Gregory Day

Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician.

Gregory Day
BornMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupationwriter
Notable worksThe Patron Saint of Eels, The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road, Archipelago Of Souls
Notable awardsALS Gold Medal, Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Years active1990 —

Life

Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of southwest Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive, which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has also been much acclaimed for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the album The Black Tower, and his project The Flash Road, which narrates, in a sung and highly choreographic style, the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

Artist Book

Poetry

Music

Personal Essays on Writing Fiction

Interviews

  • "ABC Radio National Books and Arts" July 2015
  • "ABC Radio National Book Show" - 21 May 2008

Selected newspaper features and literary criticism

References

  1. Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. "Day wins Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
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