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‘When the Australian novelist Xavier Herbert applied for a War Service Pension in 1975, the Western Australian authorities were unable to verify his existence. The Deputy Commissioner requested that he supply his birth certificate. ‘Of course I do not have one,’ he responded, ‘have never had one.’ He had been born, he said, at a time and a place when records often were not kept, a frontier space where established social conventions had given way to makeshift. He had been told that he was born on 15 May 1901, and had always operated on that assumption, until now being informed that he had no official existence at all.’ (Author’s introduction 187)
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The Materialization and Transformation of Xavier Herbert : A Body of Work Committed to Australia
Subjects:
- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
- Xavier Herbert's Birth : The Documentary Record 1988 single work biography
- Disturbing Element 1963 single work autobiography
- Poor Fellow My Country 1975 single work novel
- Australia 2008 single work film/TV
- Capricornia : The Bastard Son 2000 single work criticism
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