Born: Established: 1966 Mildura, Mildura area, North West Victoria, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
- 2023 shortlisted Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship
Awards for Works
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Grimmish
Melbourne
:
Westbourne Books
,
2021
24013894
2021
single work
novel
'Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns Fight of the Century; on the west coast he was committed to an insane asylum. In between he played with the concept and reality of pain in a shocking manner not witnessed before or since. Award-winning writer Michael Winkler braids the story of Grim in Australia and meditations on pain with thoughts on masculinity and vulnerability, plus questionable jokes, in a haymaker of experimental non-fiction.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2022 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2022 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Small-run Book
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