{"id":71536,"date":"2017-04-27T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=71536"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:06:27","slug":"podcast-discover-inspiration-behind-marija-pericics-2017-vogel-award-winning-lost-%c2%adpages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/podcast-discover-inspiration-behind-marija-pericics-2017-vogel-award-winning-lost-%c2%adpages\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Discover the inspiration behind Marija Peri\u010di\u0107’s 2017 Vogel Award-winning The Lost \u00adPages."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 was awarded the 2017 Australian\/Vogel\u2019s Literary Award for her novel The Lost Pages<\/em><\/a>, an inspired fictional memoir of Czech writer Max Brod and his relationship with Franz Kafka.
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Established in 1980, The Australian\/Vogel\u2019s Literary Award is Australia\u2019s oldest, richest and most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under thirty-five years. The Award has launched the careers of some of Australia\u2019s most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Mandy Sayer, Andrew McGahan and Rohan Wilson. Many have gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize, and the Booker Prize.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s judges were Stephen Romei (literary editor, The Australian<\/em>), Rohan Wilson (award-winning author of The Roving Party<\/em> and To Name Those Lost<\/em>) and Jenny Barry (bookseller from BooksPlus, Bathurst). The Lost Pages<\/em> was the judges\u2019 clear choice to win.<\/p>\n

Listen<\/a> to John Purcell and Ben Hunter chat with Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 about her award-winning book | Order <\/a>your signed copy now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 visited Booktopia to sign copies of The Lost Pages. While stocks last.<\/p><\/div>\n

About The Lost Pages<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is 1908 and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague\u2019s literary world. Everything he desires – fame, respect, love – is finally within his reach. But when a rival appears on the scene, Max discovers how quickly he can lose everything he has worked so hard to attain. He knows that newcomer, Franz Kafka, has the power to eclipse him for good, and he must decide what lengths he will go to hold onto his success.<\/p>\n

The Lost Pages<\/em> is a richly imagined story of the friendship, fraud, jealously and betrayal within an extraordinary literary rivalry. As judge Rohan Wilson noted…<\/p>\n

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\u201cthe author really understands how tension works. It never lets up. From the very beginning, the strain between Kafka and Brod is hugely entertaining. Brod is anti-social and prefers his own company, just like the best of Kafka\u2019s characters. He is drawn with remarkable clarity.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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About Marija Peri\u010di\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 grew up in Perth, Western Australia, the child of German and Croatian immigrants. She now lives in Melbourne where she teaches English as a foreign language. The Lost Pages<\/em> is her first novel.<\/p>\n

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Last night Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 was awarded the 2017 Australian\/Vogel\u2019s Literary Award for her novel The Lost Pages, an inspired fictional memoir of Czech writer Max Brod and his relationship with Franz Kafka. Established in 1980, The Australian\/Vogel\u2019s Literary Award is Australia\u2019s oldest, richest and most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under thirty-five years. The Award has launched the careers of some of Australia\u2019s most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Mandy Sayer, Andrew McGahan and Rohan Wilson. Many have gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize, and the Booker Prize. This year\u2019s judges were Stephen Romei (literary editor, The Australian), Rohan Wilson (award-winning author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost) and Jenny Barry (bookseller from BooksPlus, Bathurst). The Lost Pages was the judges\u2019 clear choice to win. Listen to John Purcell and Ben Hunter chat with Marija Peri\u010di\u0107 about her award-winning book | Order your signed copy now! About The Lost Pages It is 1908 and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague\u2019s literary world. Everything he desires – fame, respect, love – is finally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":71580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,39,73],"tags":[7441,7440,7426,7427,7442],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781760296865-the-lost-pages-social-vogel-440x220.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71536"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71598,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536\/revisions\/71598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}