Monique Grbec Monique Grbec i(12804884 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wurundjeri / Woiwurung
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1 Clint Bracknell and Kylie Bracknell Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage Monique Grbec , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25-31 May 2024;
— Review of Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage : Language Revival and Hecate Clint Bracknell , Kylie Farmer , 2024 multi chapter work criticism drama

'“Each night before I walked out onto the stage, I would imagine my mother walking beside me,” says the actor Trevor Ryan in Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage. “We would perform and speak our native tongue as one.”' (Introduction)   
1 Karen Wyld and Dominic Guerrera (eds) The Rocks Remain Monique Grbec , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 May 2024;
— Review of The Rocks Remain : Blak Poetry and Story 2024 anthology poetry prose
1 Tyson Yunkaporta : Right Story, Wrong Story Monique Grbec , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18-24 November 2023;
— Review of Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 multi chapter work criticism
1 Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie Monique Grbec , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14-20 October 2023;
— Review of Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel “Hear how soft the Warrar laps against these mangrove trunks? Like a wallaby lapping at a puddle. But in my Country the burragurra crashes onto the sand one hundred times louder; the waves are this high,” he demonstrated with a hand at his neck, “before they curl over and kiss the beach with passion, as though they really mean it. The pounding of the surf is the pounding of my heart.” (Introduction)
1 Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Eloise Grills , Monique Grbec , Jumaana Abdu , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2022;
— Review of Tell Me Again Amy Thunig , 2022 single work autobiography ; Men I Trust Tommi Parrish , 2022 single work graphic novel ; The Glass House Brooke Dunnell , 2022 single work novel ; The Lovers Yumna Kassab , 2022 single work novel
1 Books Roundup : Permafrost, Scary Monsters, Another Day in the Colony, How to End a Story Ellen Cregan , Mindy Gill , Monique Grbec , Fiona Murphy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2021;
— Review of Permafrost S. J. Norman , 2021 selected work short story ; Scary Monsters Michelle De Kretser , 2021 single work novel ; Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego , 2021 selected work essay ; How to End a Story : Diaries 1995–1998 Helen Garner , 2021 single work diary
1 Books Roundup : Small Joys of Real Life, Things We See in the Light, Lies, Damned Lies, My Body Keeps Your Secrets Ellen Cregan , Melanie Saward , Monique Grbec , Emily Clements , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2021;
— Review of Small Joys of Real Life Allee Richards , 2021 single work novel ; The Things We See in the Light Amal Awad , 2021 single work novel ; Lies, Damned Lies Claire G. Coleman , 2021 single work autobiography ; My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography
1 After Story, Larissa Behrendt Monique Grbec , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 24-30 July 2021;
— Review of After Story Larissa Behrendt , 2021 single work novel

'Larissa Behrendt’s second novel, the award-winning Legacy (2009), explored the influence of the father. Her new book, After Story, turns her gaze to the matriarchy, which she examines through the fractured relationship of Jasmine, a successful city lawyer, and her grief-stricken mother, Della, as they tour literary sites in England.' (Introduction)
1 Confronting the Stolen Tears Monique Grbec , 2018 single work
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 The Secret Darkness Monique Grbec , 2018 single work autobiography short story
— Appears in: Growing Up Indigenous in Australia 2018-2020;
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