Bryce Courtenay

Part 2. On dialogue, plotting and research

Part 1. Writing successful fiction

🕯 Jody Constantine lit a candle RIP Bryce Courtenay, thank you for your books :)

Interview with Bryce Courtenay, part 2

Part 3. Writing family history

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Bryce Courtenay: The last class

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Graduation speech

Part 5. The importance of hard work and adversity

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Part 6. Staying fit for the job

Interview with Bryce Courtenay, part 1

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Part 4. Handling criticism

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Bryce Courtenay's final interview

Thanks Bryce! Your books were so helpful being a male brought up with a lot of anguish like you. Your wisdom helped me through a lot of personal fear and lingering issues from childhood. You also made me aware of how hard it must be to be a woman! I mean in tandia. That poor woman. Made my issues pale away. You were so insp...more

🕯 Judith Barr lit a candle You are an inspirational man Bryce. How lucky we all are that you followed your dream of writing and have shared your brilliant creativity, told so colourfully. I am one if those great full people addicted to your stories. Your writing gifts to us will live on!!!

🌷 Judith Barr gave a flower Daffodils a remember acne of what finally took you away from this life. Also the celebration of spring and the welcome to a new journey

🕯 Linda Hobson lit a candle Thank you for the books..may you rest in eternal peace.

🌷 Academy Funeral Services (Sydney) gave a flower Michelle Sneddon - Thankyou Bryce you are an inspiration to all

🕯 michele oakley lit a candle i will never forget the impact you had on my life Bryce. You were such a wonderful man. Michele

🕯 Carolyn Dolatowski lit a candle A talented man may he rest in peace.

🌷 Donna George George gave a flower Cheers to a great man whom inspired many... RIP to a lovely man!

🌷 Ainslee Gemmill gave a flower Thanks for the wonderful contribution to the world of literature. Condolences to your family.

What a wonderful and inspirational gentleman. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

What an amazing and inspirational person you have been. I am just an avid fan and have loved all the books that I have read (though cannot claim to have read them all, sorry). Your family and friends are blessed to have had you in their life and I am sure have many fond stories to tell. Your memory will live on for the rest of us through your books...more

My mother's final wish was to be read a bedtime story from the book she had been reading it was Solomons Song. The next day she passed away. It was the 23rd one day after you Bryce. Hopefully you will meet and tell her the ending. Thanks for all those wonderful stories.

🕯 Carol Batten lit a candle You gave many of us so much pleasure with your books over the years. I have every one of them and will received you last one for Christmas. A wonderful author and man has gone but won't be forgotten. RIP Bryce

🕯 kerryn taylor lit a candle thank you for many hours of enjoyment from reading your books. R.I.P

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To a wonderful person who gave so much pleasure to so many. You were an inspirational author. R.I.P. Bryce, and I dearly hope my dealing husband gets to meet you up there!

🕯 Selina Simmons lit a candle Thank you for the years of service you gave as both a WONDERFUL author, and for what you acheived when you wrote about your son. It brought AID's to the forefront and its impact on lives. You are a wonderful author, and a true gentleman.

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I never met you and I only ever read your books and I have never forgotten the story of your family and how they dealt with your sons death. You are with him now. Thank you for sharing all you did. My condolences to your family and friends.

You once taught me... that dreaming was essential for having goals and that if I could see it, or visualise it, it could happen, you taught me to believe in myself when I had no support from my mother (who has the same issues your mother did, bipola and very religious and physically and mentally abusive), and was also looking after myself from the ...more