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Trent Dalton ‘My Kids Finally Think I’m Cool!’

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For a debut novel, you can’t get much bigger than Trent Dalton’s semiautobiographical Boy Swallows Universe, which sold by the truckload, won countless awards, was published in 34 countries and has been adapted for stage.

Yet despite its dizzying success,Simon Baker – that his daughters Beth and Sylvie would take any notice of their father’s work. Trent, 44, tells “For them, literary fiction? Forget about it. But Netflix is their life!”

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