... Writers . 2nd ed . Port Melbourne , Vic : D.W. Thorpe / National Centre for Research and Development in Australian Studies , 1996 . 205 p . ISBN 1-8755-8977-5 . US $ 30 . Biographical and bibliographical information on almost 1,100 writers ...
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers.
... Criteria for selection of biographees have not been stated in detail . Pike ... Melbourne was brief but tempestuous ; Anthony Trollope , who was received as ... writers . The titles indexed were produced by American and British publishers ...
... selected documents from those files using criteria which include significance to policy formation or key issues , and impact . They have attempted to ensure that as many aspects of the issue as possible are represented in the selection ...
... process of reconstruction and reemergence after perhaps the most violent revolutionary upheaval of all times. No general statement is possible for which all of the supporting data is adequate and incontrovertible, and much is ...
... selection of books published in Australia in the pre- ceding three months ... Melbourne Writers ' Festival in Oct- ober this year . Anyone interested in ... criteria other than literary excellence will surely be anathema to genuine poetry ...