Walter McRae Russell shortlist announced

Walter McRae Russell shortlist announced

Warmest congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2021 Walter McRae Russell Award for the best work of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published 2019-2020:


Joseph Cummins, The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music (Anthem, 2019)

Tanya Dalziell, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics (Sydney UP, 2020)

Susan Lever, Creating Australian Television Drama: A Screenwriting History (ASP, 2020)

Brigid Magner, Locating Australian Literary Memory (Anthem, 2019)

Brendan McNamee, Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane (Peter Lang, 2019)

Fiona Morrison, Christina Stead and the Matter of America (Sydney UP, 2019)

Paul Sharrad, Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine (Anthem, 2019)