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Tim Dayman
Born in Adelaide in 1961 into a family of actors, Tim had an early introduction to the power of words via the stage and the literature that lined the bookshelves of the living room. The uniquely pr...view moreBorn in Adelaide in 1961 into a family of actors, Tim had an early introduction to the power of words via the stage and the literature that lined the bookshelves of the living room. The uniquely progressive government of the 1970s encouraged creative expression which Tim explored through drawing and reading the giants of Russian and French literature and working backwards to the classical masters of Homer and Herodotus then the works of Virgil and Dante, firing his imagination as the impressionable teenager he was. Having left Adelaide in 1984 to settle in Sydney he worked at the Sydney Opera House for 25 years in live theatre, toying with poetry and novelistic scenarios all the while. Moving to Tasmania in 2014 he was convinced plunged him into a melancholia which conversely inspired him to pen, over five years the novel we have before us today.view less