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‘Decorating the heavens’: a new Leonard French window sheds light on his masterpiece

In the 1950s and 60s, artists, writers and musicians were drawn to the islands in the Aegean, including Australian writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift, who took up residence on the Greek island of Hydra, as did the young Leonard Cohen.

The Conversation

‘I want to be a Clifty’: Charmian Clift’s unfinished last novel finally gets its moment

More than 60 years after it was put aside to help her husband George Johnston write My Brother Jack, Clift’s novel The End of the Morning is being published

The Guardian - AU

The charismatic, enigmatic Charmian Clift: a writer who lived the dream and confronted its consequences

The centenary of the birth of Charmian Clift takes place on August 30. It comes at a time when the renowned Australian writer is, as they say, having a moment.

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Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

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Aphrodite’s Breath by Susan Johnson review – a revealing memoir about mothers and daughters

A trip to Kythera for the Australian author and her mother results in this unsparing and intimate look at their intense and often unhappy dynamic

The Guardian - AU

‘There’s a raw energy’: Hydra, artists’ haven, still casts its spell

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

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