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Alternative title: Jennifer Byrne Presents : Hoaxes
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Hoaxes
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In this episode of Jennifer Byrne Presents, Jennifer Byrne and guests 'embark on a fascinating exploration of one of the most popular writing genres - literary hoaxes. Hoaxes are almost as old as literature itself and they take many forms - frauds, plagiarism, pranks and impostures. Some hoaxes are perpetrated for money, some as practical jokes while others serve a political argument. Authorial intention, historical and social context and ethical implications must be considered. Central to most hoaxes is the concept of identity - the author's race and gender and what readers are led to believe from this apparent identity.

'In Jennifer Byrne Presents, we explore some of the most famous literary hoaxes and scandals from Ern Malley to Norma Khouri and Helen Demidenko, from the point of view of those who created them, and those who unmasked them...

'Joining Jennifer is Malcolm Knox, who broke the Norma Khouri hoax story, Walkley award-winning journalist and author Jack Marx, Michael Heyward, author of The Ern Malley Affair (1993) an account of the literary hoax perpetrated by poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, and finally, John Bayley, who posed as Leon Carmen's literary agent and together they created the fictional Indigenous author Wanda Koolmatrie. Her novel My Own Sweet Time, won the 1996 Nita May Dobbie Award for a first novel by a female writer.'

Source: ABC1 website, http://www.abc.net.au/tv/
Sighted: 10 March 2009

Notes

  • First screened on ABC1, 10 March 2009.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2009 .
      Link: 15302427Web Resource Sighted: 28/11/2018
      Note/s:
      • First aired 10th March 2009.

      Series: form Jennifer Byrne Presents Jennifer Byrne , 2007 series - publisher film/TV
      — Appears in: The Book Club 2006-2017;

      'Jennifer Byrne Presents is a series of special episodes featuring intimate one-on-one interviews with some of the leading authors of our time, plus panel discussions with Australian and international authors and expert celebrity guests. Topics include explorations into popular reading genres, literary controversies and titles that have helped shaped the literary landscape.'

      Source: Publisher's blurb.

Works about this Work

Shonky Writing's Long and Colourful History Elizabeth Meryment , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 March 2009; (p. 32)

— Review of Hoaxes Jennifer Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
Shonky Writing's Long and Colourful History Elizabeth Meryment , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 March 2009; (p. 32)

— Review of Hoaxes Jennifer Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
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