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Gregory Day | |
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Born | Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation | writer |
Years active | 1990 — |
Notable works | The Patron Saint of Eels , The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road , Archipelago Of Souls , A Sand Archive , The Bell Of The World |
Notable awards | Patrick White Award, ALS Gold Medal, Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize, Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize |
Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician.
Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive, which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has been much acclaimed for his place-based nature essays, and also for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the album The Black Tower, and his project The Flash Road, which narrates in song the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War. Day is also the co-founder with artist and book designer, Sian Marlow, of the fine press limited edition literature and music publisher, Merrijig Word & Sound Co.
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