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Michael Wilding (writer)

Michael Wilding (born 1942) is a British-born writer and academic who has spent most of his career at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. He is known for his work as a novelist, literary scholar, critic, and editor. Since 2002 he has been Emeritus Professor in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

Gangan Verlag book launch at the Goethe-Institut Sydney (1991)

Early life and education edit

Michael Wilding was born in 1942 in Worcester, England, and read English at Oxford University, where he graduated in 1963 with BA with first-class honours.[1]

Academic career edit

Wilding took up an appointment as assistant lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1963, where he stayed for three years. He returned to England in 1967, where he attained his M.A., and took up a lectureship at the University of Birmingham.[1]

In 1969 he took up a post as senior lecturer at Sydney University, then becoming Reader in English from 1973 to 1992. He received the degree of D. Litt. from the University of Sydney in 1993. In 1993 he was appointed Professor of English and Australian Literature at Sydney, a position he held until his retirement in 2000, after which he was made professor emeritus.[1]

His scholarly work focused especially on 17th- and early 18th-century English literature (notably the poet John Milton), and he also garnered esteem as a literary critic and scholar of Australian literature (including works on Marcus Clarke, William Lane, Christina Stead).[1] His correspondence with Stead is in the National Library of Australia.[citation needed]

Writing career edit

He became known for his creative writing work in the late 1960s, when he was one of the leading lights of the "new writing" movement, whose members were influential in revitalising Australian literature.[1] His work was later described as "exciting and innovative" by Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian.[2]

He has published many novels and short story collections, and has had his stories published widely in anthologies.[1]

His most widely referenced work has been the short story magazine, Tabloid Story, which he co-founded with Frank Moorhouse and Carmel Kelly in 1972 and which ran for 33 issues, until 1974.[1]

For many years he was Australian editor of Stand, the UK quarterly edited by Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy, introducing the work of Robert Adamson, Peter Carey and Vicki Viidikas to the UK.[citation needed]

Publishing edit

Other activities edit

Wilding has been involved with the promotion of writers and writing, including as editor of short story collections, and as Chair of the New South Wales Writers' Centre.[1]

Recognition edit

In 2015 he received the Colin Roderick award and the Prime Minister's Literary award for non-fiction for his Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: a Documentary.[citation needed]

His papers and manuscripts are held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Central Independent Television UK made a documentary on his writing in 1987, Reading the Signs.[citation needed]

Critical assessments edit

A critical study of his work, Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience by Don Graham, was published in 2013.[5]

A festschrift in his honour, Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding, edited by David Brooks and Brian Kiernan, was published in 2004. It includes a number of essays on his fiction by Brian Kiernan, Laurie Hergenhan, Bruce Clunies Ross, Adrian Caesar and Robert Yeo.[citation needed]

Bibliography edit

Fiction edit

  • Aspects of the Dying Process, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1972
  • Living Together, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1974 (Serbo-Croatian translation by David Albahari, Decje Novine, Beograd, 1985)
  • The West Midland Underground, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1975
  • The Short Story Embassy, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1975
  • Scenic Drive, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1976
  • The Phallic Forest, Wild & Woolley, Sydney; John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1978
  • Noc Na Orgiji [Night at the Orgy], stories selected and translated by David Albahari, Kultura, Beograd, 1982
  • Pacific Highway, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982
  • Reading the Signs, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984
  • The Man of Slow Feeling: Selected Short Stories, Penguin, Melbourne, 1986
  • Under Saturn, Black Swan, Sydney, 1988
  • Great Climate, Faber & Faber, London, 1990
  • Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience, W. W. Norton, New York, 1991
  • This is for You, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1994
  • Book of the Reading, Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 1994
  • Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton; McBride's Books, Colwall, UK, 1996 (Punjabi translation by Tejpal Singh, Kition Nawan, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2001)
  • Wildest Dreams, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1998
  • A Whisper from the Forest, selected stories in Japanese translation by Sokushin Ezawa, Seizansha, Tokyo, 1999
  • Academia Nuts, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 2002, 2nd edition 2003
  • Wild Amazement, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton; Shoestring Press, Nottingham, UK, 2006 (Italian translation by Aldo Magagnino, Con Folle Stupore, Edizioni Controluce, 2008)
  • National Treasure, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2007
  • Superfluous Men, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2009
  • The Prisoner of Mount Warning, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2010
  • The Magic Of It, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2011
  • Asian Dawn, Press On / Arcadia, Melbourne, 2013
  • In the Valley of the Weed, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2017
  • Little Demon, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2018
  • The Travel Writer, Arcadia, Melbourne, 2018
  • The Midlands, and Leaving Them, Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2021
  • Find Me My Enemies and Cover Story, Arcadia. Melbourne, 2022

Documentaries

  • The Paraguayan Experiment, Penguin, Melbourne & Harmondsworth, 1985 (Bengali translation by Geeta Sen, Papyrus, Calcutta, 1995; Japanese translation by Sokushin Ezawa, Asahi Shimbun Publications, Tokyo, 2016)
  • Raising Spirits, Making Gold, and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, Shoestring Press, Nottingham, UK; Abbott Bentley, Sydney, 1999
  • Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: A Documentary, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2014

Non-fiction edit

  • Milton's Paradise Lost, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1969
  • Cultural Policy in Great Britain (with Michael Green), Unesco, Paris, 1970
  • Marcus Clarke, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1977
  • Political Fictions, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980; Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984
  • Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987
  • The Radical Tradition: Lawson, Furphy, Stead, Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Townsville, 1993
  • Social Visions, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney, 1993
  • Studies in Classic Australian Fiction, Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney; Shoestring Press, Nottingham U. K., 1997
  • Among Leavisites, privately printed, Sydney, 1999
  • Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir, Giramondo, Sydney, 2011
  • Growing Wild (recollections), Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2016
  • Wild About Books: Essays on Books and Writing, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2019
  • Marcus Clarke: Novelist, Journalist and Bohemian, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2021[6]

Edited edit

  • Three Tales by Henry James, Hicks Smith, Sydney, 1967
  • Australians Abroad (with Charles Higham), F.W.Cheshire, Melbourne, 1967
  • Marvell: Modern Judgements, Macmillan, London, 1969; Aurora, Nashville, 1970
  • Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus by John Sheffield, Cornmarket, London, 1970
  • We Took Their Orders And Are Dead (with David Malouf, Shirley Cass and Ros Cheney), Ure Smith, Sydney, 1971
  • Marcus Clarke, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1976; 2nd edition, 1988
  • The Radical Reader (with Stephen Knight), Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1977
  • The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978
  • The Workingman's Paradise by William Lane, Sydney University Press, 1980; 2nd edition, 2004
  • Stories by Marcus Clarke, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1983
  • Air Mail from Down Under, (Australian Short Stories in German translation) (with Rudi Krausmann), Gangaroo, 1990
  • The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Oxford and New York, 1994, paperback, 1995
  • History, Literature and Society: essays in honour of Soumyen Mukherjee, (with Mabel Lee), Sydney Studies in Society & Culture, Sydney; Manohar, New Delhi, 1997
  • Best Stories Under the Sun, (with David Myers), Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2004
  • Best Stories Under the Sun: 2: Travellers' Tales, (with David Myers), Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2005
  • Confessions and Memoirs: Best Stories Under the Sun 3, (with David Myers), Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2006
  • Cyril Hopkins' Marcus Clarke (with Laurie Hergenhan and Ken Stewart), Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2009
  • Heart Matters (with Peter Corris), Viking, Melbourne, 2010[7]
  • Price Iz Bezvremene Zemlje. Antologija savremene australikjske proze (with Natasa Kampmark), Agora, Novi Sad, 2012

Articles edit

  • "A Random House: The Parlous State of Australian Publishing", Meanjin, Autumn 1975
  • "The Great Purge of our Libraries", Quadrant, 1 July 2011.
  • "Libraries under threat", Sydney Review of Books, 7 March 2014.
  • "University libraries should preserve their printed books", The Australian, 24 August 2017.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Michael Wilding". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  2. ^ Ross Fitzgerald, "Michael Wilding looks back with infectious amusement", The Australian, 9 April 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2017. (Subscribers only.)
  3. ^ a b "Michael Wilding". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  4. ^ Mihardja, Achdiat K. (2 November 2018). "Asian and Pacific Writing (University of Queensland Press) - Book Series List". Publishing History. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  5. ^ Graham, Don (2013), Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience: Stories, Novels, and Memoirs, 1963-2012, Teneo Press, ISBN 978-1-934844-95-3
  6. ^ "Marcus Clarke: Novelist, Journalist and Bohemian". Australian Scholarly Publishing. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  7. ^ Bibliography posted by the author from his website.

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Michael Wilding born 1942 is a British born writer and academic who has spent most of his career at the University of Sydney in Sydney Australia He is known for his work as a novelist literary scholar critic and editor Since 2002 he has been Emeritus Professor in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney Gangan Verlag book launch at the Goethe Institut Sydney 1991 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Academic career 3 Writing career 4 Publishing 5 Other activities 6 Recognition 6 1 Critical assessments 7 Bibliography 7 1 Fiction 7 2 Non fiction 7 3 Edited 7 4 Articles 8 ReferencesEarly life and education editMichael Wilding was born in 1942 in Worcester England and read English at Oxford University where he graduated in 1963 with BA with first class honours 1 Academic career editWilding took up an appointment as assistant lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1963 where he stayed for three years He returned to England in 1967 where he attained his M A and took up a lectureship at the University of Birmingham 1 In 1969 he took up a post as senior lecturer at Sydney University then becoming Reader in English from 1973 to 1992 He received the degree of D Litt from the University of Sydney in 1993 In 1993 he was appointed Professor of English and Australian Literature at Sydney a position he held until his retirement in 2000 after which he was made professor emeritus 1 His scholarly work focused especially on 17th and early 18th century English literature notably the poet John Milton and he also garnered esteem as a literary critic and scholar of Australian literature including works on Marcus Clarke William Lane Christina Stead 1 His correspondence with Stead is in the National Library of Australia citation needed Writing career editHe became known for his creative writing work in the late 1960s when he was one of the leading lights of the new writing movement whose members were influential in revitalising Australian literature 1 His work was later described as exciting and innovative by Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian 2 He has published many novels and short story collections and has had his stories published widely in anthologies 1 His most widely referenced work has been the short story magazine Tabloid Story which he co founded with Frank Moorhouse and Carmel Kelly in 1972 and which ran for 33 issues until 1974 1 For many years he was Australian editor of Stand the UK quarterly edited by Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy introducing the work of Robert Adamson Peter Carey and Vicki Viidikas to the UK citation needed Publishing editWilding was a founding editor of the University of Queensland Press s Asian amp Pacific Writing series 3 which ran from 1972 to 1982 4 He was a co founder of the publishers Wild amp Woolley with Pat Woolley 3 In 1986 he co founded Paper Bark Press with the poet Robert AdamsonOther activities editWilding has been involved with the promotion of writers and writing including as editor of short story collections and as Chair of the New South Wales Writers Centre 1 Recognition editIn 2015 he received the Colin Roderick award and the Prime Minister s Literary award for non fiction for his Wild Bleak Bohemia Marcus Clarke Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall a Documentary citation needed His papers and manuscripts are held in the Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales Central Independent Television UK made a documentary on his writing in 1987 Reading the Signs citation needed Critical assessments edit A critical study of his work Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience by Don Graham was published in 2013 5 A festschrift in his honour Running Wild Essays Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding edited by David Brooks and Brian Kiernan was published in 2004 It includes a number of essays on his fiction by Brian Kiernan Laurie Hergenhan Bruce Clunies Ross Adrian Caesar and Robert Yeo citation needed Bibliography editFiction edit Aspects of the Dying Process University of Queensland Press St Lucia 1972 Living Together University of Queensland Press St Lucia 1974 Serbo Croatian translation by David Albahari Decje Novine Beograd 1985 The West Midland Underground University of Queensland Press St Lucia 1975 The Short Story Embassy Wild amp Woolley Sydney 1975 Scenic Drive Wild amp Woolley Sydney 1976 The Phallic Forest Wild amp Woolley Sydney John McIndoe Dunedin 1978 Noc Na Orgiji Night at the Orgy stories selected and translated by David Albahari Kultura Beograd 1982 Pacific Highway Hale amp Iremonger Sydney 1982 Reading the Signs Hale amp Iremonger Sydney 1984 The Man of Slow Feeling Selected Short Stories Penguin Melbourne 1986 Under Saturn Black Swan Sydney 1988 Great Climate Faber amp Faber London 1990 Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience W W Norton New York 1991 This is for You Angus amp Robertson Sydney 1994 Book of the Reading Paper Bark Press Sydney 1994 Somewhere New New amp Selected Stories Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton McBride s Books Colwall UK 1996 Punjabi translation by Tejpal Singh Kition Nawan Sahitya Akademi New Delhi 2001 Wildest Dreams University of Queensland Press St Lucia 1998 A Whisper from the Forest selected stories in Japanese translation by Sokushin Ezawa Seizansha Tokyo 1999 Academia Nuts Wild amp Woolley Sydney 2002 2nd edition 2003 Wild Amazement Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton Shoestring Press Nottingham UK 2006 Italian translation by Aldo Magagnino Con Folle Stupore Edizioni Controluce 2008 National Treasure Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton 2007 Superfluous Men Arcadia Melbourne 2009 The Prisoner of Mount Warning Press On Arcadia Melbourne 2010 The Magic Of It Press On Arcadia Melbourne 2011 Asian Dawn Press On Arcadia Melbourne 2013 In the Valley of the Weed Arcadia Melbourne 2017 Little Demon Arcadia Melbourne 2018 The Travel Writer Arcadia Melbourne 2018 The Midlands and Leaving Them Shoestring Press Nottingham 2021 Find Me My Enemies and Cover Story Arcadia Melbourne 2022Documentaries The Paraguayan Experiment Penguin Melbourne amp Harmondsworth 1985 Bengali translation by Geeta Sen Papyrus Calcutta 1995 Japanese translation by Sokushin Ezawa Asahi Shimbun Publications Tokyo 2016 Raising Spirits Making Gold and Swapping Wives The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly Shoestring Press Nottingham UK Abbott Bentley Sydney 1999 Wild Bleak Bohemia Marcus Clarke Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall A Documentary Australian Scholarly Publishing Melbourne 2014Non fiction edit Milton s Paradise Lost Sydney University Press Sydney 1969 Cultural Policy in Great Britain with Michael Green Unesco Paris 1970 Marcus Clarke Oxford University Press Melbourne 1977 Political Fictions Routledge amp Kegan Paul London 1980 Hale amp Iremonger Sydney 1984 Dragons Teeth Literature in the English Revolution Clarendon Press Oxford 1987 The Radical Tradition Lawson Furphy Stead Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Townsville 1993 Social Visions Sydney Studies in Society amp Culture Sydney 1993 Studies in Classic Australian Fiction Sydney Studies in Society amp Culture Sydney Shoestring Press Nottingham U K 1997 Among Leavisites privately printed Sydney 1999 Wild amp Woolley A Publishing Memoir Giramondo Sydney 2011 Growing Wild recollections Australian Scholarly Publishing Melbourne 2016 Wild About Books Essays on Books and Writing Australian Scholarly Publishing Melbourne 2019 Marcus Clarke Novelist Journalist and Bohemian Australian Scholarly Publishing Melbourne 2021 6 Edited edit Three Tales by Henry James Hicks Smith Sydney 1967 Australians Abroad with Charles Higham F W Cheshire Melbourne 1967 Marvell Modern Judgements Macmillan London 1969 Aurora Nashville 1970 Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus by John Sheffield Cornmarket London 1970 We Took Their Orders And Are Dead with David Malouf Shirley Cass and Ros Cheney Ure Smith Sydney 1971 Marcus Clarke University of Queensland Press St Lucia 1976 2nd edition 1988 The Radical Reader with Stephen Knight Wild amp Woolley Sydney 1977 The Tabloid Story Pocket Book Wild amp Woolley Sydney 1978 The Workingman s Paradise by William Lane Sydney University Press 1980 2nd edition 2004 Stories by Marcus Clarke Hale amp Iremonger Sydney 1983 Air Mail from Down Under Australian Short Stories in German translation with Rudi Krausmann Gangaroo 1990 The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories Oxford University Press Melbourne Oxford and New York 1994 paperback 1995 History Literature and Society essays in honour of Soumyen Mukherjee with Mabel Lee Sydney Studies in Society amp Culture Sydney Manohar New Delhi 1997 Best Stories Under the Sun with David Myers Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton 2004 Best Stories Under the Sun 2 Travellers Tales with David Myers Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton 2005 Confessions and Memoirs Best Stories Under the Sun 3 with David Myers Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton 2006 Cyril Hopkins Marcus Clarke with Laurie Hergenhan and Ken Stewart Australian Scholarly Publishing Melbourne 2009 Heart Matters with Peter Corris Viking Melbourne 2010 7 Price Iz Bezvremene Zemlje Antologija savremene australikjske proze with Natasa Kampmark Agora Novi Sad 2012Articles edit A Random House The Parlous State of Australian Publishing Meanjin Autumn 1975 The Great Purge of our Libraries Quadrant 1 July 2011 Libraries under threat Sydney Review of Books 7 March 2014 University libraries should preserve their printed books The Australian 24 August 2017 References edit a b c d e f g h Michael Wilding AustLit Discover Australian Stories 27 November 2019 Retrieved 18 February 2021 Ross Fitzgerald Michael Wilding looks back with infectious amusement The Australian 9 April 2016 Retrieved 25 August 2017 Subscribers only a b Michael Wilding Giramondo Publishing Retrieved 4 October 2022 Mihardja Achdiat K 2 November 2018 Asian and Pacific Writing University of Queensland Press Book Series List Publishing History Retrieved 4 October 2022 Graham Don 2013 Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience Stories Novels and Memoirs 1963 2012 Teneo Press ISBN 978 1 934844 95 3 Marcus Clarke Novelist Journalist and Bohemian Australian Scholarly Publishing 16 November 2022 Retrieved 11 February 2023 Bibliography posted by the author from his website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Wilding writer amp oldid 1216822971, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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