 Rosanne was born in Malta, where she received her education and her most significant youthful experiences. She was there when Malta became independent from Britain in 1964, and witnessed the country's introduction to republic status in 1971. Speaking three languages fluently from childhood, the cocktail of cultures of her early life became inseparable from how she understood the world. Emigrating to Australia in 1982 confounded a number of long-held presumptions about culture, freedom, what it means to be a woman, and the whole business of becoming an author. Her first published piece, in 1985, when she was living in Narrandera, NSW, set her on a one-way journey towards life as a writer, which she has tried several times to give up, without success. It led her at different times to jobs that consistently confirmed the publishing industry endures swift and sudden changes, and is as full as other things in life of rogues, angels and every other kind of creature in between. She has met the full gamut, from sour scoundrels to sweet spirits. Her first novel, Death in Malta, was written quickly, but took years to edit to its present form. According to Luke was a labour of intensity, love and discovery. She still cannot get over what hard work writing a novel is, compared to anything else, except perhaps running a family, which is just as incomprehensible and liable to change as the publishing industry. |
Rosanne Dingli is an award-winning
Western Australian novelist, author of Death in Malta, According to Luke, six collections of short stories and a book of collected poems. She has had numerous articles, stories,
reviews, columns and poems published Australia-wide and on the internet
since 1986. She has worked as teacher, lecturer, workshop coordinator,
magazine and corporate editor, travel consultant, cook, manuscript
assessor, heraldic artist and business partner. She has travelled widely
in Italy, the UK, Turkey, Greece, South East Asia, Holland, and
Belgium, as well as most Australian states.  Dingli's understated manner embeds ideas in sharp representations of experience, and her intelligence shows everywhere. Prof Dennis Haskell Chair of English, University of Western Australia Editor of Westerly
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