Hidden Author

Tim Flannery

Reading Australia • 15 April 2015

Tim Flannery is an internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist. He has written over a dozen books, including Here On Earth; the award winning bestsellers The Future Eaters, The Eternal Frontier and The Weather Makers, and accounts of his travels in Papua New Guinea and Australia, Throwim Way Leg, Country and Among the Islands. In 2007 he was named Australian of the Year and ... (read more)

Raimond Gaita

Reading Australia • 31 March 2015

Raimond Gaita Raimond Gaita was born in Germany in 1946. He is Emeritus Professor of moral philosophy at Kings College London and a Professorial fellow at the Melbourne Law School and the faculty of Arts of the University of Melbourne. His books have been published in many translations. They include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception (1991), Romulus, My Father (1998), A Common Humanity, The ... (read more)

News from the Editor's Desk - April 2015

April 2015, no. 370 • 26 March 2015

Morag Fraser At our AGM in March, Morag Fraser AM left the board after nine years as Chair and twelve years on the board. At a memorable function afterwards, board and staff members paid tribute to our esteemed colleague. Among the tributes published in a small testimonial was this one from Peter Rose: ‘It has been a joy working with you closely. No Editor – no editor intent on effecting chan ... (read more)

Elizabeth Jolley

Reading Australia • 24 March 2015

Elizabeth Jolley (photograph by Tanya Young)Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923–13 February 2007) was an English-born writer who moved to Western Australia in 1959 with her husband Leonard Jolley and their three children. She was fifty-three when her first book, Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories (1976), was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy ... (read more)

Helen Garner

Reading Australia • 24 March 2015

Helen Garner (1942–) is an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. Garner’s first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977 and was adapted for film in 1981. Since then she has written many works of fiction, including The Children’s Bach (1984), Cosmo Cosmolino (1992), and The Spare Room (2008), as well as non-fiction, including The First Stone (1995), Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004), ... (read more)

Michael Farrell is Poet of the Month

March 2015, no. 369 • 26 February 2015

Which poets have most influenced you? Gertrude Stein, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Wallace Stevens, e.e. cummings, Marianne Moore, John Cage. Brecht, too, but as theorist rather than poet. I read these poets when I was beginning, as well as Surrealist and Language poets. No one poet of these latter groupings stands out. These days I am more influenced by a poet’s approaches and attitudes than ... (read more)

Thea Astley

Reading Australia • 16 February 2015

Thea Astley (25 August 1925–17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958. She was a prolific and multi-award-winning writer who published fifteen novels and two short story collections and won the Miles Franklin award four times (for The Well Dressed Explorer in 1962, for The Slow Natives in 1965, for The Acolyte in ... (read more)

Jessica Anderson

Reading Australia • 11 February 2015

Jessica Anderson (25 September 1916 – 9 July 2010) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Anderson’s first novel, An Ordinary Lunacy was published in 1963. Since then she has received many awards for her work including winning the prestigious Miles Franklin award, twice (for Tirra Lirra By the River in 1978 and for The Impersonators in 1980). Jessica Anderson 1986 (photograph ... (read more)

2019 ABR Patrons' Fellowship – worth $10,000

Competitions and programs • 04 February 2015

Applications for the 2019 ABR Patrons’ Fellowship have now closed. An announcement will be made in early 2019.   My year as an ABR fellow has been the most rewarding of my writing life. This year I've not only been encouraged, but supported, to press my ear against our culture's chest and listen to its heartbeat. I'm indebted to the ABR team, and its warm and generous community of readers ... (read more)

Index for 2014: Nos 358–367

Indexes • 07 January 2015

Reviews Index 2014 ABDEL-FATTAH, Randa, Jodie: This is the Book of You, Omnibus Books, 359/59, Ruth Starke ACTON, SARA, Poppy Cat, Scholastic, 363/362, Stephanie Owen Reeder ADELAIDE, Debra, Letter to George Clooney, Picador, 359/36, Amy Baillieu ADELMAN, Jeremy, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, Princeton University Press, 364/29, Adrian Walsh ADELMAN, Jeremy (ed.), The ... (read more)