Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:13:37 -0500
From: prenattd-AT-tuvok.marian.edu (Diane Prenatt)
Subject: Re: Australian literature


>The canonical question is kind of up for grabs in Australia at the
>moment, it seems to me (Ispeak as an expat. starved for news), on account
>of two apparently fraudulent novels which have one major literary prizes
>in Australia in the last few years. The first was a sympathetic
>portrayal of Croatian Nazis by one 'Helen Demidenko' who turned out to be
>a Queensland undergrad. with no Croatian family and a talent for
>plagiarism; the second I know very little about but was just a month or
>so ago in Western Australia-a man who received the prize on behgalf of
>its female Aboriginal author, but turned out to be the author himself.
>This continues a mini-tradition of bizarre pseudonymy in Australian
>letters. Are there countrymen/women of mine out there who can fill us in
>more?
>
>Andrew Irvine
>Boston
>
>
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Andrew--

I'm not a countrywoman and this isn't literature, but I just read an
article, I think in Newsweek, about a woman who's been selling her own art
as aboriginal stuff -- and the controversy that's followed that revelation.

Diane Prenatt
Marian College
Indianapolis




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