The subtle art of collaboration (Inside Story)
Inside Story
English - April 13, 2012 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBEducation categories csv swinburne commons level3 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Australia's twenty-second prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, defeated in 1983 by Bob Hawke after almost eight years in office, has remained a significant public figure. But he has written little about the often-turbulent events of his long political career. Now comes an autobiography written not by Malcolm Fraser alone, but in collaboration with the journalist and writer, Margaret Simons. Together they've produced Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, written in the third person and bearing all the hallmarks of rigorous research and journalistic method. How did this process actually work? Peter Clarke asked Margaret Simons to reflect on a challenging co-writing experience. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story web site, 14 April 2010.