#australianliterature — Public Fediverse posts
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2) On the other side of the pond, #LouisaMayAlcott 's #LittleWomen is a classic of #AmericanLiterature & #childrensliterature - popular all year round, but especially at #Christmas
This essay collection, ed. by Daniel Shealy revisits the novel in 8 new essays, incl a look at #AustralianLiterature -
Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners
de Kretser, who's novel Theory & Practice (which I'm currently reading), and Morton's book, Mean Streak, about the previous Australian government's controversial Robobot debt recovery scheme, are respective winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories. Others recipients, who were announced last Monday, 29 September 2025, include The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems, by David Brooks in poetry, and The Invocations, by Krystal Sutherland in young adult. See the full list of […]https://disassociated.com/michelle-de-kretser-rick-morton-2025-prime-ministers-literary-award/
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And this month we, (me & #ElderlyRelative, #Blind & with #Dementia) are prepping for a #BookClub meeting on #BoySwallowsUniverse.The #Audiobook performer is pretty much perfect. #StigWemyss is not raising even yellow flags based on what I know of teenagers in #Brisbane's junkie-criminal culture. (Not firmly based, past hearing two fellow Brisbane train passengers discussing how best to drink metho, & media coverage of violence.)
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#NowReading2025 ONE HUNDRED DAYS by Alice Pung via Black Inc Press imbibed at Mills Coffee #Senju #千住
@bookstodon #Books #Coffee #AustralianLiterature #BookStodon #BookMastodon #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon -
As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building
#books #reading #TimWinton #ShortStories #AustralianLiterature #BookCovers #Australia
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As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building
#books #reading #TimWinton #ShortStories #AustralianLiterature #BookCovers #Australia
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As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building
#books #reading #TimWinton #ShortStories #AustralianLiterature #BookCovers #Australia
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As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building
#books #reading #TimWinton #ShortStories #AustralianLiterature #BookCovers #Australia
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As good a collection as I've read in an age. And the stories are all connected, so it has the feel of a loose novel. Just tremendous writing and (small-town) world-building
#books #reading #TimWinton #ShortStories #AustralianLiterature #BookCovers #Australia
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"River of Snake" is the 1996 debut novel of #AustralianWriter Chris McLeod, featuring #angels, #snakes and crows and other religious symbolism
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=229056415
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"Snake" by #AustralianWriter and poet Kate Jennings is a short & sharp novel about 20 years of marital displeasure, a mis-matched and doomed relationship in 1950s and 60s #Australia
#AustralianLiterature #AustralianStudies #YearOfTheSnake
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=23088704X
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2 new books from #Australia have arrived!
"Still Alive" is Safdar Ahmed's multi-award winning #graphicnovel / graphic #non-fiction about Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, combining #journalism, #history & #autobiography -
Find the original 1967 (1st edition) of #PicnicAtHangingRock here: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=497193329
& the 2018 adaptation as a miniseries with #NatalieDormer here (on DVD): https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1032780282
#AdaptationStudies #GothicLiterature #PicnicDay #AustralianLiterature #FilmStudies
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Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
@Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
@nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂#JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
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Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
@Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
@nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂#JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
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Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
@Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
@nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂#JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
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Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
@Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
@nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂#JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
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Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
@Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
@nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂#JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
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'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak
https://booksperience.org/2023/11/01/ithe-book-thief-i-by-markus-zusak/
#AustralianLiterature, #BookStealing, #Books, #Death, #Emotional, #Fiction, #Freedom, #Germany, #HistoricalFiction, #Holocaust, #Library, #Literature, #Love, #MarkusZusak, #NaziGermany, #Novel, #Politics, #PowerOfWords, #TheBookThief, #War, #WorldWarII, #YoungAdult
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Happy International #PicnicDay!
The weather here is a bit undecided between rain and #sunshine, but if you don't dare to have a real #picnic al fresco today, how about revisiting #JoanLindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock"?
A classic of #Gothic & #AustralianLiterature!
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Another day, another literary award shortlist announcement… this time it's the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) shortlists. 71 books, across 14 categories, are in contention this year.
#abia23 #AustralianLiterature #LiteraryAwards
https://disassociated.com/2023-australian-book-industry-awards-abias-shortlists/
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Just resubscribed to my two favourite #literaryMagazines - Meanjin and Overland - hard to do much better when it comes to #AustralianLiterature
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This month is the 100th anniversary of the publication of #KatherineMansfield's #Modernist #ShortStory collection "Something Childish But Very Natural"
Read the stories & fathom their hidden depths in Gerri Kimber's study#ModernistLiterature #AustralianLiterature #LiteraryStudies
Mansfield's stories: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=027417700
Kimber's analysis: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=815828896
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Happy International #PicnicDay!
The weather here is a bit undecided between rain and #sunshine, but if you don't dare to have a real #picnic al fresco today, how about revisiting #JoanLindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock"?
A classic of #Gothic & #AustralianLiterature!
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Happy Library Shelfie Day!
We love our colourful, diverse and interesting bookshelves @subugoe!
Here are just 2 #shelfies from the Reading Room:
Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter & J.M. Coetzee in "C" in #EnglishFiction
& part of our #AustralianLiterature shelf -
Happy Library Shelfie Day!
We love our colourful, diverse and interesting bookshelves @subugoe!
Here are just 2 #shelfies from the Reading Room:
Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter & J.M. Coetzee in "C" in #EnglishFiction
& part of our #AustralianLiterature shelf -
Happy Library Shelfie Day!
We love our colourful, diverse and interesting bookshelves @subugoe!
Here are just 2 #shelfies from the Reading Room:
Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter & J.M. Coetzee in "C" in #EnglishFiction
& part of our #AustralianLiterature shelf -
Happy Library Shelfie Day!
We love our colourful, diverse and interesting bookshelves @subugoe!
Here are just 2 #shelfies from the Reading Room:
Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter & J.M. Coetzee in "C" in #EnglishFiction
& part of our #AustralianLiterature shelf -
Fresh books have arrived at our library @subugoe! These books by #AustralianAuthors are all by publisher transit lounge.
🇦🇺To find #AustralianLiterature in our catalogue, go to https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de
& enter
"lkl ibb 655" (🇦🇺 fiction),
661 (poetry) or 663 (drama) 🦘 -
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott has been longlisted in 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize. Another reason to add the Tasmania based Australian author's 2022 novel to your TBR list.
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Limberlost by Robbie Arnott has been longlisted in 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize. Another reason to add the Tasmania based Australian author's 2022 novel to your TBR list.
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Limberlost by Robbie Arnott has been longlisted in 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize. Another reason to add the Tasmania based Australian author's 2022 novel to your TBR list.