About Gunter Swoboda

Gunter Swoboda

Born in Vienna Austria, Günter and his family migrated to Australia in the early seventies when he was twelve years old.

After settling on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, he immediately acclimatised to the outdoor lifestyle and forged a deep relationship with the ocean that focused on surfing.

This led to an abiding passion and respect for the culture and history of the South Pacific. At university he studied philosophy and psychology and, becoming a counselling psychologist, forged a respected career as a therapist, coach and trainer in his practice on the Northern Beaches.

His ongoing interest in what makes us as humans excel has informed his continuing studies in philosophy and mythology and inspired him to pursue these concepts and ideas within the nature of storytelling. Four years ago, after an influential meeting in Los Angeles with Phil Goldfarb Günter began to devote more of his time and efforts to this interest in human stories, writing a high concept screen play from which he has now adapted the novel Mountains of the Sea, which has just been published and released.

Personally, Günter has been successfully married for over twenty-five years and has two adult children. He continues to explore his relationship to the sea, and when time allows likes to indulge his passion in music.

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Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I am a psychologist in private practice and writer living on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. My passions are my family, my work, the sea, music and history and philosophy.

Describe your book ‘Mountains of the Sea’ in 30 words or less.

Mountains Of The Sea is about Walter Beaumont's watershed voyage of epic proportions that takes him and you through the volatile moods of an historic Hawaiian ocean culture where he comes face to face with political intrigue, war, and the most enigmatic experience for an English aristocrat—that of riding the giant swells of Hawai’i.

What was the hardest part of writing your book?

Getting the time to do the actual writing.

What books have had the greatest influence on you?

Patrick O'Brian's maritime books, Isaac Asimov's stories, The Dune series, Tolkien's books, The Dragon Series by Anne McGaffrey, The Old Man and the Sea and many many more.

Briefly share with us what you do to market your book?

Not a great deal to date which I need to address.

How do you spend your time when you are not writing?

Thinking, working, and surfing.

What are you working on next?

I'm currently rewriting the screenplay of Mountains of the Sea.

Gunter Swoboda

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