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Clare Atkins


Born
Sydney, Australia
Website

Genre
Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary


Atkins is an author, scriptwriter, script editor and produce. Born and raised in Sydney, she has also lived in Bathurst (for university), on a small Spanish island called La Gomera, and in Arnhem Land. She currently lives in Darwin.

She has also written for many successful Australian television dramas, including All Saints, Home & Away, Headland, Winners & Losers and Wonderland.

She has a teaching degree, and loves running workshops about scriptwriting and creative writing in general.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 2,222 ratings · 338 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Between Us
3.98 avg rating — 1,095 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions
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“In Farsi we ask: Haal-e shomaa chetoreh? It is the same: how are you? But when I answer, when I am little, my father never let me say good or okay. Because he says he is asking about the feeling, you know... like, how is your heart?"
"My heart is happy," I say, "Happy you called.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us
tags: farsi, happy, language
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“It's a fucking jail! A jail for people who've done nothing wrong except come here by boat. It's not even fucking illegal - did you know that?”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us
tags: australia, incarceration, refugees, torture
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“And there's a good chance the only one day I'll get is here and now.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us
tags: refugees
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