In her latest novel, Merlinda Bobis envisions the past not as a grand narrative, but an organic process – entangled, living and mutable.
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A psychiatrist and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon wrote fiercely against racism and colonialism. His ideas continue to inform political movements yet his misogyny and embrace of violence are problematic.
Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
A commanding presence on the global literary stage, Ama Ata Aidoo was a powerful feminist voice with a prolific output.
Poet, soldier and critic of postcolonial elites, Hadraawi was the greatest poet of his generation.
In her first novel, Michelle Cahill gives a marginalised character from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the opportunity to speak for herself.
Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
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Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of English and Liberal Studies, Winston-Salem State University
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Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UNSW
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Fellow, King's College London
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Professor of African Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland