The Best Australian Essays 2011

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Ramona Koval
Black Inc., 2011 - Literary Collections - 299 pages
'Turn the page and hear the voices within ...'-Ramona Koval

The Best Australian Essays 2011 offers up bliss and illumination in equal measure - from the pleasures of the flesh to the events that convulsed the world in a year of change. Paul Kelly meditates on Frank Sinatra, and Robert Manne excavates the past and thoughts of Julian Assange. Inga Clendinnen dreams on cricket memories, and Anna Krien delves into the saga of the St Kilda schoolgirl. There is Peter Robb on Italian food, Anthony Lane on News of the World, Gail Bell on rats and Richard Flanagan on photography. This is a collection with something for everyone that never wavers in its quality.

Contributors include: Gillian Mears, David Malouf, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Anthony Lane, M.J. Hyland, Craig Sherborne, Anna Krien, Inga Clendinnen, Gail Bell, Helen Elliott, Morris Lurie, Maria Tumarkin, Andrew Sant, Shakira Hussein, Lian Hearn, Amanda Lohrey, Paul Kelly, Peter Robb, Clive James, Delia Falconer, Richard Flanagan and Andrew O'Hagan.
 

Contents

Introduction
1938
David Malouf
1956
Robert Manne
1979
Anthony Lane
10
J Hyland
Anna Krien
Peter Conrad
Gail Bell
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Ramona Koval was born in 1954 in Australia. She is a broadcaster, writer and journalist. Koval has written several books, including a novel, Samovar, and a cookbook Jewish Cooking, Jewish Cooks. She has written for many newspapers and international journals, and her interviews have been published in book form. Her latest collection of Radio National interviews is Tasting Life Twice: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, published by ABC Books. In 1995 Koval won the Order of Australia Media Award for a series of radio programs entitled "Writing from the Centre" and broadcast on ABC Radio National. Koval has served on the board of the Australian Book Review. In 2015 she was appointed Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne. Also in 2015 her title Bloodhound: Searching for My Father met with wide acclaim among the critics.She will be featured at the Mudgee Readers' Festival 2015.

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