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Patrick White c.1940. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

October 4, 2023

Patrick White was the first Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – 50 years later, is he still being read?

Reuben Mackey, Monash University

The aura of a major literary prize will inevitably fade. What we are left with is the work itself.

May 19, 2020

A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic

Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, The University of Melbourne

Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.

An opera based on David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter opens in Sydney this weekend. Carriageworks/Toby Burrows

April 30, 2015

Fly Away Peter: when Australian literature goes to the opera

Michael Halliwell, University of Sydney

Sydney Chamber Opera’s production of David Malouf’s 1982 novel Fly Away Peter opens this weekend. It’s not the first opera adaptation of Australian literature – and there are reasons to hope it’s not the last.

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Michael Halliwell
Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional teacher and PhD Candidate, Literary Studies, Monash University

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