Rosalie Ham is known for her bestselling debut novel, The Dressmaker, which was adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet in the lead role.
14 Facts About Rosalie Ham
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Rosalie Ham's novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into a number of languages.
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Rosalie Ham worked as a nurse for twenty-one years until October 2005, when the nursing home she worked at closed down.
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Rosalie Ham completed a Bachelor of Education majoring in Drama and Literature in 1989.
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Rosalie Ham wrote four plays but soon find out that " didn't want to write plays because I didn't like the theatre thing".
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Rosalie Ham graduated from RMIT with an Advanced Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing in 1996, and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 2007.
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Several of Rosalie Ham's novels are international bestsellers, and have been translated into a number of languages.
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Rosalie Ham released her second novel, Summer at Mount Hope, in 2005.
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Rosalie Ham wrote the novel, like her debut The Dressmaker, while studying a creative writing course at RMIT University.
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Rosalie Ham has written short stories for various Australian publications, including Meanjin, The Age, and The Bulletin.
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All of Rosalie Ham's novels have been set in small communities of Australia.
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Rosalie Ham has admitted that if she wrote an urban novel, her style of writing would be changed with the change in landscape, which she does not want to do.
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Rosalie Ham initially sold the film rights of The Dressmaker in the mid-2000s and wrote a screenplay, but the project never took off.
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Producer Sue Maslin had been at school with Rosalie Ham and reconnected with the author after the initial project was shelved.