Gangaroo is the Australian imprint of Austrian publisher Gangan Verlag.
Gangaroo is the Australian imprint of Austrian publisher Gangan Verlag.
In 1989 Gerald Ganglbauer, a young Austrian publisher, arrived in Australia and started collecting Australian short stories, experimental prose, and poetry. Back then Australian literature was largely unknown in German speaking countries, and he had the ambition to change that with Gangaroo (a coinage of the words Ganglbauer and kangaroo), the imprint of now Sydney based small press Gangan Books Austr(al)ia. Together with Bernard Cohen, Rudi Krausmann and Michael Wilding, he created The OZlit Collection in three volumes: Vol. 1: Air Mail from Down Under (Short Stories, translated into German), Vol. 2: Malevolent Fiction, was not published in print, but online (in parts) [1] and Vol. 3: Made in Australia (Poetry, bilingual English/German). [2]
However, in spite of having received good reviews in Germany as well as in Australia, sales were slow, and not even a grant from the Australia Council could help the publisher to break even, which put an end to The OZlit Collection in print. As a consequence, new titles were published online since 1996, and the name changed to Gangan Publishing. [3]
The short stories in Air Mail from Down Under by Glenda Adams, Inez Baranay, David Brooks, Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, Kris Hemensley, Nick Jose, Rudi Krausmann, David Malouf, Frank Moorhouse, Gerald Murnane, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Janette Turner Hospital, Vicki Viidikas, Patrick White, Michael Wilding, and Renate Yates were translated into the German language by Marc Adrian, Bettina Boss, Gerald Ganglbauer, Bernd und Barbara Hüppauf, Rudi Krausmann, Olaf Reinhardt, and Nic Witton. [4]
When Gerald Ganglbauer and Michael Wilding launched the first volume in Vienna, an Austrian newspaper titled their review "More than kangaroos and koalas", and wrote: Gangan Verlag proves with this important new release that Australia's cultural output consists of more than "Crocodile" Dundee and The Thorn Birds. The Falter agreed: As far as literature is concerned, Australia is a largely unknown continent even for an Anglophile. [5]
With Malevolent Fiction the gap between Volume 1 and 3 is finally closed. Contributions (Jas H Duke, Paul Hewson / Linda Marie Walker, Ruark Lewis, Chris Mann and Ania Walwicz) have appeared online in the publisher's literary magazine Gangway in 1996.
Made in Australia is a bilingual English-German edition of selected work by eighty contemporary Australian poets. This literary crowd, and its host of German apparitions, is squeezed into a mere three hundred pages, as a kind of export package. Each poet’s name is actually stamped with the familiar, triangular “Australian Made” trade logo. Poetry as merchandise. Please consider. [6]
The arrangement of the poets Made in Australia is by date of birth, beginning with Margaret Diesendorf, who was born in 1912 and died two years ago, and leading up to poets born in 1960. Obviously, preference and available space determined inclusions and omissions, but few readers will dispute that it is a well-balanced, carefully selected anthology. The inclusion, as the last poem, of Maureen Watson’s “Stepping Out” with its final “I don’t walk, I strut/ ‘Cause now, I’m liberated” provides a very moving ending. There are no dates alongside her name (Unknown, as sometimes the case with Aboriginals having no birth certificates). [7]
Around 140 selected poems from Australian poets such as Robert Adamson, Richard Allen, Bruce Beaver to Banumbir Wongar, Judith Wright, and Fay Zwicky, to name but a few from A to Z were translated into the German language by C. W. Aigner, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Gerhard Fischer, Gerald Ganglbauer, Rudi Krausmann, Michael C. Prusse, Olaf Reinhardt, Isolde Scheidecker, Gisela Triesch, and Volker Wolf.
Evelyn Lau is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Michael Wilding 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.
This article presents lists of historical events related to the writing of poetry during 2004. The historical context of events related to the writing of poetry in 2004 are addressed in articles such as History of Poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Wild & Woolley was an Australian small book publisher founded by Pat Woolley and Michael Wilding in 1973.
Antigone Kefala was an Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and is acknowledged as being an important voice in capturing the migrant experience in contemporary Australia. In 2017, Kefala was awarded the State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection Judith Wright Calanthe Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for her collection of poems entitled Fragments.
Richard Hillman is an Australian poet.
Philip Roby Hammial is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. His achievements include thirty-eight collections of poetry, thirty-four solo sculpture exhibitions, and, acting as the director/curator of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art, twenty-six exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art in five countries.
Gangway was an international online literary magazine, bridging Austria and Australia. Its founder and editor in chief is Gerald Ganglbauer, the first issue was launched in June 1996 in Sydney. It appears not to have published since 2016.
Gerald Ganglbauer is an Austrian–Australian writer and publisher diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 48 years. Since then he has been an ambassador for Parkinson's support groups.
Rudi Krausmann was an Austrian born Australian playwright and poet.
Tatjana Lukić was a Croatian born Australian poetry editor and poet.
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.
