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Gerald Murnane
| Full Name: |
Gerald
Murmane |
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February 25, 1939
Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: |
Teacher, Writer |
| Nationality: |
Australian |
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Biography
Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Perhaps best known for his 1982 novel The Plains, he has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, identity, and the Australian landscape, often blurring fiction and autobiography in the process. The New York Times described Murnane in 2018 as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of", and he is regularly tipped to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Murnane was born in Coburg, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. He is one of four children. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District. In 1956 he graduated from De La Salle College, Malvern.
Murnane briefly trained for the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1957. He abandoned this path, however, instead becoming a teacher in primary schools (from 1960 to 1968), and at the Victoria Racing Club's Apprentice Jockeys' School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1969, then worked in the Victorian Education Department until 1973. From 1980 he began to teach creative writing at various tertiary institutions.
Murnane married in 1966 and has three sons. In 1969 the family moved to the Melbourne suburb of Macleod.
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