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When did you start reading ABR?
That must have been in the mid-1980s (so long ago!). I was running the marketing department at Oxford University Press in Melbourne. A certain future ABR Editor was right next door, marketing the science and medical books. During my years at OUP, the Editor at ABR I had most to do with was Rosemary Sorensen.
Why ABR in particular?
Partly because my best friend runs it! Australian writing is distinctive and uninhibited and it tells the world who we are, why we are and what we are. It is vital that we promote our own literature and ideas to the wider community. ABR does this wonderfully well. It is a strong independent voice promoting Australian literature to a global audience.
What do you enjoy most about the magazine?
The debates, essays, gossip – and learning about books I’d love to read.
Sonja Chalmers, a Romantic Patron since 2007
During Sonja Chalmers’s career in marketing and public relations, she held senior positions at Oxford University and the Victoria State Opera. These days she helps to run two cattle stations in the Northern Territory and is Director of Eastern Desert Art and the Utopian Aboriginal Art website (www.utopian-aboriginalart.com.au).
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