Name: Brigid Lowry
Date of birth: 25 March 1953
Place of birth: Auckland
Now living in: Nelson
- What is your favourite food?
- My favourite meal would be grilled salmon with buttery mashed potato and fresh asparagus. Sticky date pudding with cream, and a glass of champagne.
- Do you have a nickname and if so what is it?
- When I was a baby I was nick-named Wol because I was chubby and owly like the Owl in Winnie The Pooh. Now I am a grown-up I don't have a nick-name.
- What was your most embarrassing moment?
- Too many to name! Sometimes my mouth moves quicker than my brain. Oops!
- How do you relax?
- Reading, walking, day-dreaming, movies, music, travel, picnics.
- Who inspired you when you were little?
- Fabulous books and interesting, creative people.
- What were you like at school?
- Quiet, awkward, shy, plain.
- What was your favourite/most hated subject at school?
- Favourite: English
Most hated: Maths - What was the book you most loved as a child?
- I liked The Hobbit, by J. R .R. Tolkien, Bunchy (author unknown), Drover's Road, by Joyce West, and The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.
- Which person from the past would you most like to meet?
- Frida Kahlo. Janis Joplin.
- Who is your favourite author/children's author?
- I can't name just one. I have heaps of authors I love to read. Oh, all right then… Barbara Kingsolver and Russell Hoban.
- Why did you want to be a writer?
- I love books, words, poetry, stories and ideas. I like not working 9-5, and being paid to tell fibs.
- Do you have a special place where you write your books?
- I write at my computer in my study, surrounded by things I love, like photographs, things made of blue glass, coloured pencils.
- What's the best thing and worst thing about being a writer?
- It's creative and you get to sleep in! (best). Sometimes it is very lonely and hard to think of new things to write about (worst).
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If you weren't a writer, what would you like to be? - A jazz singer or a rich person who lived in the Caribbean and swam, ate, read and snorkelled all day.
- What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
- Read a lot. Apply lots of bum glue. Believe in yourself. Then go for it.