Search Results for: Arnold Zable
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Arts & Culture
Philhellene author Arnold Zable recognised from the start the Greek passion for life with a deep sense of familiarity
“My work has been written, performed, in the spirit of philoxenia, of welcoming the stranger and seeking him out. Because…
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Arts & Culture
Arnold Zable – Australia Council Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature
I am touched and honoured in receiving the Australia Council Lifetime Achievement award in literature — especially on this day…
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Arts & Culture
Arnold Zable: Greek tale a chance to reflect upon immigration in Australia
Over the past two years, Australia has observed a series of World War I centenaries peaking with the commemoration of…
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Australasia
Read With Raf October: The Fighter by Arnold Zable
The Read With Raf book for October is Arnold Zable‘s ‘The Fighter’, a biography of Henry Nissen, champion boxer and…
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Books
An Interview with Arnold Zable about His New Book, The Fighter
Arnold Zable applied his extraordinary storytelling skills in writing his new biography, The Fighter, about a truly working-class hero. Henry…
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Agora People
Zable, Arnold
Arnold Zable is an award winning writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, (Scribe, 1991)…
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Australasia
He walks among them: Remembering Father Bob
I got to know him in 2015 when working on The Fighter, a book exploring the life of ex-boxer and youth…
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Australasia
Son of the West: A tribute to Peter Haffenden
On the day Peter Haffenden died the waters of the Maribyrnong River were rising, the floods peaking, lapping at the…
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Arts & Culture
On the women’s faces, that look which says: ‘How is this possible?’
On his recent visit to Poland and Germany, ARNOLD ZABLE finds the victims of a new war intermingling with the…
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Artist
‘This is how they drive you mad’: refugee turns anguish into art
I walk the paths I know so well and call Farhad Bandesh. Arnold Zable The Age He is detained in…
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Asylum Seekers
Time has come for an amnesty for those suffering on Manus and Nauru
On the night of May 18, as the results of the federal election became apparent, reports of distress began coming in…
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Activism
Bring Behrouz home to Australia: he is one of us
There is a pivotal moment in Behrouz Boochani’s book, No Friend but the Mountains. In late August, 2013, a propeller-driven plane…
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Australia’s barbaric policy confronted by Boochani’s prison memoir
Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani has been exiled on Manus Island since August 2013. Arnold Zable The Age He…
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Australasia
What does it mean to reclaim a place?
It was Eurydice Dixon who drew us here on a cold winter night. We stood in the thousands, with her…
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Europe
Edelman’s spirit challenges the rising nationalist right in Europe
This month marks 75 years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising ended. In 2006, I met the last living leader of…
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Australasia
Invasion Day Post
A line comes to mind in contemplating those who have come to our shores over the past two centuries ‘They…
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