But what he wrote, he admits, was dreadful – he had no experience, no craft and, crucially, nothing to say.įast forward quite a few years and the Hobart-based writer’s second novel, The Rain Heron, has been named Age Book of the Year, for which he receives a prize of $10,000, thanks to the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Having grown up in a home surrounded by books, with a mother who read to him all the time, it was all he wanted to do.
Robbie Arnott was obsessed with writing when he was younger.
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