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Max Harris and Joy Hester, Melbourne, c.1943. Albert Tucker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80

Ern Malley was born out of a competitive and often vicious striving to see which vision of Australian national literature would emerge victorious.
Spanish authors (from left), Agustin Martinez, Jorge Diaz and Antonio Mercero, who have been writing bestsellers as Carmen Mola. Quique Garcia/EPA

What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters

A true hoax provokes. It questions cultural biases, shattering conventions. But the curious case of the three men writing as a female author Carmen Mola does none of this.

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