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| Elka’s first novel, Hanoi Jane, was published by Marshall Cavendish in 2010. She is the author and illustrator of three kids' books: Vietnam A to Z, Vietnam 1,2,3! and The Gecko Who Grew and Grew (Phan Tri Press. Her travel writing has appeared in a wide range of international magazines and guidebooks. Elka divides her time between Victoria, Canada and HCM City, Vietnam, with both of these settings providing inspiration for her writing. Please visit her website at elkaray.com |
| Literary fiction Commerical fiction: Mystery & Romance Travel writing |
| Elka's writing is poignant, suspenseful and darkly funny. Having been a magazine editor for 13 years, she values precision. |
| Elka's willingness to read anything from The Economist or The Guardian to People is mirrored in her fiction, which ranges from serious topics like racism to entertaining "fluff". Elka loves to travel, to swim in tropical oceans and to draw. |
| Literary fiction Mystery & suspense |
| Great Expectations, Charles Dickens In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje Eve Green, Susan Fletcher The Sweet Hereafter,Russel Banks The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak |
| Michael Ondaatje Margaret Atwood Alice Munro Rohinton Mistry |
| Yehuda Amichai Keats |
| "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." -Niels Bohr |
| Billie Holliday,Dinah Washington, U2,The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady Gaga |
| The Killing Fields O Brother Where Art Thou? Into the Wild |
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