Ivor Indyk (born 1949) is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the

University of Western Sydney Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university in its current form was founde ...

, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and ''

HEAT In thermodynamics, heat is energy in transfer between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings by such mechanisms as thermal conduction, electromagnetic radiation, and friction, which are microscopic in nature, involving sub-atomic, ato ...

'' magazine. Indyk grew up in Sydney, the elder son of Polish Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland to the United Kingdom.Nikki Barrowclough, "Burning bright", ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'', 14 June 2003, Good Weekend, p. 41 He undertook his

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at the

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, and received a

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from

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. He has previously taught at the University of Sydney and University of Newcastle; in the late 1970s, he lectured for four years at the

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. He was named the Whitlam Chair in Writing and Society at the

in 2005. Indyk was co-editor of the literary periodical '' Southerly'' between 1989 and 1993, before founding the literary magazine ''HEAT'' in 1996. In 2001, he took a part-time appointment at the University of Newcastle to launch a new series of ''HEAT''. In 1995, he founded Giramondo Publishing."Incandescent Ivor Indyk turns down the heat"
by Miriam Cosic, ''

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'' (26 February 2011) Alongside many academic articles and newspaper reviews, Indyk was the author of a 1993

monograph A monograph is generally a long-form work on one (usually scholarly) subject, or one aspect of a subject, typically created by a single author or artist (or, sometimes, by two or more authors). Traditionally it is in written form and published a ...

on Australian writer

David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and Libretto, librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University ...

. The late academic and diplomat

Martin Indyk Martin Sean Indyk (July 1, 1951 – July 25, 2024) was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East. Indyk was a distinguished fellow in International Diplomacy and later executive vice preside ...

was his brother. He has been married to the writer and critic Evelyn Juers since 1978. Indyk was awarded the

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in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours.

References

External links

University of Western Sydney profile page

Austlit profile
Living people 1949 births Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Western Sydney University Australian Jews Australian literary critics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia University of Sydney alumni 20th-century Australian publishers (people) {{Australia-academic-bio-stub