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Jana Wendt is a journalist and writer. Her feature writing has appeared in a broad range of publications and she has worked for every Australian television network as a senior reporter and presenter, and as a contributing correspondent for the American CBS Network’s 60 Minutes. Wendt has interviewed many key newsmakers, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Benazir Bhutto, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Yasser Arafat. In the arts, her subjects have included pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim; opera star Cecilia Bartoli; writer Norman Mailer and jazz diva Cleo Laine. Jana Wendt has published two books of non-fiction. The Far Side of the Moon is her first book of fiction.
'A masterfully wrought series of portraits: wise, elegant and surprising.' * Amanda Lohrey, Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The Labyrinth * ‘An elegant collection, sometimes delightful, funny, and always observant of the human condition via the smallness of everyday lives.’ * Guardian * ‘Jana Wendt knows her way around a story, her new Parth as an author of sharp, playful, unforgettable short stories is a revelation.’ * Michael Williams, QANTAS Magazine * ‘ …An astute and an assured and an empathetic insight into human nature…Thought provoking, well written, I can highly recommend.’ * RNZ Nine to Noon *
