Antipodes (1985) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer David Malouf. It was published by Chatto and Windus in 1985.[1]
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| Author | David Malouf |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 160 pp |
| ISBN | 0701128518 |
| Preceded by | Harland's Half Acre |
| Followed by | Untold Tales |
The collection includes 13 stories by the author from a variety of literary magazines.[1]
Contents
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Dedication
edit- "To Judith Rodriguez and Thomas W. Shapcott."
Critical reception
editWriting in The Canberra Times reviewer Marion Halligan noted: "Most of the stories involve European-Australian confrontations, in their countries or ours. But these don't have the relatively simple complexities of Henry James, where the dichotomies of good and bad, positive and negative, vitality and corruption, in old and new societies, are clear enough. Here they are variable and muddled...Malouf is already admired as apoet and novelist. Readers of literary magazines (that is, almost nobody but would-be publishees of those magazines) will have read some of these stories before. It's good to have them collected together."[2]
Publication history
editAfter its original publication in 1985[3] the collection was reprinted as follows:
The collection was also translated into Swedish in 1988, and German in 1999.[1]
Awards
editThe collection won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in 1985.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Antipodes by David Malouf". Austlit. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ ""Malouf's complex opposites"". The Canberra Times, 13 April 1985, p18. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Antipodes (Chatto and Windus 1985)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Antipodes (Penguin 1986)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Antipodes (Vintage 1999)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Vance Palmer Prize 1985". Austlit. Retrieved 15 November 2023.