(1939-02-25) 25 February 1939 (age 85) Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Author
Nationality
Australian
Notable works
The Plains (1982)
Inland (1988)
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (2005)
Notable awards
Patrick White Award (1999)
Melbourne Prize for Literature (2009)
Prime Minister's Literary Awards (2018)
Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939)[1] is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Perhaps best known for his 1982 novel The Plains,[2] he has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, identity, and the Australian landscape, often blurring fiction and autobiography in the process. The New York Times described Murnane in 2018 as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of", and he is regularly tipped to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3]
^Uhlmann, Anthony, ed. (2020). Gerald Murnane. Sydney University Press. pp. ix. ISBN 9781743326404.
^"Wayne Macauley on Gerald Murnane's Most Memorable Book". Literary Hub. 24 November 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
^Binelli, Mark (27 March 2018). "Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018.
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mind functions. Call them stories (after Lydia Davis), reports (after GeraldMurnane), or screen tests (inventing a new genre altogether like Antoine Volodine)...
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the Melbourne Prize for Literature include: 2006: Helen Garner 2009: GeraldMurnane 2012: Alex Miller 2015: Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2018: Alison Lester 2021:...
Line of Fire (Text Publishing) Amy Witting for I for Isobel (Penguin) GeraldMurnane for Velvet Waters (McPhee Gribble) Les Murray for Collected Poems (Farrar...
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favorite of the Greek god Apollo.[citation needed] Australian author GeraldMurnane's debut novel Tamarisk Row (1974) is set on a farm bordered by a row...
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