The Burning Library: Our Great Novelists Lost and Found
Oct 2012 · Sold by Penguin Group Australia
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A perfect introduction to Australian literature, The Burning Library explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.
Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.
The Burning Library is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.
Writers discussed in this collection:
M. Barnard Eldershaw
Xavier Herbert
Christina Stead
Dal Stivens
Patrick White
Jessica Anderson
Sumner Locke Elliott
Amy Witting
Olga Masters
David Ireland
Elizabeth Harrower
Thomas Keneally
Randolph Stow
Gerald Murnane
Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian
newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and
reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the
UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for
criticism, Australia's only major national prize awarded for critical
writing.
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Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.
The Burning Library is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.
Writers discussed in this collection:
M. Barnard Eldershaw
Xavier Herbert
Christina Stead
Dal Stivens
Patrick White
Jessica Anderson
Sumner Locke Elliott
Amy Witting
Olga Masters
David Ireland
Elizabeth Harrower
Thomas Keneally
Randolph Stow
Gerald Murnane
Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian
newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and
reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the
UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for
criticism, Australia's only major national prize awarded for critical
writing.
textpublishing.com.au
A perfect introduction to Australian literature, The Burning Library explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.
Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we ...
About the author
Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade.divdivIn 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia’s only major national prize awarded for critical writing. He lives in the Blue Mountains with his family.
Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade.divdivIn 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia’s only ma...
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