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The inaugural Australian Writers Week in China ─ conceived by the Australian Ambassador, Dr Geoff Raby ─ was presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing in March 2008.
The six featured Australian authors included Lily Brett, Anna Funder, Gail Jones, Christopher Koch, Christopher Kremmer and Ouyang Yu. All had previously written books about China and other parts of Asia or Europe. The authors met with Chinese readers in a series of book talks, workshops, panel discussions and forums at the Australian Embassy, the Bookworm English library, and schools and community venues in Beijing and Chengdu. -
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Lily Brett
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Lily Brett was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany. Her Jewish parents were survivors of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. Her family moved to Melbourne in 1948, and in 1961 Brett began her literary career writing for the Australian rock magazine Go-Set.
The Auschwitz Poems (1986) received great critical acclaim for its expression of the feelings and experiences of second-generation Holocaust survivors, a theme which is prevalent throughout her writing. Her terse, short poems elliptically recreate the experience of her parents' generation in a style whose minimalism accentuates the horrors of what is being depicted. Her stories are characterised by their adept movements between horror, excesses and the exaggerated behaviour of what is reductively known as Jewish humour.
Much of Brett's writing is autobiographical or semi-autobiographical. Brett also writes intimately about her experiences with sex, body image and food. In 1991 Brett moved to New York with her second husband, the Australian painter David Rankin. Her essay collections In Full View (1997), New York (2001) and Between Mexico and Poland (2002) present her experiences as an expatriate.
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Anna Funder
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Anna Funder went to school in Melbourne and in Paris, and studied at the University of Melbourne and the Free University of Berlin. She holds a Doctor in Creative Arts (DCA) from University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Fluent in both German and French, Funder has written in her book Stasiland of her experiences in Berlin, both before and after the Wall came down.
She was Writer-in-Residence at the Australian Centre in the University of Potsdam in 1997 and has won the Felix Meyer Creative Writing award, the Australian German Association Fellowship, and an Arts Victoria literature grant.
She has worked as a documentary film producer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and as a translator for Deutsche Welle Television Berlin.
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5445857889574383335.jpg7459080215645002467.jpgThe Girl with the Dogs Anna Funder , 2015 single work novella
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Gail Jones
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Gail Jones ( 盖尔·琼斯 )was educated at the University of Western Australia (UWA), later joining the staff as an Associate Professor in the English Department there. In 2001, she won The Australian University Teaching Award in the Humanities and the Arts category. After working at UWA, Jones took up a position as professor within the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. Her academic interests include gender and narrative theory, literary theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, creative writing, contemporary and Australian literature, and cinema studies.
Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and have been highly praised for their linguistic richness and intellectual complexity, their subtle humour and intricate craftwork.
Jones has published seven novels to date (2018). Her structually complex debut novel Black Mirror was described by the judges of the Nita Kibble Literary Award as 'a witty interrogation of the problems faced by the biographer'. She followed this work with Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, Five Bells, A Guide to Berlin, and the forthcoming The Death of Noah Glass. Between them, her novels have won the Colin Roderick Award, the Nita Kibble Award (twice), the Western Australian Premier's Book Award (twice), the South Australian Premier's Award, the Barbara Ramsden Award, and the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, and have been shortlisted and longlisted for national and international prizes including the Miles Franklin Award and the Booker Prize. She won the Philip Hodgins Award (for a consistently outstanding Australian writer) in 2011.
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296025724322986097.jpg7315023847400629782.jpgThe Death of Noah Glass Gail Jones , 2018 single work novel
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5649364349087338124.jpg7524203094379951063.jpgA Guide to Berlin Gail Jones , 2015 single work novel
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6869680283301105029.jpg6976665395164326246.jpg7916863601712476294.jpg1329904903448347447.jpgFive Bells Gail Jones , 2011 single work novel
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Nicholas Jose
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Nicholas Jose ( 尼古拉斯·周思 ) was born in London, and grew up in Australia. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, and the Australian National University. Winning a Rhodes Scholarship in 1974, he completed a PhD on seventeenth century English literature at Oxford University. He taught for several years at the Australian National University before spending eighteen months teaching and writing in China. In 1987 he was appointed Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, an appointment he held until 1990.
Jose's first book of fiction is the short story collection The Possession of Amber (1980). During the 1980s he published another collection and several novels, including the widely-admired Avenue of Eternal Peace (1989), the first of Jose's novels to exhibit his interest in Chinese language and culture. Since 1990, Jose has written more novels based on his experience and knowledge of China, and a novel, The Custodians(1996), that explores the concept of custodianship in Australia. He has also written reviews, short stories, essays, poetry and travel articles, many of which deal with aspects of Chinese art and culture. His novel The Red Thread (2000) interweaves his translation of the Chinese story Six Chapters of a Floating Life with a contemporary narrative by using a red ink for the former story. Jose's writing has been supported by fellowships from the Australia-China Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australia Council.
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Christopher Koch
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Christopher Koch, descended from German, English and Irish immigrants who arrived in Australia in the 1830s and 1840s, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1932. He was educated at Clemes College, St Virgil's College, Hobart High School and the University of Tasmania.
Koch's first published works were poems that appeared in the Bulletin and Southerly during the 1950s and were described by the editors of The Penguin Book of Australian Verse (1958) as 'powerfully evocative of the Tasmanian landscape.' However, it was to the novel that Koch turned, and The Boys in the Island, begun while he was still an undergraduate, was published in 1958. Tasmania, its landscape and history, and the concept of a Tasmanian consciousness are important elements in his early work as well as in The Doubleman (1985) and in his book of essays, Crossing the Gap (1987). Koch's recurring preoccupations are the themes of spirituality and cultural identity.
In 1995, Christopher Koch was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for his contribution to literature. Among his other awards are a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Tasmania, an Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (Estonia), and the Writers' Emeritus Award from the Australia Council. His works have won and been shortlisted for numerous Australian and international awards, including multiple Miles Franklin Awards.
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4646103600849614405.jpg2098967489643581372.jpg2141771506703754653.jpg156269702516024553.jpgThe Memory Room Christopher Koch , 2007 single work novel
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4571332817971461560.jpg3751606680830715698.jpg3870129880919749864.jpgOut of Ireland Christopher Koch , 1999 single work novel
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Christopher Kremmer
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Christopher Kremmer grew up in the multicultural environment of Sydney's inner western suburbs. He left home at the age of seventeen to study in Canberra, completing an Arts degree before taking up work as a journalist in various parts of Australia. He stayed for a while in London, where he wrote comedy sketches for the Canal Cafe Theatre's Newsrevue cabaret, then spent time in Asia, living for over a decade in New Delhi and Hanoi, then working in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Iraq. During this time he wrote Stalking the Elephant Kings, an award-winning account of the communist revolution in Indo-China, and The Carpet Wars.
Returning to Australia he settled in Berrima, NSW. In 2003 he published Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos. He lectures on Asian topics and writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.
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Yu Ouyang
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Yu Ouyang ( 欧阳昱 ) graduated from Wuhan Institute of Hydro-Electric Engineering (now Wuhan University) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American Literature, then completed a Master of Arts degree in Australian and English literature at East China Normal University in Shanghai. After coming to Australia, Ouyang undertook his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at La Trobe University on the representation of the Chinese in Australian fiction. Since then his literary work has appeared regularly in most major Australian and many overseas literary journals. In addition to his poetry, criticism and English translations of Chinese literature, he has translated many major Australian works into Chinese, including The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes and The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer.
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