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Amra Pajalic

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Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, educator, and PhD researcher of Bosnian heritage whose work explores how fiction represents the Bosnian genocide.

Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, now re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories.

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Amra Pajalic Usually writer's block for me is emotional exhaustion and creative fatigue so I need to take a time out, read some amazing books and slowly re-fill my…moreUsually writer's block for me is emotional exhaustion and creative fatigue so I need to take a time out, read some amazing books and slowly re-fill my creative well. Then I need to give myself permission to write really, really badly in order to write at all. The more I write, even if it's badly, the more the muse comes back to life. Sometimes if I can't write I type lyrics to songs until the little voice in my head returns.(less)
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“She was a victim of her own brain chemistry, and as her daughter my role was to accept and love her for who she was, not who I wanted her to to be.”
Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“Our mother was different, but that’s what we liked about her. While other children had strict routines and consequences, we had freedom and frivolity— and we didn’t want the party to end.”
Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

“While I’d had many upheavals during my young life, the one constant and been my mother. Now that she was in another country and completely lost to me, I realised how much she was a part of me. Missing her was like a physical ache that I could not assuage.”
Amra Pajalic, Things Nobody Knows But Me

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