Jane Rawson

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jane Rawson

There is something about Tasmania that makes it a place where people want to restore the past, and not just because Tasmanians still regularly report seeing thylacines bounding off into the forest. Certainly, it’s a retro kind of place. The landed gentry are still a thing, the powerful families of modern Tasmania tracing their ancestry back to the original squatters, who either took the land by force or bought it from the colonial government, no questions asked.

Oct 29, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Jane Rawson

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Oct 29, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jane Rawson

Some time in the late 1990s, a man is hiking through Tasmania’s Central Plateau, hoping to kill a thylacine. He’s a mainlander, and he has come to a Tasmania that no longer exists: before MONA, before Jetstar, before secret saunas and mountain bike trails, before the Tasmanian Forest Agreement, before Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize.

Aug 16, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Jane Harrison |Fiona McFarlane |Mirandi Riwoe |Jane Rawson

Your first novel, A Treacherous Country, was set in 1840s Van Diemen’s Land—the island we now call Tasmania. Your new, Weatherglass Novella Prize-winning Astraea, takes place on a convict ship bound for the Antipodes. So what attracts you to writing historical fiction—and do you think that Australia offers an unusually evocative setting? I do. Or, I think that anywhere can offer an evocative setting when you start to delve into the history of a place.

Jan 28, 2024 | wild.com.au | Jane Rawson

2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of this special reserve by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.