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In Question 7, Richard Flanagan writes of the contingencies of history, and troubles the distinction between truth and fabrication.
Despite its neglect, Australian horror is alive and kicking – and crawling on the floor, frightfully howling at the moon, and swimming with creepy serpents in a lake.
Melbourne writer Alex Skovron has been recognised with a national award at 75. Alongside his own work, Skovron’s quiet impact on poets and poetry in Melbourne has been immense.
In The Idealist, the machinations of the Australian government become a sinister backdrop to what seems to be a story of liberation.
Paradise Estate is a good-humoured depiction of the travails of share-house living, with a political edge.
The latest books by Gretchen Shirm and Briony Doyle are preoccupied with the aftermaths of recent deaths.
The aura of a major literary prize will inevitably fade. What we are left with is the work itself.
Verity Laughton’s stage adaptation of Pip Williams’ best-selling book is a a very clever realisation.
A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.
Australian writer Charmian Clift was born 100 years ago today. One rivetting photograph of Clift captures the existential yin and yang explored in her work.
Some fairy tales tell the brutal truth, others offer the hope of a happy ending. Immaculate raises the possibility of both.
Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first book since winning the Windham Campbell Prize may well prove her most enduring.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the book is both more poignant and more life-affirming from the dry bones of the original.
In the 1957 worldwide bestseller, Australia is – briefly – the last habitable place on earth, following a nuclear world war. One character asks, as they wait to die: ‘Why did all this happen to us?’
The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
In speaking to the moment, poets are bringing the apocalypse to Australian literature.
Principales colaboradores
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Literature and Gender Studies, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
