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Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
Interest in Allen’s latest album goes beyond celebrity gossip, resonating with audiences for its raw contemplation of contemporary heterosexuality.
The process of telling our truth may be cathartic at the time, but it can also re-open old wounds.
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
Stand-up comedy has always been autobiographical, but now a new generation of comedians are adapting their lives (or some version of it) into scripted series.
The six books on this year’s Miles Franklin shortlist vary in style, themes and the writers’ experience, with veteran novelists and debuts – including an international prize-winner and a 26-year-old.
Margeurite Duras’s fictionalised account of a teenage affair with a much older Chinese man has been criticised as a kind of retro-Orientalist Lolita. But that does her iconic novel an injustice.
Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Writing from lived experience often has legitimacy, but autofiction has fictional elements that trouble the autobiographical pact.
Annie Ernaux is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her autofiction masterpiece, The Years, has been called a modern In Search of Lost Time.
Sophie Cunningham’s novel about Leonard Woolf and the contemporary writer attempting to tell his story is wry and earnest – and yes, devastating when it needs to be.
One of the first contemporary personal narratives about living with HIV in the 21st century, Fever urgently interrogates the social meanings of HIV, and how they’ve evolved in the era of treatment.
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Senior Lecturer in Screen, University of Westminster
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Casual Academic, Creative Writing and English Literature, Flinders University
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
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Research Officer, Gender, Law and Drugs program, La Trobe University
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John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and head of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in the School of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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