Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane was an Australian novelist and writer (born 1939). He was born at Melbourne.

Overview

Born at Melbourne in 1939.

Recognition and collections

Gerald Murnane received Patrick White Award, Melbourne Prize for Literature, Prime Minister's Literary Awards and Officer of the Order of Australia.

Catalogued works

19 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Inland. Border Districts. The Plains. Tamarisk Row. Plains. Lifetime on Clouds. Selected Poems. Les planes. Tamarisk Row (16pt Large Print Edition). History of Books. Grenzbezirke. Landscape with Landscape. Million Windows. Barley Patch. Last Letter to a Reader. Las llanuras. Season on Earth. Something for the Pain.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Gerald Murnane:, Gerald Murnane, 2020. Gerald Murnane, 2020. Gerald Murnane’s Plain Style, Gerald Murnane, 2020. Not Today, Old Man, eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2019. Última carta a un lector, de Gerald Murnane (2023), Adalber Salas Hernández (Trad.), Gris Tormenta, 184 p., Co-herencia: Revista de Humanidades, 2024. Behind the Appearances: Spaces and Places in Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982), Crossroads, 2025.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

the recorded working language is English.

Distinctions recorded are Patrick White Award, Melbourne Prize for Literature, Prime Minister's Literary Awards and Officer of the Order of Australia.

Chronology

  1. 1939Gerald Murnane born at Melbourne.
  2. 2003The Plains digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  • scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Gerald Murnane, 2020

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  • scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Gerald Murnane:, Gerald Murnane, 2020

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  • scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Gerald Murnane’s Plain Style, Gerald Murnane, 2020

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  • Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

    Open Library author record for Gerald Murnane (Internet Archive), 21 catalogued works.

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  • open access index · Unverified

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 4 articles naming Gerald Murnane.

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  • digital repository · Unverified

    Internet Archive, 1 digitised item catalogued under Gerald Murnane as creator.

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q710823: Gerald Murnane

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Gerald Murnane”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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