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Who's the best writer this backward convict shithole has produced?

>> No.22257193
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>>22257184
This right here is THE Great Australian novel and, predictably, almost nobody has ever read it.

>> No.22257217

>>22257184
David Malouf is good

>> No.22257264

>>22257184
Paul Jennings

>> No.22257408

>>22257184
Me

>> No.22257420

What would they even write about? Sex with a kangaroo on the beach? C'mon.

>> No.22257427

Flabba Babba Wabba Jabba Noongah

>> No.22257442

>>22257420
A threesome with a kangaroo and an Abo on the beach while a Koala looks disappointingly and wishing for a spider to sting them all.

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>>22257184
D. H. Lawrence (Holiday)

>> No.22257708

No mention of Murnane? Tsk tsk tsk

>> No.22257721

>>22257184
Murnane, White and Lawson are Australia's best novelists and short story writers.

>> No.22257788

>>22257184
nick cave

>> No.22257837

>>22257184
It's HDI is the 6th highest in the world.

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>>22257184
Ahem...

>> No.22258808

>>22257184
Wrong medium, but Michael Cusack
[bushworld_adventures.gif]

>> No.22258810

>>22257420
The wilderness? A compelling epic of convicts creating civilisation, perhaps with a theme of redemption?

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>>22257184
Mark Read AKA Chopper

>> No.22258940

>>22257184
Patrick White or Thomas Bernhard

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>>22257184
GEORGE MILLER

>> No.22260102

>>22258940
Retard

>> No.22260104

>>22258940
>Thomas Bernhard
I don't think you read other than /lit/ and you don't even do that well.

>> No.22260131

For blue-eyedness, Banjo Paterson. He distills the heroic moment at least as well as Conrad.

>> No.22260137

>>22257184
You can't go wrong with Freud and Arthur Schnitzler. Musil is good too but not for everyone/

>> No.22260176

>>22260137
Imbecile

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>>22257184
whoever wrote truckdogs

>> No.22260736

>>22257193
>woman

>> No.22261193

Robert Hughes

>> No.22261267

>>22260701
>Graeme Based

>> No.22261277

Tree of Life

>> No.22261486

>>22258810
get out of here chatGPT

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>>22257184
ahem.

>> No.22262171

>>22261267
straight up

>> No.22262349

Greg Egan is the only aussie but I read he's alright. I'll start reading another book of his next week.

>> No.22262352

>>22262349
I think I had a stroke midway through that sentence

>> No.22262374

>>22261527
Do you think it would have been allowed on shelves if it was a picture of woman ass?