Antoni Jach (born 1956) is an Australian novelist, painter and playwright.Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival His most recent novel is Napoleon's Double, a narrative enlisting history and philosophy for its own neo-baroque ends.Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival His previous novels are The Weekly Card Game, a tragicomic study of quotidian repetition and The Layers of the City, a meditation on contemporary Paris, civilisation and barbarism (which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award and was translated into Turkish under the title Sehrin Katmanlari).Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival
Antoni Jach (born 1956) is an Australian novelist, painter and playwright.Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival His most recent novel is Napoleon's Double, a narrative enlisting history and philosophy for its own neo-baroque ends.Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival His previous novels are The Weekly Card Game, a tragicomic study of quotidian repetition and The Layers of the City, a meditation on contemporary Paris, civilisation and barbarism (which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award and was translated into Turkish under the title Sehrin Katmanlari).Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival
Antoni is also the author of a book of poetry, An Erratic History, an idiosyncratic history of Australia and two plays, Miss Furr and Miss Skeene and Waiting for Isabella. He is the creator of a series of artist videos and his paintings have been on display in an exhibition at Le Globo in Paris. He is the publisher at Modern Writing Press, is as an editorial adviser at the literary journal, Heat, holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has a painting featured on the cover of Antipodes, the literary journal of the American Association for Australian Literary StudiesCover of Antipodes
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