Over the last twelve months or so, The Conversation has published occasional articles titled "My favourite fictional character". In each article the writer names a character and justifies their choice. As far as I can tell, there have been six so far, and most have chosen non-Australian characters. The choosers and their choices have been: … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: My favourite (Australian) fictional character(s)
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Memorable Australian fictional families
A bit of a fun post this week that I hope will engage you, regardless of where you live or what you read. This post is a sort of companion to one I wrote back in 2017 on Memorable Australian characters. I've had this post in mind ever since then, but have kept putting it … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Memorable Australian fictional families
Monday musings on Australian literature: Memorable Australian characters
The inspiration for today's somewhat fun post, came from something more serious, Kim Scott's Ray Mathew lecture that I attended last week. As I was waiting in the National Library's gorgeous theatre waiting for the lecture to start, I found myself thinking about Bobby in Scott's novel That deadman dance. What I realised was that … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Memorable Australian characters
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