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Anna Snoekstra is an author and screenwriter living in Melbourne, Victoria. Her novels have been published in twenty countries and many different languages.

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The Doorway to the Deep; the History of Freediving

The history of freediving is simultaneously tragic and poetic; as a practice, put quite simply, it’s nothing short of unbelievable. Here, Anna Snoekstra takes us back in time and far underwater to understand the breadth of this otherworldly activity—from the beauty of passing down ancient traditions in Japan to the struggles of Western Australia's Indigenous divers.

The Art of Capturing Taiwan; the Craft of Translating It

Anna Snoekstra speaks with author Wu Ming-Yi and his translator Darryl Sterk about language, Taiwan’s history and the translation of Ming-Yi’s latest novel “The Stolen Bicycle.”

The Sounds of Tokyo; a City of Records

Anna Snoekstra guides us through the city’s unmarked independent record shops and music megastores in search of those rare finds.

‘Famiglia’: a Tale Told Through Food

Food, over family, brings the characters together in Natalia Ginzburg’s 1977 dissection of the Roman middle-class.

Working as a Literary Agent in New York—a City Where Books Live and Breathe

Novelist Anna Snoekstra turns the tables on her literary agent, MacKenzie Fraser-Bub, to discover the city’s literary highlights, what she’s looking for in a manuscript, and the hidden parks where one can find a little solitude.