![]() The last of his six previous crime novels, eXXXpresso, appeared in 2000 since when the writer and musician has been working for the big and small screens. If Viskic's success at the Davitts represents the emergence of a significant new Australian crime-writing talent, winning the Ned for best novel for Before it Breaks represents a return to the fold for Dave Warner. I can hold a conversation – like a child." She's not exactly fluent: "One of the characters, his ex-cop friend Frankie, probably has the same level of Auslan as me. That was a huge boon to me as a writer and wonderful to be introduced to this whole other world I barely knew existed." "He had to use Auslan with the people he loves because it's a way of him being comfortable and showing his relationships. So Viskic had to retrospectively research her character's deafness and that involved learning Auslan. Also for the technical reason of how do I make this work, and the third reason was that I was really nervous about writing a caricature, a tokenistic character." Harvey Award, and the New England Thunderbolt Prize for her short form fiction, and has been published in Award Winning Australian Writing. A lot of people do the visual first, but I do dialogue and my early drafts are like a script. Interview by Nicole Melanson Emma Viskic is the author of the critically acclaimed crime novel, Resurrection Bay (Echo Publishing, 2015). "I am a classical musician so sound is the way I approach writing. But writing a deaf character did not appeal. ![]()
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