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Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric . [1]
Julia Blackburn is a British writer who explores the visitable past of people and places in her books. She was born in London, married to a sculptor, and has four children and grandchildren.
Three new books. by Julia Blackburn. Dreaming the Karoo. In the spring of 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam.
Jul 12, 2022 · Dreaming the Karoo review: Julia Blackburn recreates the lost world of the /Xam - New Statesman. Culture. Books. Book of the Day. 12 July 2022. Bringing the dead back to life. The world of South Africa’s /Xam Bushmen blended vision and reality, human and animal – until it was brutally destroyed. By Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor’s Last Island, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Julia Blackburn has 30 books on Goodreads with 9066 ratings. Julia Blackburn’s most popular book is Hubert.
JULIA BLACKBURN is the author of several books of nonfiction, including Old Man Goya, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and With Billie, which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; and of the novels The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize.
