Margaret Connolly has been a literary agent for more than twenty years, after giving up a career as a lawyer in the mid-1980s.
She set up her own business in 1992, and since then has developed a client list which resembles a roll-call of Australia's finest novelists, poets, dramatists, non-fiction authors, film-makers, children's writers and illustrators.
She works from home, on a desk which is covered with papers and one very useful computer.
The "Associates" in her company's title consist of her husband, three children and a dog named Arthur.
Congratulations to Judith Clarke, whose young adult novel One Whole And Perfect Day has just been named as one of the four Honour books in the influential American Library Association, Michael L. Printz Awards, for books which “exemplify literary excellence in young adult literature”, the highest US award for young adult literature. This follows the [...]
