Beste Australische romans en literatuur. Wat zijn de beste romans en boeken van Australische schrijvers, schrijfsters en auteurs? In welk jaar zijn de romans en andere boeken van auteurs uit Australië verschenen? Wat is de inhoud van de Australische romans en andere literatuur?
Beste Australische romans en literatuur
Uiteraard kun je uitgebreid discussiëren over wat de beste Australische romans en andere boeken zijn? Sterker nog iedere lezer zal zijn persoonlijke voorkeur hebben. Daarom is hier een lijst opgenomen van de beste romans en andere literatuur van uit de Australië die volgens onze redactie de moeite van het lezen waard zijn.
Tot nu toe is één keer de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur uitgereikt aan een Australische schrijver. In 1973 ontving Patrick White (1912-1990) de prijs voor een episch en psychologisch verhalende kunst die een nieuw continent geïntroduceerd heeft in de literatuur.
Wat zijn de beste Australische romans en andere literatuur?
Onze redactie kiest ervoor om een alfabetisch overzicht te maken van romans en andere literaire boeken van Australische auteurs die volgens velen het lezen meer dan waard zijn. Er zullen bovendien nieuwe uitstekende en uitmuntende romans van schrijvers, schrijfsters en auteurs uit Australië worden toegevoegd. Ook is er aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman, mits deze verschenen is, uiteraard.
Marcus Clarke – For the Term of His Natural Life
roman over Tasmanië uit 1874
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…lees verder >
Miles Franklin – My Brilliant Career
Australische roman uit 1901
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Miles Franklin’s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn – closely modelled on Franklin herself – as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents’ outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a ‘brilliant career’ are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms…lees verder >
Helen Garner – Monkey Grip
Australische roman uit 1977
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
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…lees verder >
Helen Garner – This House of Grief
The Story of a Murder Trial
Australische true crime uit 2014
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
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…lees verder >
Elizabeth Harrower – The Watch Tower
Australische roman uit 1966
Nederlandse vertaling: De wachttoren
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…lees verder >
Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
historische IJsland roman uit 2013
Nederlandse vertaling: De laatste rituelen
Waardering redactie:∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?…lees verder >
Gerald Murnane – Barley Patch
Australische roman uit 2009
The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane’s unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate…lees verder >
Gerald Murnane – Inland
Australische roman uit 1988
Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator’s imagination – from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing, to the narrator’s own native district in Melbourne County, between Moonee Ponds and the Merri, where he recalls the constant displacements of his childhood…lees verder >
Gerald Murnane – The Plains
Australische roman uit 1981
Nederlandse vertaling: De vlakte
Speels en dromerig meesterwerk, waarin een man op de Australische vlakte arriveert in de hoop een film te maken over de vreemde cultuur van de bewoners. In deze roman arriveert een jongeman op de Australische vlakte in de hoop een film te kunnen maken over de vreemde, maar rijke cultuur van haar bewoners. Het resultaat is een minutieuze verkenning van het vlakke Australische binnenland en zijn landeigenaren…recensie lezen >
Patrick White – Memoirs of Many in One
Australische roman uit 1986, laatste roman
The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime, Memoirs of Many in One presents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are ‘edited’ by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and affecting, Memoirs reveals another side of White’s fiction even as it echoes many of the themes running through his work…lees verder >
Patrick White – Voss
Australische roman uit 1957
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Voss
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…lees verder >
Alexis Wright – Carpentaria
Aboriginal Australian novel from 2006
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2007
Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf Country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other…read on >
