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A Modern Classic Addresses Elemental Questions About Love and Power
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 15 March 2021;
— Review of The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel'It’s a fact readily acknowledged that one can encounter some books simply too late in life to appreciate — or, in some cases, even tolerate — them. The famous examples include “The Catcher in the Rye,” most of the Beats, all of Anaïs Nin. But I’m more curious about the counterpoint: Those books said to require experience, and age, to unlock.' (Introduction)
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“Only for Love” : Expatriatism, Amateur Reading and Shirley Hazzard’s Post-war World
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;'Alongside Shirley Hazzard’s largely European literary coordinates are also to be found traces of other more obscure figures, and of her persistent return to other sites and cultures. If the biographical narrative of her expatriatism arcs from Sydney to Manhattan via Naples and Capri, then Hiroshima, which she visited briefly in 1947 at age 16, and which reappears in her writing as a chronotope of post-nuclear modernity, is a trace of other possible expatriate trajectories. This essay examines this chronotope through and in light of Hazzard’s long-standing friendship with two US-born scholars of Japanese literature: Ivan Morris, one of the founders of US Amnesty International, and Donald Keene, a Japanese citizen resident in Tokyo until his death in 2019, and will examine the ways these friendships and the careers of these two fellow writers, both also expatriate for much of their lives, bore on Hazzard’s understanding of her own place in the world.' (Publication abstract)
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Australien
2019
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criticism
— Appears in: Verdenslitteraturer : Introduktion til litteraturen uden for Europa 2019; (p. 253-284) -
The Short Fiction of Shirley Hazzard
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 3 2017; (p. 20-25)'Over a publishing career spanning a half-century from the early 1960s. Shirley Hazzard published four acclaimed novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1961), The Bay of Noon (1970), The Transit of Venus (1980) and The Great Fire (2003). These novels focus on the intertwined matter of low and loss: they rake her readers into complex moral territory, with the certainties and compulsions of sexual and romantic love tested throughout by individual vulnerability. At the same time, and much in the manner of novels written a century earlier, they take up what Harvard referred to as "public themes," that is, the substantial human matter of political and social life, played out against the backdrop of the globalising world of the second half of the twentieth century.' (Introduction)
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Across the Face of the Sun
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , April 2015;
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Pick of the Week
2004
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 2004; (p. 4)
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Conventions of Presence
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1981; (p. 106-113)
— Review of Homesickness 1980 single work novel ; Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel ; Who Shot George Kirkland? : A Novel About the Nature of Truth 1981 single work novel -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 July 1980; (p. 21)
— Review of The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel -
Chance's Encounters
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: The Nation , 24 May vol. 230 no. 20 1980; (p. 633-634)
— Review of The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Vogue Australia , October 1980; (p. 112-113)
— Review of The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel -
Shirley Hazzard in Naples
2004
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biography
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 263 2004; (p. 9-10) -
The Transit of Venus : Shirley Hazzard (1931- )
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 142-246) -
Reading Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus II
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"There's always",
2008
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poetry
— Appears in: White Clay 2008; (p. 18-19) "22" 2009; (p. 4) -
Visual Art and Bourgeois Forms in Shirley Hazzard's Fiction
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2008; (p. 13-23) -
Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland : The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas 2009; (p. 125-145)
Awards
- 2007 shortlisted Prix Femina (France) — Roman Etranger (Foreign novel) Shortlisted for the 2007 translation by Claude Demanuelli.
- 1981 finalist National Book Awards (USA)
- 1980 winner National Book Critics' Circle (USA) — Fiction
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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New York (City),
New York (State),
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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Stockholm,
cSweden,cScandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1950-1980