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# The timing is perfect.
Just as you finish reading Purple's question, splat!
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 3:57, archived)
# you're australian, yes?
i'm doing research on australian literature.

do you have any favorite australian writers?

australian.
(schnurricane, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 3:59, archived)
# hmmm
I can't say I know many Australian authors. The famous ones are Colleen McCulloch and Thomas Kinneally (not sure of the spelling).

Being a scifi fan, I rather enjoy the work of Sara Douglass and Matthew Reilly, neither of which I'd consider "Australian Literature" :)

Personaly I think the stereotyped 'aussie culture' of bbqs, flies, dingos, thongs (flipflops), arid sheep stations and the black stump to be rather boring.

I rather enjoyed a book called Changi Photographer by a guy named George Aspinal which is an illustrated tale of a guy taking photos during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.

Probably not a lot of help, but there y'go :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:08, archived)
# no, very helpful.
thank you.
(schnurricane, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:11, archived)
# Peter Carey
...!

and that gay guy... Patrick White.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:13, archived)
# here's more Aussie writers
than you can shake a boomerang at:

ozlit.vicnet.net.au/

and of course the National Library has a selection of links:

www.nla.gov.au/oz/litsites.html
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:17, archived)
# woot!
much thankles, my friend.

now goodnight!
(schnurricane, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:18, archived)
# thank you very much.


now goodnight!
(schnurricane, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:17, archived)
# Peter Carey's great
read Bliss first.

or rent the movie.

:D
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 4:19, archived)
# Miles Franklin
Give her a Googling. She's fairly significant.

*relurks*
(I helped save b3ta! HairyCanary as Ann B. Davis as Alice, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 6:38, archived)