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Australian cultural historian and writer
Maria Tumarkin is an Australian
cultural historian ,
essayist and
novelist ., and is as of 2019
[update] senior lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the
University of Melbourne , teaching creative writing.
Early life and education
Tumarkin was born and raised in
Kharkov , then part of the
Soviet Union , now in
Ukraine .
[1] She left her home country in 1989 when she was a teenager, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
[2]
She holds a
Bachelor of Arts and a
PhD in
cultural history from the
University of Melbourne .
[3]
Writing
She writes books of ideas, reviews, essays and pieces for performance.
[4]
Academia and projects
She was an Honorary Artistic Outreach Associate (2015–2016) at the
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a co-creator, with Moya McFadzean, of "The Unending Absence" project.
[3]
As of 2021
[update] Tumarkin taught
creative writing at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
[4]
Works
Books
Essays (selected)
This Narrated Life (Griffith Review, 1 May 2014)
[6]
No Skin (2 September 2015)
[7]
Against Motherhood (20 October 2018)
[8]
Awards
References
^ Wood, Charlotte (23 July 2005).
"Traumascapes" .
The Age .
^
Dessaix, Robert (19 April 2010).
"Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter" .
Sydney Morning Herald .
^
a
b
"Maria Tumarkin" . Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^
a
b
"Maria Tumarkin" . Archived from
the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^ Wood, Charlotte (23 July 2005).
"Traumascapes" . The Age.
^ Taylor, Anna Frey (31 July 2014).
"Why This American Life falls short for writer Maria Tumarkin" . ABC Australia .
^
"A selection of my recent essays" . Maria Tumarkin . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^
" 'Against Motherhood Memoirs', Dangerous Ideas about Mothers" . Maria Tumarkin . Retrieved 8 April 2019 . Extract from Dangerous Ideas about Mothers , edited by Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson.
^ Steger, Jason (2 September 2015),
"Five writers vie for $60,000 Melbourne Prize" ,
Sydney Morning Herald , retrieved 11 July 2016
^
Where are all the great Australian essays? , 24 February 2016 ,
Sydney Morning Herald
^
"Lester wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Tumarkin wins Best Writing Award" . Books+Publishing . 15 November 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019 .
^
"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced" . Books+Publishing . 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018 .
^ Nelson, Camilla (8 April 2019).
"Stella prize 2019: your guide to the shortlist" . The Guardian . Retrieved 8 April 2019 . Co-published with The Conversation
^ Nelson, Camilla (8 April 2019).
"Six books that shock, delve deeply and destroy pieties: your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist" . The Converstation. Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^ Perkins, Cathy (Summer 2019). "Excellence in Literature and History". SL Magazine . 12 (4): 52–55.
^ Alice, Jessica (19 March 2020).
"Maria Tumarkin on winning the 2020 Windham Campbell: 'It feels like a complicated gift' " . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 March 2020 .
External links
International National Academics People