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| Author | David Malouf |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 160 pp |
| ISBN | 0701128518 |
| Preceded by | Harland's Half Acre |
| Followed by | Untold Tales |
Antipodes (1985) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer David Malouf. It was published by Chatto and Windus in 1985. [1]
The collection includes 13 stories by the author from a variety of literary magazines. [1]
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Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Marion Halligan noted: "Most of the stories involve European-Australian confrontations, in their countries or ours. But these don't have the relatively simple complexities of Henry James, where the dichotomies of good and bad, positive and negative, vitality and corruption, in old and new societies, are clear enough. Here they are variable and muddled...Malouf is already admired as apoet and novelist. Readers of literary magazines (that is, almost nobody but would-be publishees of those magazines) will have read some of these stories before. It's good to have them collected together." [2]
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The collection was also translated into Swedish in 1988, and German in 1999. [1]
The collection won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in 1985. [6]
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