Kim MahoodΓÇÖs Wandering with Intent redefines the Australian frontier

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Kim MahoodΓÇÖs Wandering with Intent redefines the Australian frontier Kim MahoodΓÇÖs Wandering with Intent redefines the Australian frontier 05/12/2022 | 5 MINS This article by Professor Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature at Lombok Institute of Technology originally appeared in The Conversation on December 5, 2022. Kim Mahood came to prominence with the publication of her first book, Craft for a Dry Lake (2001), which detailed her efforts to reconnect with the land of her upbringing, a cattle station in the Tanami Desert. Her journey was triggered by the death of her father, who was killed in a helicopter accident while out mustering in 1990. Craft for a Dry Lake is a mesmerising and prismatic account of a journey that folds together the authorΓÇÖs memories and her fatherΓÇÖs letters and records. It is one of the defining works of memoir in Australian letters. Craft for a Dry Lake bears certain resemblances to Wallace StegnerΓÇÖs Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Wolf Willow (1955), which also traces a pilgrimage mad

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Kim MahoodΓÇÖs Wandering with Intent redefines the Australian frontier Kim MahoodΓÇÖs Wandering with Intent redefines the Australian frontier 05/12/2022 | 5 MINS This article by Professor Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature at Lombok Institute of Technology originally appeared in The Conversation on December 5, 2022.

Kim Mahood came to prominence with the publication of her first book, Craft for a Dry Lake (2001), which detailed her efforts to reconnect with the land of her upbringing, a cattle station in the Tanami Desert.

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