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Antigone Kefala – Sydney Journals

Antigone Kefala Sydney Journals review and information of the content of the diary of the Romania-born Australian author and poet. Transit Books will republish the Antigone Kefala book, on March 26, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Antigone Kefala Sydney Journals reviews

  • “Sydney Journals (2008) and Late Journals (2022) showcase Kefala’s distinctive, cosmopolitan vision. They are, among other things, wonderful Sydney documents, capturing the city’s changing moods and forms through charged, astute, visually rich observation…While the loss of community attendant on migration is felt in Kefala’s Late Journals, this work highlights a different, sustaining kinship: the artists and intellectuals Kefala engages with, their presence and their work serving to enrich her days. There is wonderful generosity in Kefala’s acknowledgment of the creative work that matters to her, and a sense of celebration in her intransigent faith in the value and power of art.” (Judges of the Patrick White Literary Award)
  • “In poetry as in prose, Antigone Kefala has made the fragment her form. It’s a form that embodies both salvage and destruction, and it’s wonderfully deployed in Late Journals to snatch moments from time while testifying to discontinuity and loss. I couldn’t stop reading this book. It bears moving witness to a distinctive, cosmopolitan vision and an unwavering faith in the power and integrity of art.” (Michelle de Kretser)
  • “The best Australian writer you’ve never heard of.” (The Berliner)

Antigone Kefala Sydney Journals

Sydney Journals

  • Author: Antigone Kefala (Australia)
  • Book type: diary from 2009
  • Publisher: Transit Books
  • Released: March 26, 2026
  • Length: 216 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 18.95
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Sydney Journals by Antigone Kefala

A thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.

Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced to flee following the occupation by the Soviet Union, escaping first to refugee camps in Greece before moving to New Zealand and then finally Australia in 1959, where she lived until her death.

As she grew into her career as a writer, she situated herself within Sydney’s artistic and intellectual milieu, publishing poetry and fiction. She also kept a diary for over thirty years, portraying a world sustained by conversation and friendship, and by reflection, on books and paintings, plays and films, and literary fortune.

For Kefala, Sydney Journals was a literary project, culled from decades of recordkeeping and shaped by austere and frank observations that beam with poignancy and humor. What is left is a rare document of the domestic and public life of the period, of an aging writer and her companions, and the dramatic beauty of the city and its landscapes.

Intimate in its recollections, social in nature, the Journals establishes Antigone Kefala as one of literature’s great diarists.

Antigone Kefala was born May 28, 1931 into a family of musicians in Brăila, Romania, and aspired to be an actor. Following the occupation by the Soviet Union, her family fled Romania, first escaping to Greece and living in refugee camps there. She moved to New Zealand before arriving in Sydney in 1959, where she lived until her death. A poet, novelist, and diarist, she has been described as “one of the most significant of the Australian writers who have come from elsewhere” and a “cultural visionary,” mapping the experiences of exile, displacement, and otherness. She died December 3, 2022 in Sydney Australia the age of 91.

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Marcus Clarke – For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1874 over de gevangeis op Tasmanië. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman For the Term of His Natural Life van de uit de Australië afkomstige schrijver Marcus Clarke die in Engeland was geboren. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life recensie, review en informatie

  • “Terrible and tragic, but seething with intense human life…A masterpiece.” (Canberra Times)

Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life

  • Auteur: Marcus Clarke (Australië)
  • Soort boek: roman over Tasmanië uit 1874
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Text Publishing
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Marcus Clarke over Tasmanië

A masterpiece in style and scope, Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life is an ambitious tale of tragedy, redemption, and the ugliness and resilience of man.

Wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, a young aristocrat is sent to pay his dues in Van Diemen’s Land. As a criminal in this new colony, Rufus Dawes is forced to endure tremendous suffering and inhumanity, from the baseless cruelty of those in power to the harsh brutalities of an untamed country. Yet, with enduring human spirit and unrelenting determination, Dawes remains ever desperate to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.

First published in 1874, Marcus Clarke’s vivid and brutal depictions of convict life have come to define our colonial history. Still beloved by readers today, For the Term of His Natural Life remains the most important Australian book of the nineteenth century, and a vital part of our cultural and literary identity.

Marcus Clarke was born in on 24 April 1846 in Kensington, London. At age seventeen Clarke left England for Australia, where his uncle was a county court judge. Despite an early career in banking, Clarke had begun to write professionally by 1867, penning stories for the Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life novel from 1874 first editionAustralian Magazine and working as a theatre critic for the Melbourne Argus. Commissioned by the Australian Journal to write a serial about convict life, Clarke produced his masterwork, His Natural Life. Republished as a novel in 1874 under the new title For the Term of His Natural Life, Clarke’s epic tale of crime and punishment was later distributed in Britain, America, Germany and many other countries. Marcus Clarke died in Melbourne on 2 August 1881, aged thirty-five.

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Josephine Rowe – Little World

Josephine Rowe Little World review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Australische schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Transit Books de nieuwe roman van Josephine Rowe, de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Josephine Rowe Little World review en recensie

  • “Radiant…In the sumptuous novel Little World, neither human cruelties nor fiery spirits can be erased.” (Foreward Reviews)
  • “Rowe’s writing is rich in atmosphere and reads as if channeled directly from the minds of others…A human yet otherworldly tale.” (Booklist)
  • “Rowe’s story about various lives touched by a child saint’s corpse over space and time is lyrical, varied, and only slightly less strange than it sounds.” (The Millions)

Josephine Rowe Little World

Little World

  • Auteur: Josephine Rowe (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Transit Books
  • Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 22,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Josephine Rowe

A dazzling novel about the mysterious body of a child saint and the lives it touches across time.

He has no notion of how to care for a saint. Even a small one. Does not even believe … Still. Catholic or not. You don’t turn away a saint.

Little World opens with the body of a child saint stranded in the Australian desert. Her name is unknown, as is the story of her life and the status of her canonization. She arrives in a box made of canoe timber, and Orrin Bird is dressed in his best clothes to receive her.

As the novel sweeps across time and place, from the 1950s to the present day, we encounter the lives the saint touches: from the retired engineer who unwittingly becomes her custodian, to a woman driving across the Nullarbor Plain in the mid-1970s with a pair of young lovers, and ending in contemporary Victoria.

A haunting reflection on violence and the interdependency of all things, Little World is a dazzling feat by one of Australia’s finest writers.

Josephine Rowe is born in Australia. Her first novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal was published in 2016. She als wrote two collections with stories: Tarcutta Wake (2012), her debut and Here Until August (2019)

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Helen Garner – Monkey Grip

Helen Garner Monkey Grip review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1977 van de Australische schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Monkey Grip van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster Helen Garner. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Helen Garner Monkey Grip review en recensie

  • “It’s the crystalline austerity of Garner’s sentences that most enthral me now in Monkey Grip. The lives may be chaotic; the language is anything but. Its cadences are beautiful, its images ever striking, the prose gleaming with a tender, almost chivalrous formality … I love Garner’s sense of joy; her gutsy, worried humility; her hilarious sense of humour.” (Charlotte Wood, Guardian)
  • “Whichever form she’s inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them.” (Max Lui, Financial Times)
  • “Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking.” (Lauren Groff)

Helen Garner Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip

  • Auteur: Helen Garner (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman uit 1977
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: McPhee Gribble
  • Uitgever: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Verschijnt: 14 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1977 van de Australische schrijfster Helen Garner

In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman.

She is happy moving between the city’s communal households, with her little daughter. Happy with days spent at the public pool, and nights spent dancing and drinking and talking and smoking and loving freely.

But then Nora meets Javo. Javo, with his crooked, wrecked, wild face and his violently blue eyes. And soon she is trapped in the monkey grip of his drug addiction and her own obsessive love for him.

On its first publication in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod in its frank portrayal of the lives of a generation. Now a modern classic, it shows Helen Garner’s dazzling and radical literary voice.

Helen Garner is born 7 November 1942 in Geelong, Victoria,
Australia. She writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-Monkey Grip 1977 Novel by Helen Garner the Australian Writer First Editionfiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2019. And in 2023 she was awarded the ASA Medal for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature. Her works include five novels Monkey Grip, Moving Out, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room (De logeerkamer). She also wrote non fiction books like This House of Grief, The Season and three volumes of her diaries. Garner lives in Melbourne.

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Helen Garner – This House of Grief

Helen Garner This House of Grief review, recensie en informatie true crime-boek uit 2014 van de Australische schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de het boek This House of Grief, The Story of a Murder Trail. Het boek dat inmiddels is uitgegroeid tot een true crime klassieker, is geschreven door Helen Garner, de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Helen Garner This House of Grief recensie en review

  • “This House of Grief makes its complexity out of an honest vulnerability…Garner’s book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy marriage, limited social opportunity, bitter divorce, and spousal grievance. Again, as in The First Stone, what consumes her are the difficult questions that seem to lie beyond the reach of formal narration: the deepest assumptions of class and gender and power; the problem of how well we ever understand someone else’s motives…Attracted and repelled, Garner circles around the unspeakable abysmal horror. Can any story “explain” why a man might murder his children? She doesn’t pretend to possess the explosive answer, and frequently confesses stupefaction, but her book walks us along an engrossing and plausible narrative fuse…Her narrative is lit by lightning.” (James Wood, New Yorker)
  • “Helen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights. This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood.” (Kate Atkinson)
  • “In This House of Grief, Helen Garner describes with wonderful subtlety and honesty the trail of a man accused of drowning his three sons; she is fascinated by what we’re capable of and how fiercely we hide it from ourselves.” (Helen Simpson, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “As involving, heart-rending and unsettling a read as you could possibly find, a true-life account of three deaths and a trial that leaves you with a profound sense of unease as its drama unfolds, and disturbing questions about how we judge guilt and innocence…Tailor-made for those who have gorged recently on the popular true-crime podcast Serial.” (The Times)

Helen Garner This House of Grief

This House of Grief

The Story of a Murder Trial

  • Auteur: Helen Garner (Australië)
  • Soort boek: true crime boek uit 2014
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste editie: Text Publishing
  • Uitgever: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Verschijnt: 14 maart 2024
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het true crime boek van de Australische schrijfster Helen Garner

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner’s obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict.

In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience – all gathered to witness to the truth – players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.

This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and unputdownable book by one of Australia’s most admired writers.

Helen Garner is born 7 November 1942 in Geelong, Victoria,
Australia. She writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-Helen Garner This House of Grief 2014 True Crime First Editionfiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2019. And in 2023 she was awarded the ASA Medal for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature. Her works include five novels Monkey Grip, Moving Out, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room (De logeerkamer). She also wrote non fiction books like This House of Grief, The Season and three volumes of her diaries. Garner lives in Melbourne.

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Jacques Bussillet – Jack Findlay

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie over de motorcoureur uit Australië. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Veloce het Engelstalige boek over motorcoureur Jack Finlay, held van het legendarische Continental Circus. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling vanhet boek verkrijgbaar.

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Jack Finlay, Hero of the Continental Circus, het boek geschreven door Jacques Bussilet, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay

Jack Findlay

Hero of the Continental Circus

  • Auteur: Jacques Bussilet (Frankrijk)
  • Soort boek: motorsport boek, portret
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Veloce
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 25,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Australische motorcoureur Jack Findlay

Jack Findlay: The fearless privateer who became the heart and soul of the legendary Continental Circus.

Among the heroic riders in the Continental Circus was an Australian named Jack Findlay, who became a role model for these modern gladiators mounted on two wheels. His talent and courage meant he was often referred to as the “best privateer in the world”.

For nearly 30 years, a group of daring motorcycle riders toured Europe, competing on perilous circuits. Driving small vans loaded with their racing motorcycles, they formed a nomadic spectacle that came to be known as the Continental Circus. While some riders gained fame through races that contributed to world championships, many remained unsung heroes. The 1969 movie Continental Circus celebrated these brave racers—individuals who risked their lives for the sheer love and passion of the sport.

Among these fearless riders was Australian Jack Findlay, a legendary figure who became a role model for the ‘modern gladiators’ of motorcycle racing. Known as the ‘best privateer in the world’, Findlay’s immense talent and unshakable determination set him apart as he competed against factory-backed superstars with far greater resources. He embodied the very spirit of the Continental Circus and all it stood for.

This book delves into Jack Findlay’s extraordinary journey, honouring a solitary yet immensely gifted and resilient rider who defined an era of motorcycle racing.

Jacques Bussillet is a French journalist and writer who saw his first motorcycle race when he was nine-years-old, and followed the Continental Circus as mechanic and helper. After studying journalism at university, he reported about Grand Prix motorcycle racing during the 1970s and ’80s for the leading weekly Moto Journal and the daily sport newspaper l’Equipe. He met and knew all the players of motorcycle racing and has kept in contact with this world. He has published around 20 books about motorcycle sport and champions.

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Australische geschiedenis boeken

Australische geschiedenis boeken nieuwe boeken over de geschiedenis van Australië recensie, review en informatie. Welke nieuwe boeken over de geschiedenis van Australië verschijnen er? Waarover gaan de inhoud van de boeken? Wat zijn de beste boeken over de Australische geschiedenis?

Australische geschiedenis boeken

De geschiedenis van het Australië is voor velen boeiend en interessant. Niet vreemd dus dat er regelmatig boeiende boeken over de Australische geschiedenis verschijnen.

Wat zijn goede nieuwe Australische geschiedenis boeken?

Hieronder is een overzicht samengesteld van nieuwe geschiedenisboeken over Australië. De indeling is op de datum van publicatie. Zowel Nederlandstalige als Engelse boeken zijn opgenomen.

Stephen D. Hopper Eucalyptus reviewEucalyptus

The rich natural history, biology and cultural significance of eucalypts

  • Auteur: Stephen D. Hopper (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 18,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact mallees, these trees inspire awe and curiosity. Their hardwood has driven industries, sparked protests and even toppled governments. Their aromatic leaves hold healing properties yet fuel devastating wildfires…lees verder >

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Stephen D. Hopper – Eucalyptus

Stephen D. Hopper Eucalyptus review, recensie en informatie boek over de natuurlijke historie, biologie en culturele betekenis van de boom uit Australië. Op 1 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books het boek over de Eucalyptus. Het boek is geschreven door de Australische Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Western Australia. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Stephen D. Hopper Eucalyptus review en recensie

  • “Having experienced Eucalyptus trees in their native Australian haunts, I fell in love with them and was intrigued by their diversity and beauty. This book on Eucalyptus provides the reader with a unique experience: wonderful descriptions of these amazing trees and bountiful information on their uses and cultural significance that are so important in the lives of Australian Aborigines. I enjoyed Stephen D. Hopper’s book immensely and highly recommend it to anyone interested in Australia and plants.” (Mark W. Chase, Honorary Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

Stephen D. Hopper Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus

The rich natural history, biology and cultural significance of eucalypts

  • Auteur: Stephen D. Hopper (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 18,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Eucalyptus en Australië

Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact mallees, these trees inspire awe and curiosity. Their hardwood has driven industries, sparked protests and even toppled governments. Their aromatic leaves hold healing properties yet fuel devastating wildfires.

This book blends Aboriginal knowledge and Western science to uncover the rich natural history, biology and conservation of eucalypts. It explores their evolution, cultural significance and surprising roles in modern life, offering insights into sustainable ways to coexist with these remarkable trees. Featuring stunning photographs from fifty years of fieldwork, this is the first comprehensive review of Aboriginal eucalypt wisdom, paired with cutting-edge scientific discoveries.

Stephen D. Hopper is Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Western Australia, and was Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, between 2006 and 2012. His books include Life on the Rocks: The Art of Survival (with Philippa Nikulinsky, 2008).

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Australië, 1966, Australische roman, Australische schrijfster

Elizabeth Harrower – The Watch Tower

Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower review, recensie en informatie Australische roman uit 1966. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Watch Tower van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster Elizabeth Harrower. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De wachttoren is verschenen als L.L. Veen Klassiek uitgave.

Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower review en recensie

  • “This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society. It reminded me of Zola in its unflinching depiction of two sisters entangled with a moody, violent man, one of them being gradually crushed into subservience, the other struggling desperately to save her own soul. It is a brilliant achievement.” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)
  • “I read this book twice. Once for sheer pleasure – if pleasure can be the correct term for an experience that is so distressing – and once for the purposes of this review…It left me with the strongest sense I have had for a very long time of the infinite preciousness of consciousness, at whatever cost, and of our terrifying human vulnerability.” (Salley Vickers, Sydney Morning Herald)

Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower

The Watch Tower

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Harrower (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman uit 1966
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Text Publishing
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1966 van de Australische schrijfster Elizabeth Harrower

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited.

After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control.

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney on 8 February 1928 in Newcastle, New South Wales.  She moved to London in 1951. She travelled extensively and began to write fiction. Her first novel Down in the City was published in 1957, and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney where she Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower Australian novel from 1966 first editionbegan working for the ABC and as a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. The Watch Tower appeared in 1966. No further novels were published until May 2014 when Harrower’s ‘lost’ novel, In Certain Circles, was released. Her work is austere, intelligent, ruthless in its perceptions about men and women. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia. Elizabeth Harrower died in Sydney on 7 July 2020 at the age of ninety-two.

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Patrick White – Voss

Patrick White Voss recensie, review en informatie roman uit 1957 van de Australische schrijver en winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur 1973. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Voss van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijver Patrick White. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft ook als titel Voss en is op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Patrick White Voss recensie en review

  • “Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he pursues them with a single-minded energy and vision.” (Guardian)
  • “The outstanding figure in Australian fiction.” (The New York Times)
  • “One of the greatest magicians of fiction (…) White’s scope is vast and his invention endless.” (Observer)

Patrick White Voss

Voss

  • Auteur: Patrick White (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman uit 1957
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1957 van de Australische schrijver Patrick White

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality.

Patrick White was born 28 May 1912 in Knightsbridge, London in England. He was taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Patrick White Voss 1957 novel first editionCheltenham college and King’s College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war. He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in Sydney, Australia on 30 September 1990 at the age of 78.

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