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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... vol. 94 no. 3 Summer 2020 of World Literature Today est. 1977 World Literature Today
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Broken Novels, Ruptured Worlds : A Conversation with Michelle de Kretser, Roberta Trape (interviewer), single work interview

'Australian novelist Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated to Australia when she was fourteen. She worked for many years as an editor at Lonely Planet and was responsible for setting up their French series as well as a travel literature series, Journeys. The author of several award-winning novels, de Kretser published her most recent, The Life to Come, in 2017. It won the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2019 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. A short monograph, On Shirley Hazzard, was published in 2019. 

'De Kretser lives in Sydney, where she is an honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney. Her fiction is both vividly grounded in place and transnational. Her settings include Australia, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, France, Italy, and India. A. S. Byatt has described de Kretser as “a master storyteller who writes quickly and lightly of wonderful and terrible things.” Neel Mukherjee called her “preternaturally attuned to the patient rage of history,” while Hilary Mantel notes de Kretser’s “formidable technique.” 

'In this conversation, de Kretser and Roberta Trapè discuss tourism as privilege, casual racism, Australian politics, Shirley Hazzard, and the role of clothes in fiction.' (Introduction)

(p. 28-33)
Why Iranians Continue to Seek Refuge in Australia, Shokoofeh Azar , single work criticism

'Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2010. Her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, originally written in Farsi, was shortlisted for Australia's 2018 Stella Prize for Fiction and the 2020 International Booker Prize. Here she recalls her refugee journey from Iran to Christmas Island and reveals why Iranians continue migrating to Australia, despite the absence of war.' (Introduction)

(p. 38-43)
Reviewed Work : The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee, Arthur Willemse , single work review
— Review of The Death of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , 2019 single work novel ;
(p. 78)

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