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Dr Merlinda Bobis
Lecturer
Bachelor of Arts, Aquinas University of Legaspi; Master
of Arts, University of Santo Tomas, Manila; Doctorate
of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong
Consultation Hours:
Wednesday 2.00 - 4.00pm, Friday 2.00 - 4.00pm
Merlinda Bobis, a Filipino-Australian, is the author
of four poetry books, four plays and a collection of
short stories. She has won the 2000 Steele Rudd Award
(for the Best Collection of Australian Short Stories),
the 2000 Philippine National Book Award and the 2001
Judges’ Choice Award (Bumbershoot Bookfair, Seattle
Arts Festival) for White Turtle (The Kissing, US edition),
the 1998 Prix Italia, the 1998 AWGIE (Australian Writers'
Guild Award) and the 1995 Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize
for the play Rita's Lullaby, and several Philippine
national literary awards for her poetry in English and
Pilipino.
Her poetry book Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
was short-listed for the 1998 The Age Poetry Book Award.
She has recently finished her first novel, which received
the 2000 NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers' Fellowship.
Bobis is an accomplished performer of her own poetry
embodying text in dance, music and theatre. She is currently
writing her next novel and a full-length play.
SOME NOTES FROM REVIEWS OF "WHITE TURTLE"
"It would be hard to find a writer with more love
and reverence for all the pleasures the tongue is capable
of enduring." EJ Patrick, MS Magazine, Oct-Nov
2000, NY.
"How else could one describe this rare energy
squeezed most of the time in short, short pieces brimming
with a kind of surreal disassociativeness but with a
logic of their own, spinning with an enchantment that
is a shamanlike summon ing up of experience within the
reader?" O Dimalanta, Philippine Daily Inquirer,
13 March 1999, Manila.
"More effective than any detached post-colonial
analysis are Bobis' delicate delineations of ordinary
lives in juxtapositions of poverty and wealth w hich
transcend stereotypes or easy sentiment." B Brookes,
Australian Women's Book Review, Vol 11, 1999.
E-mail: merlinda_bobis@uow.edu.au
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The Kissing
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White Turtle
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Summer was a fast train without
terminals
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Merlinda's books are available
at major independent book shops and at the Wollongong
University bookshop.
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Merlinda Bobis
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