Gerald Murnane – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation

Articles on Gerald Murnane

Displaying all articles

September 7, 2023

Homemade and cosmopolitan, the idiosyncratic writing of Gerald Murnane continues to attract devotees

Brigid Rooney, University of Sydney

A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.

Gerald Murnane has long been recognised as one of Australia’s finest writers. Ben Denham

December 5, 2018

Gerald Murnane’s Prime Minister’s Literary award is long overdue

Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University

This award to a long neglected writer shows that there is still a place in Australian life for works of art that challenge us to think.

This quest is frequently represented as the illusion created by flat landscapes, by plains, with the promise on the horizon. Monash University

May 20, 2014

The case for Gerald Murnane’s The Plains

Paul Genoni, Curtin University

It could be claimed (and I am about to) that Gerald Murnane’s 1982 novel The Plains has the most compelling opening in Australian fiction: Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my…

Top contributors

Anthony Uhlmann
Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Paul Genoni
Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Brigid Rooney
Associate Professor (Affiliate), Australian Literature, University of Sydney

Articles on Gerald Murnane

Displaying all articles

Related Topics

Top contributors

Links