Jon Fosse’s Slow Prose, 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature
The 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature is announced. Relive world literature’s night of nights with this…
culture / history / literature
New Article: Reflections on Patrick White’s Nobel Prize and Australian cultural history
My thoughts on Australian cultural history on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Patrick White’s…
Why read Olga Tokarczuk, Winner of 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature? Podcast Ep. 120
Why read Olga Tokarczuk, Winner of 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature? Find out in this fourth…
Podcast #119 Why read Patrick White, (1973 Nobel Prize), exile at home?
It turns out, despite his stern reputation, Patrick White can laugh, smile and even pat a…
Podcast on 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, W.B. Yeats.
On the podcast this week I did the second of my series on the Nobel Prize, and featured the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler (W.B.) Yeats.
Podcast on History of Nobel Prize for Literature and Annie Ernaux.
On the podcast this week I started a mini-series on the Nobel Prize for Literature, in the lead-up to the announcement of the prize on 5 October. I cover the history of the Prize, some favourite winners, and last year’s laurreate, French writer, Annie Ernaux.
culture / history / literature
Endurance in War and Politics for Non-Political Souls
I wrote in my previous post about the rhetoric of “as long as it takes” on…
Olga Tokarcuk, Nobel Prize and multicultural identities
I watched a wonderful interview with Olga Tokarczuk, the author of The Books of Jacob and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Day Three of Thirteen Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat
The third chapter of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bureaucrat is the title essay, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bureaucrat’. It plays with Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and seeks to open up the reader’s mind to the many unexpected, even poetic ways you can look at this plain, humble, even despised personality, the bureaucrat.
Day Two of Thirteen Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat
The second chapter of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bureaucrat is Silenced Voice of the…