Robert Dessaix is a writer of fiction, autobiography and the
occasional essay. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian
language and literature for many years at the Australian National
University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the
weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National. In more
recent years he has also presented radio series on Australian
public intellectuals and great travellers in history, as well as
regular programs on language.
His best-known books, all translated into several European
languages, are his autobiography A Mother's Disgrace; the novels
Night Letters and Corfu; a collection of essays and short stories
(and so forth); and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and
Arabesques. In 2012 he published the collection of originally
spoken pieces As I Was Saying, and in 2014 the meditation What Days
Are For. A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in
Hobart, Tasmania.
"This is what Robert Dessaix does best: an amalgam of travel writing, anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural and literary commentary, with a dash or two of politics and history as well, all of it held together by a pleasingly discursive style."
"This is what Robert Dessaix does best: an amalgam of travel writing, anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural and literary commentary, with a dash or two of politics and history as well, all of it held together by a pleasingly discursive style."
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