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I've realised I've never read anything /lit/ from my country is there anything worthwhile or nah?

>> No.15668829
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>>15668752
i have the same problem. there isn't much besides century old poetry, kiwi cobber

>> No.15668837

>>15668752
If even you, a national, know nothing, then I don't think there's really anything.

>> No.15668856

Katherine Mansfield.

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you wanna say that to my fucking face, punk?

>> No.15668977

>>15668752
I am also a kiwi and yes there isn't much, I mostly read american and british stuff.

>> No.15668980

anyone Wellington wanna go halves on smokes

>> No.15669007

>>15668752
Our country’s too young and still chained to UK/US culture. It took the US and Russia a few hundred years to get their own scenes and even now seething Eurofags claim that they’re still too derivative of Western Europe.

>> No.15669038

I can't think of many popular Australian books. I remember reading one about ANZACs but that's it.

>> No.15669085

>>15668968
How could I forget Hairy Maclary

>> No.15669099

>>15669007
Could it also be how we are isolated? I think Ireland is a country that is quite comparable to NZ in terms of size of pop and all, but they have the benefit of being in close proximity to Britain unlike us.

>> No.15669101

>>15669038
There are plenty of famous Australian writers...

Patrick White, Christina Stead etc.

>> No.15669104

>>15669099
ireland has had civilisation on it for over a thousand years and many struggles that foster literature

>> No.15669129

>>15669104
Hmm oh yeah I forget about that, yeah most of our cultural identity is pretty much from UK, not sure if we ever will be to move past that, not in our lifetime I suppose.

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>>15669129
it will happen soon enough anon, british 'identity' is held by less and less % of the population each year that goes by

>> No.15669166

>>15669156
>finally throw off the yoke of the imperial Angle
>let Brussels flood your country with foreigners
for what purpose

>> No.15669190

>>15669166
The destruction of a christian culture.

>> No.15669211

>>15669166
australians are the biggest coomsoomers in the world. eroding what little culture and identity there is and flooding the country with migrants for a ponzie scheme economy is incredible beneficial to the wealthy and powerful. we're already dead, we just haven't caught up yet

>> No.15669218

>>15669190
>>15669211
I thought the person I responded to was talking about Ireland, my bad.

>> No.15669227

>>15669129
Yes, shake off the british identity and adopt your new overlords, the chinese

>> No.15669228

>>15669218
what's happening to both countries is similar, i am just shocked at how the irish aren't learning their own language

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>>15669227
yes master

>> No.15669276

>>15668980
I don’t smoke, bitch

>> No.15669298

>>15668752
>I've realised I've never read anything
Wow, this is peak pseud shit

>> No.15669318

>>15669129
It doesn't really matter. We're still distinct from the UK

>> No.15669792

>>15668856
NZ should be proud of Katherine Mansfield. Anyone who claims to give a shit about Modernism has to read her.