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Arnold Zable Arnold Zable i(A14409 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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1 The House of Many Colours Arnold Zable , 2024 single work prose
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 29 January vol. 34 no. 2 2024;
1 River Rising Arnold Zable , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Into Your Arms : Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined 2023; (p. 261-272)
1 He Walks among Them : Remembering Father Bob Arnold Zable , 2023 single work obituary (for Bob Maguire )
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 17 April vol. 33 no. 7 2023; 'I am one of the thousands in this city who have tales to recount about Father Bob McGuire. I got to know him in 2015 when working on The Fighter, a book exploring the life of ex-boxer and youth worker, Henry Nissen. Henry worked with Father Bob for many years tending to the needs of street kids, the homeless, the impoverished and disempowered.' (Introduction)
1 Uncle Jack Charles : A Tribute Arnold Zable , 2022 single work obituary (for Jack Charles )
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 11 September vol. 32 no. 18 2022; 'I am deeply saddened at the passing of inspirational Uncle Jack Charles. I loved him. I was one of the many who loved him. He was always up for a hug and a yarn when we saw each other around the traps. He always made you feel good. Always had that twinkle in his eyes. He was a gentle, loving, big-hearted man, despite it all. Because of it all. He triumphed over institutional racism, the legacy of colonialism, and the immense suffering, fragmentation, and trauma it left in its wake — to become a brilliant storyteller, actor, artist, potter, musician and tireless worker for Aboriginal justice and rights.' (Introduction)
1 Tongue of the Hidden i "She reads Tongue of the Hidden,", Arnold Zable , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Retracing the Tracks Arnold Zable , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 22 May vol. 32 no. 10 2022; 'Election day. Mid-afternoon. 21 May 2022. I make my way to Canning Street, Carlton North. Stop by my childhood home, a single-fronted terrace, the neighbourhood of my youth. In the 1950s election day was a happy day in that rented house, conveniently close to the factories of Brunswick, and the Victoria Market where my father was a stallholder. My parents loved the three-block walk to the polling booths, located in Lee Street, our local primary school. They were elated at having the right to vote. From where they came, this right had been brutally taken from them.' (Introduction)
1 Arnold Zable Arnold Zable , 2021 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Dear Mum 2021;
1 The Man Who Loved The Persimmon Tree Arnold Zable , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021; Meanjin Online 2021;
1 Refugium Arnold Zable , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 69 2020; (p. 277-285)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Watermill Arnold Zable , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2020 17947852 2020 selected work short story

'RANGING from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable’s quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever-recurring journeys in search of belonging.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Arnold Zable Arnold Zable , 2019 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Dear Dad 2019;
1 Serge Liberman. A Story Arnold Zable , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 26 2019; (p. 8-11) 'A portrait of Serge Liberman, as I knew him, drawing parallels between his work as a physician and writer. As a storyteller Serge drew on many sources. My focus here is on his roots, as an emigrant, and as a doctor who practiced in immigrant neighbourhoods, Carlton and Brunswick. He wrote in the tradition of earlier Melbourne based immigrant Yiddish writers, Pinchas Goldhar and Bergner, exploring similar themes of displacement, exile and longing. He drew also on older traditions of Yiddish literature, writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer. But Serge was more forgiving of human foibles, less judgemental, a documenter of symptoms, both in the consulting room, and at the writer’s desk. Here, I pay tribute to him, as one storyteller to another, in the form of a story about Serge, the storyteller, and friend.'  (Publication abstract)
1 [Book Launch] Trouble Tomorrow Arnold Zable , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
1 5 y separately published work icon The Fighter : A True Story Arnold Zable , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2016 9178141 2016 single work biography

'So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It animates his gestures, powers his determined little walk.

'HENRY Nissen was a champion boxer, the boy from Amess Street in working-class Carlton who fought his way up to beat some of the world’s best in the 1970s. Now, he works on the Melbourne docks, loading and unloading, taking shifts as they come up. But his real work is on the streets. He’s in and out of police stations and courts giving character statements and providing support, working to give the disaffected another chance. And all the while, in the background is the memory of another fighter, his mother—and her devastating decline into madness. The Fighter is a moving and poetic portrait of a compassionate man, but also a window onto the unnoticed recesses of Melbourne.' (Publication summary)
1 Introduction Arnold Zable , 2016 essay
— Appears in: Zwishn Himl un Waser 2016;

'The newest addition to the Text Classics is Herz Bergner’s Between Sky & Sea, a dark and compelling tale of a group of Jewish refugees on board a dilapidated freighter charting a course for Australia. Fleeing terrible scenes of destruction in Europe, they are bound by a deep sense of loss and the uncertainty of their fate. Arnold Zable’s introduction (extracted below) highlights the chilling parallels between Bergner’s tale and the sinking of the SIEVX off the Australian coast, giving the reader pause to reflect on the continuing plight of asylum seekers throughout history and across the globe.'  (Introduction)
1 The Two Abrahams Arnold Zable , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 115 2015; (p. 16-17)
1 The (Finely Crafted) Pen Is Mightier, Says Zable Arnold Zable , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , May 2015; (p. 13)
1 Where We Meet Arnold Zable , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: The Intervention : An Anthology 2015; (p. 214-227)
1 Introduction Arnold Zable , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Joyful Strains : Making Australia Home 2013; (p. 10-17)
1 Zahra's Lullaby Arnold Zable , 2013 single work prose
— Appears in: A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013; (p. 116-126)
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