Archival Days by Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch (1932-2013) was born and educated in Tasmania. Most of his life was spent in Sydney, where he worked for some years as a radio producer in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
He was a full-time writer from 1972, winning international praise and a number of awards for his novels. One of his novels, The Year of Living Dangerously, was made into a film by Peter Weir.
Koch twice won the Miles Franklin Award for fiction: for The Doubleman and Highways to a War.
In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature. - Source
This is an essay by the Tasmanian writer Christopher Koch written in 1992 as part of a collection in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Sitwell, AM, Curator of the Allport Library and Museum of Fines Arts, State Library of Tasmania (Tasmanian Insights, State Library of Tasmania, 1992).
