Michael Wilding

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Michael Wilding was born in 1942, and is Emeritus Professor in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

His novels include Living Together (UQP 1974), The Short Story Embassy, Scenic Drive, Pacific Highway, The Paraguayan Experiment and Wildest Dreams (UQP 1998).

His stories have appeared internationally within a range of publications and have contributed to a number of collections, including Aspects of the Dying Process (UQP 1972), The West Midland Underground (UQP 1974) and The Gift of Story (UQP 1998).

Michael Wilding is an important critic and scholar of Australian literature. He has written numerous critical studies, and edited Marcus Clarke (UQP 1976), The Tabloid Story Pocket Book (1978) and The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories (1994).

Articles

“Don’t I know you?”

MemoirI AM OF course no stranger to celebrity. "Famous name," the lady at the library greets me when I produce my borrower's card. I nod, graciously.Yes, a famous name, but for someone else. It could be my collected works...

Neglecting the body

Memoir"TAKE UP GOLF," they said. Both of them within the space of a week. The acupuncturist and the alternative healer. It was not the advice I had expected. Not from them. They were both rather spiritual people. I would...

Growing things

MemoirAS SOON AS I achieved my escape from the groves of academia nuts, I moved to the land of macadamia nuts. The dream of every Anglophone man of letters is to become a man of the land. Shades of...

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