Tag: Australian literature
Jennifer Down wins the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award with Bodies of Light, a shattering novel of loneliness and heartbreak
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Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light is a shattering novel, one that breaks and then rebuilds its readers. It has won the 2022...
A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist
This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared...
Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley’s tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life
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Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several...
Gwen Harwood was one of Australia’s finest poets – she was also one of the most subversive
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Gwen Harwood is one of Australia’s finest poets. Her poetry is studied in secondary schools across the nation. While...
A dystopian or utopian future? Claire G. Coleman’s new novel Enclave imagines both
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I was reading Noongar author Claire G. Coleman’s third novel, Enclave, a few days after the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade judgement,...
How early Australian fairy tales displaced Aboriginal people with mythical creatures and fantasies of empty land
Image: Project Gutenberg - A prince flies in a carriage propelled by kingfishers in Hume Cook’s Australian Fairytales.
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