FRANCISKA SOARES

This is Franciska Soares’ debut into the world of Fiction, after having achieved undreamt-of success in the non-fiction space with her publishers: Hachette UK. A decades-old time lag – during which her artistic impulse has lain dormant, bookended by ‘life’ – is what she draws on: The turning points, The high-noon’s, The knife-edges, The quotidian, all experienced in three disparate countries: India, The UAE and New Zealand, where she presently resides. In returning to writing she says she has found her native language that has afforded her an ‘in’ to be in. It is the torch – ‘not directed at the root of things, but a subtle mist where the unseeable is revealed’ – that has helped her find her way home. A teacher with a double Masters (Education and Commerce), Franciska lives quietly in Queenstown, The Aspen of The Southern Hemisphere.