Gay Lynch

Broschiertes Buch

Hebe's Lament and Other Stories

Beschreibung

Hebe's Lament and Other Stories is set in Budapest and Cabourg, Melbourne and Shanghai, and rural Ireland and South Australia.

Autor

Gay Lynch writes essays, novels, hybrid memoir pieces, academic papers, book reviews and short stories on unceded Bunurong land, part of the Kulin nation. An independent researcher in creative writing and English, she works adjunct to Flinders University. Deep engagement with place, history and marginalised voices drives her writing.Essays and stories by Lynch appear in anthologies such as Best Australian Stories and Growing Up in Country Australia, and in Australia's finest literary journals, for instance, Meanjin and Griffith Review. FISH Publishing Ireland has longlisted Lynch's fiction and memoir pieces four times. Hebe's Lament and Other Stories is her first story collection. The lead and title story won the 2024 American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Prize for Creative Prose. Lynch judged this prize in 2025.Other publications include Harm None (2025), a YA novel originally shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. In 2019 she published Unsettled, a settler novel mentored by Irish literary writer Niall Williams. Her first adult novel, Cleanskin (2005), benefitted from a South Australian Writers Centre prize mentorship with Eva Hornung (then Sallis).In 2023, Lynch chaired and presented sessions for the Australian Short Story Festival and the International Conference on Short Story in English, and Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators commissioned 'In-Train', which she read at the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival launch of Pratik Magazine's Australian issue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hembury Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781764005791
• ISBN-10: 1764005791
• Artikelnr.: 74318436