![]() ![]() Ben LernerĬonceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of fiction, Border Districts was written after the author moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera plains, near the border with South Australia. Murnane is interested in what part of consciousness – of sensation, of emotion – might be shareable and what part is irreducibly individual, a private territory. ![]() No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction. CoetzeeĪ genius on the level of Beckett Teju Cole ![]() The emotional conviction… is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief. His last work of fiction, Border Districts, received the the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2018 ALS Gold Medal, and longlisted for the 2018 Voss Literary Prize. He is the author of eleven works of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, The Plains, Inland, Barley Patch, A History of Books, A Million Windows, and Border Districts, and a collection of essays , Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. He is a recipient of an Emeritus Fellowship from the Australia Council, the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. ![]()
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