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Robert Hillman


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Australia
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Robert Hillman is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction and biography. His autobiography THE BOY IN THE GREEN SUIT won the Australian National Biography Award for 2005. His critically acclaimed MY LIFE AS A TRAITOR (written with Zarha Ghahramani) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2008 and was published widely overseas.
After many years of teaching in high schools and university, Robert Hillman now works as a full-time writer. He has three children and lives in Warburton, in Victoria's Yarra Valley.

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The Bride of Almond Tree
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Malini
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Gurrumul
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Joyful
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The Deepest Part of the Lake
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A Life of Days
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“Hannah enjoyed watching as he read; she barely cared what it was she'd given him. Or maybe that wasn't true. She did care. But the way he held a book in his hands, and the frown of concentration on his brow, kindled love in her heart. She wanteed to stroke him as he read. The altering expressions on his face were like cloud shadows passing over a landscape.”
― Robert Hillman, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
tags: books, love
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“Love and loathing can hold no surprises for most people in middle age. What we haven't gorged on, we've sampled.”
― Robert Hillman, Joyful
tags: loathing, love, middle-age
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“Hannah was full of admiration for Tom's knowledge...He'd come to understand, though, that it wasn't really flattery; instead it was a sort of delight that was roused in Hannah for anything she didn't know; anything new to her. She could never come to the end of all that pleased her.”
― Robert Hillman, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
tags: curiosity, delight, learning
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