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Heather Morris (born 1953) is a New Zealand author who lives in Australia. Her 2018 debut novel was The Tattooist of Auschwitz . Early life and family [ edit ]
My latest novel, Sisters under the Rising Sun, tells the story of a group of women from Australia, England, the Netherlands and beyond, who were captured by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 and held in brutal conditions in a camp in the Indonesian jungle. Based mainly upon the real-life experiences of Australian nurse Sister Nesta James and ...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. [1] The story is based on the real lives of Sokolov and his wife, Gita Furman.
About Heather. I was born in 1953 in Te Awamutu, a small rural town in the middle of the New Zealand’s North Island. I had an older brother, then three more boys followed. My childhood was spent in the even smaller village of Pirongia, with four generations of my family living within close proximity of one another.
Heather Morris is a New Zealand born Australian based author of historical fiction novels. For years, Heather studied and wrote screenplays. In 2003, the author met Lale Sokolov and their friendship forever transformed Heather Morris life and led her to publish her debut novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Three Sisters is a beautiful story of hope in the hardest of times and of finding love after loss. Heather Morris is the global bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey, which have sold eight million copies worldwide. Three Sisters is her third novel, and the final piece in the phenomenon that is the Tattooist of ...
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I originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into my debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was ...
