isobelle Carmody writes a letter to her 14-year-old self providing insights into our favourite author's teenage life and the driving forces behind her picking up a pen and forging a career that means so much to so many.
Originally posted on Dear Teen Me website, reposted with permission from both website and Isobelle.
Full interview appears in Country Style magazine, April 2013 edition - this is an image of the first page of the interview, including photographs from Isobelle's childhood.
The folk at Dark Matter Fanzine have published an hour-long video recording of Isobelle's
Greylands relaunch event that took place at Readings Carlton on 22 October 2012.
Isobelle Carmody discusses how her childhood has inspired her writing.
Posted on Obernet for archiving purposes; no copyright infringement intended; via The Age (Entertainment).
In this interview, Isobelle describes her feelings now that the
Obernewtyn Chronicles are almost over. She also mentions the
Beforetime Chronicles, Tales from the Tower, Metro Winds and
Green Monkey Dreams.
Posted on Obernet with permission from the interviewer, Kathryn Linge.
In this talk, Isobelle discusses her new collection of short stories, Metro Winds, including how and why she wrote it. Includes some live readings of snippets of the book.
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Posted on Obernet with permission from the Dark Matter Fanzine website.
For those of us who missed out on Isobelle's Sydney Writers' Festival 2012 panel, here it is!
Transcribed by dweomeroflight at her blog, InkAshlings (posted on Obernet with permission).
From the ABC Radio's
Blog:
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An interview from Rowena Cory-Daniells site, talking about inspiration, why she writes fantasy, and sources of creativity.
Posted on Obernet with permission from Rowena Cory-Daniells - thank you!
The Sending has now officially been released since Saturday! Although many of you were able to get your hands on copies well before the official date, the official release at Supernova Brisbane was a big event for all Obernewtyn fans, and enjoyed immensely by those able to attend it.
Australian fantasy writer Isobelle Carmody has just released her latest book “The Sendingâ€.
The highly anticipated release is the sixth instalment of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, a series Isobelle started working on in 1972 when she was only 14 years old.
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From the ABC Radio's Blog.
Isobelle talks about her love of writing and of what it's like to live between Australia and Prague.
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From the ABC Radio's Radio National website.
Our Penguin contact Felicity has passed us a newly-uploaded video in which Isobelle talks about her writing, drawing and life with her family in the lead up to the much anticipated sixth book in The Obernewtyn Chronicles, 'The Sending', in her beautiful hometown of Apollo Bay.
Dr MacIntyre announced the winner of the Nance Donkin Award for 2011 to be Isobelle Carmody. By co-incidence, Isobelle was at that very moment accepting an award for Book of the Year and was unable to attend our meeting. The Award was accepted on her behalf by her daughter, Adelaide, and her friend, Rosie Borella. Rosie and Adelaide spoke about Isobelle's work and Rosie read a speech from Isobelle.
From The Society of Women Writers Page.
Isobelle Carmody took out two separate honours last week in recognition of her work as a children's author. The former
Geelong Advertiser journalist picked up one of the industry's most prestigious awards when her novel,
The Red Wind was named as the Children's Book Council's Book of the Year in the younger readers category...
An interview from
Burn Bright, where Isobelle talks to Bec Stafford about her approach to writing, how hard it is to finish a series that she's been working with for so long (i.e, the Sending), her living abroad, and which of her characters are her favourites, and why.
Posted on Obernet with approval from Burn Bright - thanks guys!
Isobelle answers questions about why she loves fantasy writing, the pressures of waiting fans, which writing form she prefers, and a number of other interesting topics - including a few tidbits about
The Sending and
The Red Queen.
Posted on Obernet with approval from tlcbooks.com.au - thank you Tanya!
On Thursday 5th August 2010, Isobelle spoke at the Queenscliff Hotel as part of her Red Wind release tour.
She allowed the entire talk to be recorded with the intention of posting a transcript on Obernet for those who couldn't be there, which Deb has taken many, MANY hours to transcribe - and the entire mammoth transcript is within!
Viewable to members only!
Back at the Sydney Writers' Festival in May 2009, Penguin interviewed Isobelle and they contacted me, asking if I could discreetly gather some questions from our Theories board to ask her.
As part of their wonderful anniversary gift to us, Sharlene has sent me the video interview - which contains a special message from Isobelle, to us, right at the end!
Many thanks to Sharlene @ Penguin for gifting us this - and Isobelle for taking the time to do it!
Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. In this video Isobelle talks about writing the Obernewtyn Chronicles available from Penguin Books Australia...
Uploaded by PenguinAustralia on Aug 16, 2009
With permission and thanks to the ABC's
Off the Shelf program, we'd like to draw attention to Isobelle Carmody audio / interview from 2009, where she discusses which books she turns to for inspiration.
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Thanks for letting us post it, ABC!
Isobelle talks about her love of animals, her childhood, when and how she first considered being a writer, and of course Obernewtyn. It offers a wonderful insight into the relationships of the characters we love so much.
Posted on Obernet with approval from fantasybookreview.co.uk/ - thank you Josh & Lee!
On May 23rd 24th, about 30 Obernetters gathered in Sydney for the Sydney Writers' Festival 2009 - to attend the Isobelle Carmody / Garth Nix panel on Sunday.
On the 23rd, during a coffee break at Max Brenners, Min pulled a sneak attack on the Obernetters present, and arrived with Isobelle Carmody in tow! Isobelle spent a good 3 hours with us, chatting about everything and anything!
Thank you Deb and Zieria for taking the time to transcribe this!
Carmody talked about the Obernewtyn Chronicles--and the philosophical questions behind it--in a recent email interview with Heidi of Omnivoracious.com.
Posted on Obernet with approval from omnivoracious.com - thank you Heidi & Tom!
Here's a transcript from the exclusive Obernewtyn.net IC interview, taken place at the Little Fur launch in August '05, which Isobelle Carmody personally invited our members. Emerald, Yvette and Frankie were on the scene and recorded the following! Thanks to Kayt for transcribing it!
Please note, this interview was recorded by Frankie, and transcribed by Kayt, and may not be used anywhere else without those members express permission!
On Monday the 7th of March 2005 I was privileged to go and meet Isobelle Carmody! It was a function held for International Woman's Day and Isobelle was a guest speaker. It was held at All Hallows School in Brisbane City. My friend and I talked to IC during the morning tea break and asked her some questions! I also shook her hand and got three books signed!
This was an interview recorded by Kit when Isobelle went to her school. It was posted on the Theories board on the 19th February 2003, and she consented to us putting it up on the site for everyone to read!!
Thanks for the great interview Kit!
We caught up with Isobelle at the launch of her new book
Darksong, the 2nd book in the Legendsong Trilogy. The event was opened by Richard Harland, author of "Ferren and the Angel", and good friend of Isobelle's. It was held at Twofloorsup, a nightclub in Melbourne on the 20/10/2002.
Despite the large numbers of people there, Isobelle was kind enough to grant us this interview.... and we got some very surprising answers for you all!!
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