City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Geordie Williamson gathers the Best Australian Essays in his role as editor for a second year. Expect an enthralling mix of evocation and ideas, politics and culture. ‘Wonky, idiosyncratic, fragmentary, paradoxical, drunk on words, the essay has … a uniquely human thumbprint.’ —Geordie Williamson Geordie Williamson is the former chief literary critic of the Australian and the publisher of Pan Macmillan’s Picador imprint. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism Australia’s only major national prize awarded for critical writing. He published The Burning Library, a collection of essays on neglected Australian writers, in 2012.

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The Best Australian Essays 2016