Today the great Australian writer Gerald Murnane was awarded an AO for services to literature and teaching. Gerald has been in the first 2 lines of betting for the Nobel Prize for Literature for what seems an extraordinary run. He is revered internationally by his peers, and his otherworldly writing has been profiled in The New York Times and New Yorker to name a few. His books are translated in many countries and his work, The Plains, is regarded as the greatest work of fiction ever written. And is also a favourite book of Pope Leo.
A Great Australian Honored