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Collected Stories (Paperback)
Shirley Hazzard; Edited by Brigitta Olubas; Foreword by Zoe Heller
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Shirley Hazzard is one of Australia's most significant expatriate
authors, and a major international literary figure by any measure.
Her work has been extensively and extravagantly praised by writers
and reviewers, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard
Ford: 'If there has to be one best writer working in English today
it's Shirley Hazzard.' Similarly, novelist Michael Cunningham: 'One
of the greatest writers working in English today, and London Times
critic Brian Appleyard 'For me, the greatest living writer on
goodness and love'. She has received major literary awards
including the 2003 US National Book Award, the 2004 Miles Franklin
Award, the 2005 William Dean Howells Medal for best American novel,
the 1981 US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, the 1977 O.
Henry Short Story Award; and has been shortlisted for the Orange
Prize and the ('Lost') Man Booker prize. She is a Fellow of the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and an Honorary
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Despite the
critical acclaim for Hazzard's work, there has not yet been a full
critical study, and only a handful of scholarly articles have been
published since the early 1990s. This scholarly neglect is in part
a consequence of Hazzard's complicated location outside the limits
of national literary canons. In particular, Hazzard's highly
significant writing about the United Nations has never before been
considered by critics, and it is not widely known today that she
was the first writer to publish an account of the US State
Department McCarthyist involvement in UN hiring of staff from its
earliest years, and the first person to air claims that UN
Secretary-general Kurt Waldheim had concealed details of his World
War II activities. This public writing stands in a fascinating
relation to her highly wrought literary fiction, presenting
particular challenges to her critics and readers. This study brings
together Hazzard's highly regarded literary fiction and her
impassioned, polemical critiques of the United Nations through the
rubrics of her humanist thought and her deep commitment to
internationalist, cosmopolitan principles.This is an important book
for all literature, Australian literature, women writers and
contemporary fiction collections.
The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest
writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus and
winner of the National Book Award 'Lambent, discerning, deeply
intelligent and empathetic' Lucy Scholes, Financial Times
'Impeccably researched and deeply incisive' Lily King, New York
Times 'A refined, deeply insightful perspective' Chloe Schama,
Vogue 'Absorbing, well-crafted... scrupulously researched' Kirkus
Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Hazzard lived around the
world: in Hong Kong; Wellington, New Zealand; New York; Naples and
Capri and her writing -- cosmopolitan, richly intelligent,
beautiful, questing -- reflects her life. Her body of work is small
but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable, from among others,
Michael Cunningham, Zoe Heller, Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, Lauren
Goff, Hermione Lee, Joan Didion, Richard Ford, Colm Toibin. At
sixteen, she was living in Hong Kong with her family and working
for the British Combined Services. She later worked, another desk
job, for the United Nations in New York and, briefly, in Naples.
Italy -- Capri and Naples -- claimed her heart and after she was
married -- she was introduced to the biographer, Francis
Steegmuller by Muriel Spark -- they divided their time between
Italy and America. Drawing on diaries, letters, interviews
alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction -- Brigitta Olubas,
herself Australian -- tells the story of a girl from the suburbs
'with a head full of poetry' who fell early under the spell of
words and sought out first books and then people who loved books as
her companions. In the process she transformed and indeed created
her life. She became a woman of the world who felt injustice
keenly, a deep and original thinker, who wrote some of the most
beautiful fiction about love and longing, always with an eye to the
ways we reveal ourselves to another. This, the definitive biography
uncovers the truths and myths and about Shirley Hazzard's life and
work, which come together at the point, as Brigitta Olubas
observes: 'where the writer lives'.
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase
Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics,
international relations, the history and fraught present of Western
literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add
essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning
fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings
work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and
the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal
experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and
the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the
decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and
affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and
direct human life, despite-or maybe because of-the world's
disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the
twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this
collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events
defining postwar letters, thought, and politics.
This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the
acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of
the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and re-crossed
the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics. Hazzard's
oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author's life and
times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and
questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these
qualities, along with Hazzard's lyrical style that place her among
the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.
Hazzard's work has been duly praised and admired by many including
the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as 'the greatest
living writer on goodness and love'. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford
observed: 'If there has to be one best writer working in English
today it's Shirley Hazzard'.
'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently;
now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it' Sarah
Waters Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Hazzard lived around
the world: in Hong Kong; Wellington, New Zealand; New York; Naples
and Capri and her writing -- cosmopolitan, richly intelligent,
beautiful, questing -- reflects her life. Her body of work is small
but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable, from among others,
Michael Cunningham, Zoe Heller, Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, Lauren
Goff, Hermione Lee, Joan Didion, Richard Ford, Colm Toibin. At
sixteen, she was living in Hong Kong with her family and working
for the British Combined Services. She later worked, another desk
job, for the United Nations in New York and, briefly, in Naples.
Italy -- Capri and Naples -- claimed her heart and after she was
married -- she was introduced to the biographer, Francis
Steegmuller by Muriel Spark -- they divided their time between
Italy and America. Drawing on diaries, letters, interviews
alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction -- Brigitta Olubas,
herself Australian -- tells the story of a girl from the suburbs
'with a head full of poetry' who fell early under the spell of
words and sought out first books and then people who loved books as
her companions. In the process she transformed and indeed created
her life. She became a woman of the world who felt injustice
keenly, a deep and original thinker, who wrote some of the most
beautiful fiction about love and longing, always with an eye to the
ways we reveal ourselves to another. This, the definitive biography
uncovers the truths and myths and about Shirley Hazzard's life and
work, which come together at the point, as Brigitta Olubas
observes: 'where the writer lives'.
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase
Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics,
international relations, the history and fraught present of Western
literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add
essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning
fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings
work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and
the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal
experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and
the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the
decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and
affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and
direct human life, despite-or maybe because of-the world's
disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the
twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this
collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events
defining postwar letters, thought, and politics.
Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of
this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated
novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to
consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major
literary figure. The essays examine all of Harrower's published
fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication
of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide an wide
ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and
intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with
20th-century history and post-war society, with modernism and
modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology
and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and
philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in
late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points,
including the harbourside mansions and commercial centres of
post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle and the
bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s. Together the essays
offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of
modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage
with Harrower's work in a new light.
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