Jennifer Strauss (born January 30, 1933) is a contemporary Australian

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. Strauss is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

Biography

Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and

Melbourne University The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

. Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing anthologies and several volumes of her own poetry. The current president of the Australian Federation of University Women Strauss is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

. In 2007, Strauss was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for her work in education, her work as an academic in the fields of literature and poetry and for her work in woman's issues and industrial relations.

Works

Poetry *''Children and Other Strangers: Poems''. (1975) *''Winter Driving: Poems''. (1981) *''Labour Ward''. (Pariah, 1988) *''Tierra del Fuego: New and selected poems''. (Pariah, 1997) Non-fiction *''Stop laughing! I'm Being Serious: Three studies in seriousness and wit in contemporary Australian poetry''. (1990) *''Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood''. (UQP, 1992) *''Judith Wright''. (OUP, 1995) Edited *''Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family''. (Oxford, 1998) *''The Oxford Literary History of Australia''. With

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(Oxford, 1999) *''The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1, 1887-1929''. (Australian Academy of the Humanities/UQP, 2005) review
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References

External links

ASAL Congratulates Jennifer Strauss
Association for the Study of Australian Literature (Retrieved 23-July-2007) *

Poem

1933 births Living people Australian literary critics Australian women literary critics Academics from Melbourne Poets from Melbourne Members of the Order of Australia Australian women poets {{Australia-poet-stub