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The Booker Prize and why it matters
- Gillian Bouras
- 12 November 2024
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As the Booker Prize winner is announced, the perennial questions resurface: What does winning truly mean for writers — and for readers? As public values shift, literary prizes ignite fierce debate about artistic merit, cultural relevance, and the commercial impact of awards. Can a prize still shape the future of fiction?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The way we lived then
- Ken Haley
- 06 September 2024
When we look back a decade hence on the way we lived in 2020, Shirley is going to serve as a literary time capsule. If you’re in search of a visceral feel for what it’s like to live in a specific place at a specific time — namely Melbourne in 2020, as the first pandemic in a century casts a pall over the zest for life itself — this book is a must read.
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Who loves longer? In conversation with Richard Flanagan
- Michael McGirr
- 01 December 2023
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Flanagan’s new book, Question 7, a beautiful and profound reading experience. It is a deeply personal memoir, a net woven from many threads. It traces the fine lines that link stories across time and around the world.
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AUSTRALIA

Uncle Kevin's letters home from the war
- Kerry Murphy
- 24 April 2015
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I never met my uncle Kevin, who was killed on 9 February 1942 in Singapore. However we were fortunate to have a collection of his letters home from Malaya and reading his letters gives a brief glimpse into his life at war. His final signoff to my grandmother was: 'We’ve still to get our first shock yet but after the first few enemy "bangs" I guess there will be nothing to it.'
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Richard Flanagan sorts suffering from virtue
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 21 November 2014
4 Comments
Winning the prestigious Man Booker prize has given Richard Flanagan's 2013 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North precious new shelf life. I've long considered Flanagan an alchemist - giving everyday words an unmistakable verve and turning a phrase until it takes flight. But he's also a proud Tasmanian storyteller who now has the world's ear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Frantic chat on the world wide spider web
- Various
- 30 April 2013
3 Comments
And in the raucosity of blogs, the avidity of trolls, the ubiquity of porn, the vidvidvidity of tubes, the facebookery of profiles, the aviary of twittervation — can the mind still find that space to stretch itself?
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MEDIA

'Poverty porn' and the politics of representation
- Tulsi Bisht
- 28 July 2009
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Put-downs of post-colonial India are often seen as a continuation of the colonial mentality. The Indian media's portrayal of Australia as racist following the attacks on Indian students does more harm than good.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Nomads' perspective on destruction of the planet
- Robert Hefner
- 22 January 2007
After many thousands of years, modernity is sweeping away nomadic existence. Cosmologies such as Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

True fakes
- Simon Caterson
- 20 April 2006
We all know about the supposedly true books that turn out to be fakes, but perhaps even more remarkable is the way fiction can somehow become fact.
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Keywords: Booker Prize