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Chris Andrews Chris Andrews i(A2546 works by) (a.k.a. Christopher Andrews)
Born: Established: 1962 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Dr Chris Andrews holds a BSc (Melbourne), BA Hons and MA (Melbourne), and a PhD (Melbourne). He has translated three books by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolano: By Night in Chile (2003), Distant Star (2004) and Last Evenings on Earth (2006) as well as Varamo by Cesar Aira.. Andrews has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies. In 2009, he took up a position at the University of Western Sydney where he has taught literary translation and comparative literature in the School of Humanities and Languages.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 shortlisted Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — The Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry for 'Loss-invaded Catalogue'.
2020 shortlisted The Newcastle Poetry Prize for 'The Island in the Roundabout'.
2018 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund

to give a paper at the International Conference on Comparative Translation in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Awards for Works

Bonsai Road Trip i "Thing was, did she want to be spending", 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 167 2023; (p. 12-13)
2022-2023 shortlisted Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
Shedload i "I shove the shed door open. That smell:", 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 167 2023; (p. 8-9)
2022-2023 runner-up Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
Loss-invaded Catalogue i "The face of the meteoric school", 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 450 2023; (p. 41)
2023 shortlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize
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