To Breathe: & other stories for young & old

by Antonia Hildebrand

Overview

'In this collection the reader discovers an inquisitive mind equally as concerned for world issues as for the dull conformity that can settle over small towns. Antonia's writing artfully moves from well researched topics to finely tuned observations of everyday life.' - Hilary Beaton

'Her insights have touched on a range of important issues and her insights are always engaging, revealing and pure in their honesty about life.' - Tara Vickers, producer, Radio National

'In my opinion Antonia Hildebrand stands out as one of the top dozen or so short story writers in contemporary Australia.' - Chas Eales, Radio 91.3 FM

'Sometimes Hildebrand moves beyond reality, but she does not so much create a fantasy, as show the familiar landscape through the distorting mirror of a fairground tent.’ - Robin Hillard

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760411619
Publisher:	Debbie Lee
Publication date:	06/19/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	148
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Antonia Hildebrand is a poet, short story writer and essayist. She was born and educated in Toowoomba, Queensland. After her marriage to Reinhard Hildebrand she moved with him to Hamburg, Germany. She lived and worked in Europe for three years and also travelled in Europe and Asia before returning to Australia. She then studied at the Toowoomba Technical College, going to evening classes before gaining admission to the University of Queensland. She graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1987 with majors in both German and English literature. In 1993 she graduated Master of Letters (German) from the University of New England. Her first published short story, Nothing Ever Happens, appeared in Woman's Day in 1981 and Downs Images in 1982 and she has since been widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies in Australia as well as Britain and the USA. Her poems have appeared in Coppertales, Iodine Poetry Journal USA, Poetrix, Harvester and Squidink. Her short stories have appeared in Downs Images, Woman's Day, Shortz, First Edition Magazine, Tirra Lirra and Four W Seventeen. An essay on John Howard, Ordinary Australians, was published in Overland in 2003. In 1998 she won the University of Southern Queensland Library Poetry Prize and in 1999 the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award. In 2002 she began contributing to Radio National's Bush Telegraph program. Many of her short stories have been broadcast by Queensland Storyteller on Radio 4RPH and by Words and Music on Radio 91.3 FM. Her Radio National pieces and her film reviews and essays were collected for her book, The Past is Another Country: Viewpoints, Essays&Reviews published in 2003. She has also explored growing to adulthood, living in Europe and returning to Australia in her memoir Beautiful Life. In 2004 she co-wrote, with John Boshammer, Boshy and Me - a biography of his Rugby legend father, Kev Boshammer. A poetry collection, The Sweet Time, was published in 2006. Her most recent book, The Blind Colossus, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2015. Her next book Underclass/Overclass: Twenty Essays on Oppression is a work in progress.