[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [faqs] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [contact us]
|
The
2003 Award
|
|
Corfu by
Robert Dessaix
Nominated by:
|
Publisher of Nominated Edition: Picador ISBN 033036278X |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
|
ABOUT
THE BOOK
|
| In
a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never
met, a young Australian actor gradually pieces together the strange life
story of the writer whose house he is living in. As he explores his surroundings
and makes new friends in Corfu, his own life begins to appear to him like
an illuminating shadow-play of his absent host's. Inspired by the life of the little-known Australian writer Kester Berwick, Corfu is about friendship, love, the ordinary and the extraordinary, exile and home. Set in the physical landscapes of the Greek islands, Adelaide and the suburbs of London, it is also a meditation on literary landscapes- Homer, Sappho, Cavafy and Chekhov - and the part art can play in making our lives beautiful. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Robert Dessaix is a writer, literary commentator, translator and broadcaster. Having taught Russian language and literature for many years, he was ABC Radio National's weekly 'Books and Writing' presenter from 1985 to 1995. Among his works are Turgenev: The Quest for Faith (1980), Anthology of Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing (editor, 1993), A Mother's Disgrace (autobiography, 1994), Night Letters (novel, 1996), Speaking Their Minds: Intellectuals and the Public Culture (editor, 1998) and (and so forth) (collection of essays and short stories, 1998). He lives in Melbourne. |
 |
[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [faqs] [contact us]
Copyright
© 2007 Dublin City Public Libraries
