Julian Evans is a British-Australian writer. In 1990 he left his office job to become a writer and spent six months travelling among the islands of the south

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. In 1992 he published ''Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific''. This launched him on a career as a writer of books, travel articles, essays, and radio and television documentaries on literary subjects. In 2008 he published ''Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis''; Evans wrote about writer and adventurer Norman Lewis after Lewis described Evans's ''Transit of Venus'' as "far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times." His most recent book is ''Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War'' (2024), a personal history of his involvement with the city over 30 years. He is also a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the ''

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Works

*''Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis'' (Jonathan Cape, June 2008,

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June 2009) *''I sotteranei del Vaticano: rereading André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican'' (Metauro Edizioni,

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2006) *"Remettez-moi ça" ("Really very fortunate"), La Revue Littéraire vol.1 no.1, April 2004 *"Un gâchis" ("A waste"), L'Atelier du Roman no. 29, March 2002 *''José Saramago: A Life of Resistance'' (

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film), 2002 *''The Romantic Road'' (

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20-part radio series), 2000-2 *''Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific'' (

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1992, Pantheon 1992 (US); revised edition

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2014)

References

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