Murdoch University
The Krishna Somers Foundation has been established through the generous benefaction of Dr Krishna Somers, a Perth physician and cardiologist. The aim of the Foundation, which is located in the Division of Arts, is to foster research in the study of diasporas and related areas.
The Foundation begins 2007 with a book launch, in fact two for the price of one.
When: Tuesday March 6 4.30 PM
Where: Education and Humanities 2.21
Simone Lazaroo, The Travel Writer
To be launched byDr Julienne van Loon, novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Curtin University, and winner of The Australian /Vogel Literary Award in 2004.
Simone is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Murdoch University. She has written two previous award winning novels, The World Waiting to be Made and The Australian Fiance, which is currently being adapted for film. Her short stories have been anthologised in Australia, and by Bloomsbury in England. She was the David TK Wong Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia in England in 2001, where she wrote some of The Travel Writer. American academic and critic Professor Susan Strehle has called The Travel Writer ‘brilliantly original and creative. It draws in sure, deft ways on knowledge of narrative conventions and succeeds in making them new. I see Ms. Lazaroo’s work as potentially captivating for a worldwide audience—as catching the pulse of our time.’
Vijay Mishra, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
To be launched by Dr Krishna Somers, Benefactor of the Krishna Somers Foundation
Vijay Mishra is Professor of English Literature at Murdoch University. He holds doctorates from the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. Among his major publications are: Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind [with Bob Hodge] (Allen and Unwin, 1991), The Gothic Sublime (State University of New York Press, 1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (State University of New York Press, 1998), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (Routledge, 2002) and The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary ( Routledge, 2007). He has been Professor of English Literature at the University of Alberta and Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, at UC Santa Cruz, and the University of Otago. His articles have appeared in major journals such as New Literary History and Textual Practice. He has been the chair of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (2001-3) and of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2005-6). He is currently writing a book on Salman Rushdie on an Australia Research Council Large Grant.
