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“John Marsden may well be Australia's most influential author. With more than 30 books and over three million sales, he's certainly one of its most successful. The undisputed king of teenage fiction, his controversial, often dark novels, have bought him a devoted following, and not just in Australia.”
From http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1137536.htm
“JOHN MARSDEN: No. I'm not into writing Australian books. In fact, I don't even use the word 'Australia' in the books. I try and avoid it because I'm not a fan of that kind of flag-waving, 'Waltzing Matilda'-singing, jingoistic patriotism that seems to have infested so many countries. I don't think that's helpful at all. So I try to write about universal situations, universal themes and universal humans. And I really made that decision quite consciously when I started writing, that I wanted to write about the things that have always been important for humans. And those haven't changed really from generation to generation.”
From an interview on the GNT Profiles website: http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1235463.htm
You can learn more about John Marsden and on his website: http://www.johnmarsden.com.au/home.html
The movie Tomorrow, When the War Began based on the novel of the same title, written by John Marsden, is being released for public viewing in Australia on September 2, 2010. The Ampang Library has books by John Marsden available for checkout.
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Australian Author John Marsden will be at ISKL speaking to students on September 22nd and 23rd, 2010. 