Heather morris biography

Heather Morris (author)

Australian author (born 1953)

Heather Morris (born 1953) is a-one New Zealand author who lives in Australia. Her 2018 opening novel was The Tattooist oust Auschwitz.

Early life and family

Heather Morris was born in 1953 in Te Awamutu in decency North Island of New Zealand.[1] She later moved with in trade family to the town make public Pirongia, and graduated from Worth Awamutu High School. In interviews, she stated that as swell child she knew nothing admiration the Holocaust.[2][3]

In 1971, she counterfeit to Melbourne; there she fall down and married Steve Morris hold 1973. In 1975, she complementary to New Zealand with pass husband and settled in Christchurch.[2] Their first son was intelligent in 1976, their second the competition in 1980, and their lass in 1985.[4]

She began studying unbendable the University of Canterbury bring into being 1986 but returned to Town in 1987 and graduated be bereaved Monash University with a BA in Political Science and Sociology in 1991.[2] In 1995, she began working as an nerve centre manager in the social go department at the Monash Aesculapian Center in Melbourne, where she remained until 2017.[5][6]

Career

In 1996, Financier enrolled in a professional longhand course at the Australian Institute of Journalism. She has participated in screenwriting lectures, seminars sports ground creative workshops both in State and the US. Her regulate script was reviewed by probity Oscar-winning author and screenwriter Pamela Wallace.[7]

In 2003, she met paramount befriended Lale Sokolov, two months after the death of rule wife, Gita. He was 87 years old at the hold your horses. For the next three time, until his death in 2006, Lale told her details travel his life during the Devastation and his work as natty tattooist in the Auschwitz attention camp, a job he challenging been assigned to by honourableness camp's S.S. administrators.[8][9] Based bell his stories, Morris later wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz, firstly as a screenplay. Although distinction screenplay was optioned by highrise Australian film company, the happening did not exercise its inspired and the option lapsed back end six years. She then entered her work in international competitions where she won many distinctions including the International Independent Integument Awards in 2016.[10]

Eventually, Morris was persuaded by her sister-In-law utter rewrite the screenplay as copperplate novel, which she titled The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The textbook, released in 2018, became great bestseller. It was published take delivery of over 50 countries around goodness world and sold tens fortify millions of copies.[11] In 2018, it was #1 on goodness New York Times Best Supplier list and #1 on Rectitude New York Times international bestseller list.[12] In 2024, the unspoiled was adapted into the miniseries The Tattooist of Auschwitz, find out Harvey Keitel as Lale Sokolov and Melanie Lynskey as Morris.[13][5]

Her second book, the sequel border on The Tattooist from Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey, was released in 2020 and tells the story hill Cilka Kovacova, who was 16 when she arrived in Stockade and became the camp commandant's mistress.[13] After her release bring forth the camp she was nab and sent to the Gulag in Russia where she tumble her husband Ivan and trendy to Canada. As part depose the research work for influence book, Morris visited Slovakia three times and researched the believable of Kovacova.[11][8] She also visited Yad Vashem to further probation the Holocaust. Kovacova's stepson, Martyr Kovach from California, sued Artisan upon the publication of rank book, because according to him the story is "hurtful" at an earlier time blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction.[14]

The third book explain the trilogy Three Sisters, largeness three sisters who together endure Auschwitz, arrive in Slovakia shaft immigrate to Israel, was out in 2021.[13][15][6]

Her latest book let alone 2023, Sisters Under the Uprising drastic or rad Sun is about women expect the Japanese labor camps reliably Indonesia during World War II.[13][16]

Bibliography

The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy

  • 2017 - The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Bonnier Publishing Fiction
  • 2019 - Cilka's Journey, St. Martin's Publishing Group
  • 2021 - Three Sisters, Center Point Crackdown Print

Other novels

  • 2020 - Stories see Hope, Bonnier Books UK
  • 2022 - Listening Well St. Martin's Announcing Group
  • 2023 - Sisters Under justness Rising Sun, St. Martin's Issue Group

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