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AUSTRALIAN
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Critic of the Month
Gillian Dooley and ABR Embarrassed
by her scanty knowledge of modern Australian literature, Gillian
approached ABR, thinking that regular reviewing would help to
make up for that deficiency. Still dispirited by the number of
books in the world remaining for her to read, she has been reviewing
regularly for ABR and Radio Adelaide's Writers' Radio since
2001, and for the Adelaide Review since 2004. What
does Gillian Dooley seek to convey in a review?
Miriam Estensen's Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the Mysterious Great Southern Land, Allen & Unwin, 288/45 Michela Canepari-Labib's Old Myths: Modern Empires: Power, Language and Identity in J.M. Coetzee's Work, Peter Lang, 286/60 Extended Piece: Profiles in World Literature and Ideas: 'Coetzee's Freedom', 284/36 Ann Moyal's Alan Moorehead: A Rediscovery, NLA, 281/58 Gerald Walsh's Born of the Sun: Seven Young Australian Lives, Pandanus, 280/59 'National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries', NLA, 280/60 |
More ABR critics Brian
McFarlane has
had three sometimes overlapping careers. First was as a schoolteacher,
David
McCooey is
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Gillian
Dooley
was born in 1955, and grew up in Melbourne and Canberra, moving
to Adelaide in 1980. She was lucky enough to belong to a family
where intellectual and cultural life was as basic as breathing,
and where education was more important than new curtains. She
graduated from Australian National University in 1977 with a BA,
and worked as a legal secretary for nine years. Then she retrained
as a librarian. She has been at Flinders University Library, where
she is currently Special Collections Librarian, since 1990. Spending
her days helping students with their research made her deeply
envious, and she soon decided to undertake further study, eventually
achieving a PhD in English in 2001 with a thesis on Iris Murdoch,
Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul. An interest in Matthew Flinders
sparked by her library work led to her edition (with Tony Brown)
of his Private Journal (Friends of the State Library of
SA, 2005). Other publications include From a Tiny Corner in
the House of Fiction:
Conversations with Iris Murdoch (2003) and V.S. Naipaul,
Man and Writer (2006), both published by the University of
South Carolina Press.
after graduating from the Univers-ity of Melbourne: he taught in
schools in Victoria and England, ending this career with fifteen
years at Trinity Grammar, Melbourne. Brian was our 
alphabetical
order) an academic, critic, poet and reviewer. He lives in Geelong
where he is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Deakin University.
He has been a judge for a number of major literary awards, and he
is on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals.
David was 
ABR
board member Bridget Griffen-Foley is well known as a Packer biographer
and media critic. She was 
Freelance
critic Kerryn Goldsworthy, a former Editor of ABR and frequent
contributor, was October's Critic of the Month. 
James
Ley, this year's judge of the Age Book of the Year (Fiction),
was our September Critic of the Month. 
Our
August Critic of the Month was Brenda Niall, acclaimed author of
The Boyds and Judy Cassab. |
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