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Evelyn Juers | |
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| Born | 6 March 1950 Neritz, Germany |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Education | University of Essex |
| Occupation | Writer |
Evelyn Juers (born 6 March 1950) is an Australian writer and publisher.
Juers was born in Neritz, Germany, moved to Australia in 1960, and has lived in Hamburg, Sydney, London and Geneva. She has a PhD from University of Essex on the Brontës and the practice of biography. As an essayist and an art and literary critic, she has contributed to a wide range of Australian and international publications. She has written on women’s literature, weavers, travellers, explorers, birds, libraries, and on the work of Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Bill Henson, Narelle Jubelin, Anne Ferran, Anne Zahalka, Robert Mapplethorpe, Guan Wei, Jacqueline Rose, Albert Namatjira, Margaret Michaelis, Emily Brontë, Bertold Brecht, Christa Wolf, Kate Jennings, W.G. Sebald, Virginia Woolf, Brian Castro, Nicholas Jose, J. M. Coetzee, Helen Garner, Charmian Clift. With her husband Ivor Indyk,[1] she co-founded the literary magazine HEAT, and is co-publisher of the Giramondo Publishing company.
- ^ Nikki Barrowclough, "Burning bright", The Age, 14 June 2003, Good Weekend, p. 41