Ern Malley was born out of a competitive and often vicious striving to see which vision of Australian national literature would emerge victorious.
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A bildungsroman condensed into three months, The Honeyeater follows a meek young woman as she struggles to establish her identity.
The complex, haunting stories in Highway 13 are centred around a series of murders. There are echoes throughout of the ‘backpacker murders’ committed by Ivan Milat.
Praiseworthy is the defining work written on this continent so far this century. It defies classification.
No Church in the Wild is an ambitious novel that traverses cultures and institutions, and prompts readers to question their values.
In their different ways, these three poets demonstrate how to transform everyday realities into art.
Espionage fiction is Australia’s unloved genre, but how we speak, write and think about Australia’s intelligence gathering and espionage activities matters.
Too Many Men won acclaim for its depiction of a father and daughter and their different emotional responses to the crimes of the past. Tess Scholfield-Peters considers the book’s impact today.
Three years apart in age, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower were both formed as writers by the fact of being Australian-born women.
War writing can be formulaic and clichéd, but Catherine McKinnon resists glorification and the usual narrative of “us against them” .
The intriguing stories in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Astronauts bring obscure historical footnotes to life.
Safe Haven is an excoriating account of a shameful period of Australian history, told in a life-affirming voice that imagines a more humane future.
This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
An 8000-km hitchhiking trip is at the heart of Anna Broinowski’s Datsun Angel. Dominic Gordon, in contrast, kicks his young self around Melbourne’s alleys like a half-squashed can of energy drink.
For poet Robert Adamson, the natural world offered a form of deliverance.
The End of the Morning is Charmian Clift’s most successful piece of fiction. But it is only a piece and one that leaves two matters unresolved.
Winnie Dunn has made it her project to bring a more sensitive intercultural understanding to an unfamiliar readership
Australian literature is a rich and largely untapped source of information about how Australians think about AI.
At a time when women had limited rights, writers found ways to raise the issues of coercion and control.
To ask whether 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem is a collection of poems or a single long poem is to step through the looking glass.
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Dean of Research (Creative), Adelaide University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of English, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing and English, Edith Cowan University