Tim Winton is one of the most recognisable names in Australian literature and bagged his first literary award in 1981 at the age of 21. He has since won the Miles Franklin award four times, and his ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has ...

Gail Jones works. at the University of Western Sydney. She has been a recipient in the. past of Australia Council funding for residency assistance. Literary culture carries profound social value. In ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31njb6 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31njb6.3 Aboriginal literature may be a new field in academic study, yet ...

It was through listening to an ABC programme called Incognito that AA Phillips penned his seminal 1950 Meanjin essay entitled The Cultural Cringe. The show, which aired on a Sunday, broadcast two ...

A novel about the Chinese diaspora in Australia, described as shimmering with satire, has won Brisbane author Siang Lu the Miles Franklin literary award. It was rejected more than 200 times, both in ...

“I thank my lucky stars that by the time I came along it was no longer necessary to get published first in London. Imagine the knock-backs Monkey Grip would have copped there!” she told The Australian ...

Waanyi author Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, awarded to a Victorian writer who has made an "outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and ...

Once a standard-bearer of Australian literary excellence, the prize is in a terrible state. Each year, its shortlist seems more like a ritual than a revelation—a disproportionate array of ...

The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December of each year. The journal welcomes critical essays on any aspect of ...