Full disclosure: the Australian writer Markus Zusak and I have been friends for almost 20 years, both our lives changed by the publication of our Holocaust-themed novels The Book Thief and The Boy ...
By New Statesman Markus Zusak was born in 1975 in Sydney. He is an award-winning author, best known for his 2005 novel The Book Thief which was adapted into a film of the same name in 2013. The smell ...