Desmond O’Grady (1929–2021)

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Melbourne-born Desmond O’Grady published more than a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction in America and Australia and wrote seven plays for stage and radio. His work ranged from short stories to histories and was translated into several languages.

He wrote from Rome for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He also contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Washington PostNewsweek, the London Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He was also the Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter during the Vatican Council.

Articles

A new normal in Italy?

GR OnlineThere were forecasts that the collective experience of facing this plague would make people more aware of life’s essentials. Heeding the maxim ‘never waste a good crisis’, some have seen the pandemic as an opportunity to create a more just, equitable society.

At home in both places

MemoirI STILL CALL Australia home. But I have another home in Italy. Virtual bilocat­ion is my thing rather than geographic schizophrenia: I am at home in both places. Having insufficient money to move between them at will, I am...

Between two worlds

ReportageIT IS CHILLY in Florence when we get off the fast train up from Rome. The calories from the rushed breakfast, the café latte in the dining car as the sere landscape whizzed by, are fast wearing off as...

Taking on the Mafia

ReportageSOME YEARS AGO in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, I stumbled across the Antimafia. Out walking one night I noticed two Carabinieri cars parked outside the Antica Focacceria San Francesco restaurant and assumed there was a VIP inside. I went...

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