Gabriel Farago Reviews

From the Blue Danube to the Blue Mountains; a author’s travel

As a lawyer with a passion for history and archaeology, Gabriel had to wait for several years before having the ability to pursue another passion—writing—in earnest. But, his love of storytelling and books started long before that.

‘I recall as a young boy reading biographies and history books using a torch under the mattress covers,’ he examines, ‘and then composing stories about archaeologists and explorers the following day, rather than doing homework. Whilst I regularly got into trouble with this, I think we could just do well in our endeavours when we are enthusiastic about what we love; because of me, writing has become a fire. ’

Produced in Budapest, Gabriel climbed up in post-War Europe, and after fleeing Hungary together with his parents throughout the Revolution 56, he went to college in Austria before arriving in Australia as a teen. This enabled him to develop into multi-lingual and sense ‘in house’ in different countries and diverse cultures. Shaped by a very long legal career and experiences spanning several decades and continents, he's an adult voice which speaks in many tongues.
Gabriel holds degrees in literature and law, speaks several languages also requires research and authenticity very badly. Inquisitive by nature, he analyzed Egyptology and learned to read the hieroglyphs. He travels extensively and visits each one of the places mentioned in his novels.

‘I attempt to weave fact and fiction into a seamless story,’ he explains. ‘From blurring the boundaries between both, the reader is not quite sure where one ends, and the other begins. This is obviously very deliberate as it creates the illusion of credibility and truth in a job that's pure fiction. An effective work of fiction is really a balancing act: fact need to rub shoulders with imagination in a w

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