Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by ten other works of fiction, including The Plains and most recently Border Districts. In 1999 Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in 2009 he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He lives in western Victoria.

‘Reading Murnane, one cares less about what is happening in the story and more about what one is thinking about as one reads. The effect of his writing is to induce images in the reader’s own mind, and to hold the reader inside a world in which the reader is at every turn encouraged to turn his or her attention to those fast flocking images.’ New York Times

Paris Review attends the ‘Another World in this One’ Murnane symposium
Sydney Review of Books: Gerald Murnane’s conference paper from the Murnane symposium
New York Times: Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?
New York Times: Two New Books From Australia, Unconstrained by Literary Convention
Guardian: Gerald Murnane: one of Australia's greatest writers you may never have heard of.
Guardian: ‘It’s uncanny’: acclaim at last for Gerald Murnane, lost genius of Australian letters
Australian: Writer Gerald Murnane and his private world in Goroke, Victoria ($)
El Pais (Español)
Monthly ($)
New Yorker: The Reclusive Giant of Australian Letters