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.
Kenrick Mills/Unsplash 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.