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Inspired by the Diversity Bingo game card… but diverging from it because I don’t like to label authors by their skin colour or their disability…

I don’t read to anybody’s agenda, but there is interest in promoting diversity in reading choices and so on this page, I’m going to note the multicultural heritage of the Australian writers that I’ve read and reviewed here on this blog.  I’m using the word ‘heritage’ loosely: it can mean that the author was born in Australia of immigrant parents, or it can mean that they migrated here or came as refugees.  However I’m not going to trace beyond first generations to, for example, Irish forebears who came to Australia in colonial times.

There is obviously potential to get this wrong, and multicultural heritage isn’t always obvious or straightforward.  I welcome corrections if I’ve made mistakes, but I am deliberately confining myself to information that is already in the public domain.

NB Indigenous authors are indexed on the ANZ LitLovers Indigenous Reading List.

Until I finish adding all the links to my reviews, please use the search box or the Writers category to find them.

Algeria

Dominique Wilson:

• The Yellow Papers, and
• That Devil’s Madness

Anglo-Bangladeshi

Lesley Jørgensen:

• Cat and Fiddle

Austria

John Tesarch

• The Philanthropist

Britain

Martin Boyd (born in Switzerland, educated in Australia, but identified as Anglo-Australian and spent most of his line in England)

• When Blackbirds Sing

Ada Cambridge (England):

• Thirty Years in Australia, (1903)

Ernest Favenc

• Tales of the Austral Tropics (1893)

Anna Fienberg

• Escape

Rodney Hall (England)

• Popeye Never Told You
• The Second Bridegroom

Elizabeth Jolley (England):

• Miss Peabody’s Inheritance

Alex Miller (England):

• Coal Creek;
• Autumn Laing
• Lovesong:
• Prochownik’s Dream;
• Landscape of Farewell

Drusilla Modjeska:

• The Mountain,
• Second Half First

Catherine Helen Spence (Scotland)

• Mr Hogarth’s Will

Patrick White (England):

• Riders in the Chariot;
• Happy Valley;
• The Eye of the Storm
• The Twyborn Affair
• Voss
• The Solid Mandala

China

Ouyang Yu:

• Loose,
• The English Class
• Billy Sing

Croatia/Germany

Marija Peričić

• The Lost Pages

Cuba

Olga Lorenzo:

• The Light on the Water

Egypt

Maher Abou Elsaoud:

• Cairo Paris Melbourne

Germany

Evelyn Juers:

• The Recluse,

Manfred Jurgensen:

• The Other Wife

T.G.H. Strehlow

• Journey to Horseshoe Bend

Glenice Whitting

• Pickle to Pie

Greece

Christos Tsiolkas

• The Slap

Hongkong:

Brian Castro (of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage):

• Drift,
• The Bath Fugues
• Street to Street
• Blindness and Rage, a Phantasmagoria

Hungary

Inez Baranay:

• The Edge of Bali,

Korea

Silvia Kwon:

• The Return

India

Aashish Kaul:

• The Queen’s Play

Rashida Murphy

• The Historian’s Daughter

Christopher Raja:

• The Burning Elephant

Subhash Jaireth:

• After Love

Iran

Shokoofeh Azar

• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

Ali Alizadeh

• The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc

Italy

Venero Armanno:

• Black Mountain

Rosa Cappiello

• Oh, Lucky Country!

Enza Gandolfo

• Swimming
• The Bridge

Lebanon

Michael Mohammed Ahmad:

• The Tribe

David Malouf:

• Harland’s Half Acre;
• Antipodes;
• Child’s Play;
• An Imaginary Life
• Ransom

Malaysia

Micheline Lee:

• The Healing Party

Pakistan

Azhar Abidi

• Passarola Rising

The Philippines

Merlinda Bobis:

• Locust Girl
• Fish-hair Woman

Poland

Herz Bergner

• Between Sky and Sea

Anna Rosner Blay

• Sister Sister

Pinchas Goldhar

• The Collected Stories of Pinchas Goldhar

Antoni Jach

• Napoleon’s Double

Leah Kaminsky:

• The Waiting Room

Olga Lorenzo

• The Light on the Water

Morris Lurie

• Rappaport
• Hergesheimer in the Present Tense

Alex Skovron:

• The Poet

Romania

Madeleine St John: (St John’s mother was Romanian, but she reinvented herself as pseudo-French once in Australia).

• The Women in Black
• A Stairway to Paradise;
• The Essence of the Thing

Serbia

A S Patric:

• Black Rock White City;
• Las Vegans for Vegans
• Atlantic Black

Singapore

Simone Lazaroo:

• Lost River, Four Albums;
• The Travel Writer
• Sustenance

South Sudan

Majok Tulba:

• Beneath the Darkening Sky

Sri Lanka

Michelle de Kretser:

• Questions of Travel
• Springtime;
• The Lost Dog
• The Life to Come

Rajith Savanadasa:

• Ruins

Channa Wickremesekera:

• Asylum

Swaziland

Malla Nunn:

• A Beautiful Place to Die

Anglo Swedish

Kristina Olssen

• The China Garden

Sweden

Anna Solding:

• The Hum of Concrete

Turkey

Alice Melike Ulgezer:

• The Memory of Salt

USA

Linda Jaivin:

• The Empress Lover

Eleanor Limprecht (born and raised in the US, Germany and Pakistan but now lives in Sydney, Australia)

• Long Bay
• The Passengers

USSR (Ukraine)

Maria Tumarkin

• Traumascapes

Vietnam

Hoa Pham:

• The Wave
• The Lady of the Realm

Nam Le:

• The Boat

Chi Vu:

• Anguli Ma: A Gothic Tale