title: Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead (Sydney studies in Australian literature)
author:  Nicholas Birns 
description: Nicholas Birns is professor at the New School, New York. He is a leading scholar of Australian literature and editor of Antipodes, the publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies.
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  **Praise for** ** _The Broken Book_**
  
  
  ‘Both very Australian and resoundingly international, _The Broken Book_
  confirms Johnson’s status as one of the finest Australian writers . . .
  fiercely beautiful.’ _The Australian_
  
  
  ‘A bold narrative, in which we’re constantly reminded by the quality of her
  prose that this is an imaginative work . . . It’s a kaleidoscope of memory,
  jagged and disordered as the artist’s tragic life.’ _Canberra Times_
  
  
  ‘An astonishing novel . . . a jewel of a book.’ _Vogue Australia_
  
  
  ‘ _The Broken Book_ is wonderfully rich, complex and compelling. Susan Johnson
  has created an audacious and original novel with an awe-inspiring ability to
  explore emotional truths.’ _Daily Advertiser_
  
  
  **Praise for** ** _Life in Seven Mistakes_**
  
  
  ‘Feeling, insight, rambunctious wit.’ _New York Times Book Review_
  
  
  ‘She has a knack for presenting what can be unbearable in reality, of
  rendering it on the page with tremendous heart.’ _Sydney Morning_ _Herald_
  
  
  