Gregory Day

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.

• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels — shortlisted
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels — winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds: A Novel — shortlisted
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2011: The Neighbour's Beans — winner
• Manly Artist Book Award, 2017: A Smile at Arm's Length — winner
• Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes, Tasmania Book Prize, 2017: Archipelago of Souls — shortlisted
• Nature Conservancy, Australia Nature Writing Prize, 2019: Summer On The Painkalac — shortlisted
• Miles Franklin Award, 2019: A Sand Archive — shortlisted[1]
• Patrick White Literary Award, 2020 — winner[2]

• The Ocean Last Night*
• One True Note: The Meaning of Sound in the Language of Place"
• Otway Taenarum"

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

• Tabucchi's Marmalade In The Hotel Doma on Crete"
• Through The Prism Of Ancient Practice"
• Betraying The Loch"
• On Michael Schmidt's The Novel"
• The Submerged Moon - Nora Webster by Colm Toibin"
• Arthur Streeton In Lorne"
• To Know Calvino"
• Walter Benjamin A Critical Life"
• On Chris Andrews and Roberto Bolano"
• Song Of The Magpie"
• A Duty To Jenny"
• Pathways Of Cezanne and Morandi"
• Hovering Around A Tiny Island Paradise"