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Grunge Lit
Grunge lit (an abbreviation for "grunge literature") is an Australian literary genre usually applied to fictional or semi-autobiographical writing concerned with dissatisfied and disenfranchised young people living in suburban or inner-city surroundings, or in "in-between" spaces that fall into neither category (e.g., living in a mobile home or sleeping on a beach). It was typically written by "new, young authors"Leishman, Kirsty, 'Australian Grunge Literature and the Conflict between Literary Generations', ''Journal of Australian Studies'', 23.63 (1999), pp. 94–102 who examined "gritty, dirty, real existences", of lower-income young people, whose egocentric or narcissistic lives revolve around a nihilistic or "slacker" pursuit of casual sex, recreational drug use and alcohol, which are used to escape boredom. The marginalized characters are able to stay in these "in-between" settings and deal with their "abject bodies" (health problems, disease, etc.). Grunge lit has been descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praise (novel)
''Praise'' is the first novel of Australian author Andrew McGahan which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1991 for unpublished manuscripts and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Inspired by the writings of Charles Bukowski, the semi-autobiographical account of a doomed, drug and alcohol-fuelled relationship became an Australian bestseller, and is often credited with launching the short-lived "grunge lit" movement – terminology that McGahan himself (along with most of the writers to whom it was applied) rejected. Synopsis As the story begins, narrator Gordon Buchanan quits his job at a drive-through bottle shop in Brisbane. He and his live-in girlfriend Cynthia LaMonde, a waitress, inhabit a world of casual sex, plentiful drugs and partying till dawn, pastimes that don't really give Gordon much pleasure, plagued as he is by a sense of being unfulfilled. Love affairs gone bad and fantasies undercut by reality are the norm for a generation that stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Garner At Adelaide Writer's Week
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes *Helen (band) * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 film), an Indian film produced by Vineeth Sreenivasan * Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generation X
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the Demography, demographic Cohort (statistics), cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials. Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. By this definition and United States Census, U.S. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation; Xers are also often the parents of Generation Z. As children in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of shifting societal values, Gen Xers were sometimes called the "Latchkey kid, Latchkey Generation", a reference to their returning as children from school to an empty home and using a key to let themselves in. This was a result of what is now called free-range parenting, increasing divorce rates, and increased maternal participation in the workforce b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narcissism
Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others. Narcissism, named after the Greek mythological figure ''Narcissus'', has evolved into a psychological concept studied extensively since the early 20th century, and it has been deemed highly relevant in various societal domains. Narcissism exists on a continuum that ranges from normal to abnormal personality expression. While many psychologists believe that a moderate degree of narcissism is healthy narcissism, normal and healthy in humans, there are also more extreme forms, observable particularly in people who have a personality condition like narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), where one's narcissistic qualities become pathological, leading to functional impairment and psychosocial disability. It has also been discussed in dark triad studies, along with subclinical psychopathy and Machiavellianism (psychology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Waldren
Murray Waldren is an Australian journalist, editor and writer. He has written for ''The Australian'', an Australian newspaper for over two decades. He has written "...literary profiles, interviews, reviews, reports and columns" for ''The Australian'', ''The Weekend Australian'' and ''The Weekend Australian Magazine''. Waldren runs the Literary Liaisons website. He has served as a judge for several writing awards, including ''The Australian''/Vogels Awards, the NSW Premiers Award, the ABC Fiction Award and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Publications In 1972, Waldren wrote ''Ratatouille'' with David Peacock and Trevor Marshall; it was published by Tomato Press. In 1997, the book ''To Build A Bridge'', which he co-wrote with David Moore, was published. In 1999 he edited the book ''Future Tense'', which was published by Allen & Unwin. He wrote the true crime book ''Moran V Moran'', which was shortlisted for Best True Crime award and for the Crime Writers' Association of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. Early life Tsiolkas was born and raised in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents, and was educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed his Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987. He co-edited the student newspaper '' Farrago'' in 1987. Career Tsiolkas' first novel, '' Loaded'' (1995), about an alienated gay youth in Melbourne, was adapted as the feature film '' Head On'' (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. His fourth novel, '' The Slap'', was published in 2008, and won several awards as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. It was also highly successful commercially; it was the fourth-highest selling book by an Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River Ophelia
''The River Ophelia'' is an Australian novel by Justine Ettler first published by Picador in 1995. The story moves between first-person narrative to an unnamed observer. It was highly controversial in Australia upon its publication, with some prominent critics dismissing it as pornographic, though Ettler herself has strongly denied this. Since its initial publication, critics and scholars have read deeper meaning into the novel's plot and style, with some determining it as a post-modernism novel about domestic violence, nihilism in urban environments and toxic relationships, with absurdist or surreal features. The book was shortlisted for the 1995 Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction - Horror Division - Best Novel. The first edition cover published by Picador in 1995 features the tagline "an uncompromising love story" underneath the title, and while the novel does explore a no strings attached sexual relationship, Ettler has been adamant in stating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey Grip (novel)
''Monkey Grip'' is a 1977 novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. Set in Melbourne, the novel follows single-mother Nora as she narrates her increasingly tumultuous relationship with a heroin addict, juxtaposed with her raising a daughter while living in bohemian share houses. The novel initially received a mixed critical reception while achieving notoriety for its astute, uncompromising depiction of heroin addiction, sexuality, relationships and love. Garner later admitted that there was an autobiographical element to the novel, with much of its plot being diaristic and based on her own experiences. Despite dividing early critics, the book sold well and helped establish Garner as one of the best-known writers in Australia. In the 1990s, when critics identified the Australian literary genre of grunge lit, ''Monkey Grip'' was retrospectively categorised as a seminal example. It is now widely considered a classic of modern Australian literature and one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Garner
Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's debut novel, first novel, ''Monkey Grip (novel), Monkey Grip'', published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literature, Australian literary scene—it is now widely considered a classic. She has a reputation for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her widespread attention, particularly with her novels ''Monkey Grip'' and ''The Spare Room'' (2008). Throughout her career, Garner has written both fiction and non-fiction. She attracted controversy with her book ''The First Stone'' (1995) about a Sexual harassment, sexual-harassment scandal in a university college. She has also written for film and theatre, and has consistently won awards for her work, including the Walkley Award for a 1993 ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine report. Adaptations of two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Ettler
Justine Ettler (born 1965) is an Australian author who is best known for her 1995 novel, ''The River Ophelia'', which was shortlisted for the 1995 Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction - Horror Division - Best Novel. She is a seminal figure in Australian " grunge fiction" or "dirty realism" literature of the mid-1990s and was labelled 'The Empress of Grunge'. Her second published novel is ''Marilyn's Almost Terminal New York Adventure'' (1996) but technically it is her first novel as she wrote ''Marilyn's Almost Terminal New York Adventure'' novel before she wrote ''The River Ophelia''. She has also worked as a literary reviewer for newspapers such as The Observer, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', a teacher, and academic. ''The River Ophelia'' caught the public's attention due to its striking cover of a nude woman in black and white photography and the marketing of the book was widely discussed in literary circles. All of the major Australian newspapers l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona McGregor
Fiona Kelly McGregor is an Australian writer, performance artist, and art critic whose third novel, ''Indelible Ink'', won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year Award. Early life and education McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales. Career McGregor has written for a variety of publications including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''HEAT'', ''Sydney Review of Books'', ''Meanjin'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Art Monthly'', ''The Monthly'', ''The Saturday Paper'' and ''RealTime''. In 2020 she began publishing under her full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor. Following the publication of her first two books in 1993 and 1994, McGregor was named one of the inaugural ''Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. Since then, McGregor has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards for her short stories, novels and essays. As a performance artist McGregor toured with ''You Have the Body'', a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09, and she screened h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin (born 27 March 1955)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: F–J'' Retrieved 19 December 2013. ''Note'': Jaivin has advised of a typographical error: "27 May" should read "27 March". This agrees with a statement made on her own website: is an American-born Australian sinologist, translator and novelist. Early life Linda Jaivin was born in New London, Connecticut, to a Jewish family of Russian heritage. Her grandfathers were Jewish refugees from Tsarist Russia, who emigrated to Argentina and the United States. Her interest in |
