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Dedication: For the boys I love, especially Roger and Rafael.
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Featured by the BIG Book Club , an initiative supported by The Advertiser in partnership with Arts SA, The Australia Council for the Arts, Channel 7 and FIVEAA to promote a love of reading, discussion and literature, June 2005.
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Work in Progress : Multicultural Writing in Australia
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 243-257) -
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Witnessing Australian Stories : History, Testimony and Memory in Contemporary Culture
Melbourne
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2010
6037495
2010
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thesis
'This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians–politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.
'Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.
'When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transactions critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.' (Publisher's blurb)
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The 'Third Space' as Void : Exile and Self-Destruction in Eva Sallis's 'The Marsh Birds'
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe 2008; (p. 135-148) -
The Interview: Eva Sallis
Susan Errington
(interviewer),
2008
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interview
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Winter no. 11 2008; (p. 24-26) -
Escape and Acceptance
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 185-186)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel
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Dhurgham's Dream
2005
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 271 2005; (p. 46)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel -
Message Hits Home
2005
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 May 2005; (p. 12)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel -
Fictional Truths
2005
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 May 2005; (p. 15)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel -
A Boy Lost as Justice is Set Adrift
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 May 2005; (p. 23)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel -
Escape from Loss and Left in Limbo
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 May 2005; (p. 13)
— Review of The Marsh Birds 2005 single work novel -
The Good Neighbour
2005
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biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 7 May 2005; (p. 24-26, 30) -
Life Through the Eyes of a Teen Boy in Detention
2005
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 June 2005; (p. 24) -
A Voice for the Lost Souls
2005
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biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 June 2005; (p. 11) -
The Year's Work in Fiction
2005
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review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 56-67) Shortlisted books for the 2004-2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award. -
In the Wake of the Tampa : Multiculturalism, Cultural Citizenship and Australian Refugee Narratives
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Dislocations 2006; (p. 21-35) Through the concept of cultural citizenship, Ommundsen comments on recent literary portrayals of asylum seeking and refugee experiences and how they might speak to contemporary views on multiculturalism in Australia.
Awards
- 2007 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2006 highly commended ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2006 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2006 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Award for Fiction
- 2006 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best Book
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cIraq,cMiddle East, Asia,
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cSyria,cMiddle East, Asia,
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cAustralia,c
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cNew Zealand,cPacific Region,