Simmone Howell pays tribute to the life and work of ‘kind and hilarious gem’ Gabrielle Williams, acclaimed Australian author of young adult fiction, who died on Saturday.
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Edwina Preston tells why her favourite literary heroine is Seven Little Australians’ Judy Woolcot and her ‘bone-true authenticity of self’ – beating fellow tomboys Jo March and Anne Shirley.
An exceptionally talented writer, Shirley Hazzard is cherished for her novels The Great Fire and The Transit of Venus. Her life defends the right to be unfashionable and the value of learning.
The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The awards are contentious – but are fought over precisely because of their symbolic and enduring cultural function
In her essay on the work of Tim Winton, Geraldine Brooks is looking for a punch-up with academics and critics.
Kim Mahood understands that frontiers have always been places of interchange, where overt power disparities often come disquietingly undone.
The question behind Tom Keneally’s latest novel is how a political idealist striving for his country’s freedom could end up supporting slavery.
Antigone Kefala’s brilliant fiction, memoir and poetry is written in a new revived English.
With its lovingly rendered characters and sharp aphoristic prose, Sweeney and the Bicycles is a study in radical self-absorption.
Robbie Arnott’s third novel, Limberlost, is an exquisitely written tale of human and ecological destruction, with a thread of hope.
In Emperors in Lilliput, Jim Davidson examines legacy of Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.
A story of ‘falling upwards’, Childhood examines the author’s painful memories with detachment and unsparing honesty.
A panoramic tale and an in-depth character study, Iris immerses its readers in a world of impoverishment and struggle.
The public image of Gwen Harwood as a suburban housewife is belied by the raw sensuality of her erotic poetry. And in her personal life, she claimed her right to move – and love – where she would.
Shaun Prescott’s second novel is a gothic tale of skin-crawling, psychological dysfunction.
Siang Lu’s debut novel suggests whitewashing Asians for the screen is profitable. ‘People pay to see foreignness repackaged as stereotypes – and thus rendered virtually invisible.’
Les Murray’s habit of rearranging and recontexualising his poetry was a reflection of his distinctive way of perceiving the world.
In his third book, An Ordinary Ecstasy, Luke Carman conducts an immersive conversation with literature and life.
Miles Franklin Award winning novelist Amanda Lohrey explores the political and the personal in a way that makes her unique among contemporary Australian writers.
A blend of fact and fiction, Nimblefoot imagines the life of a long forgotten Australian sporting hero.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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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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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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