Maria Tumarkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation(s) | Author, cultural historian |
| Employer | University of Melbourne |
| Notable work | Axiomatic |
| Awards | Windham-Campbell Literature Prize |
Maria Tumarkin is an Australian cultural historian, essayist and novelist., and is as of 2019 senior lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, teaching creative writing.
Early life and education
Tumarkin was born and raised in Kharkov, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine.[1] She left her home country in 1989 when she was a teenager, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.[2]
She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a PhD in cultural history from the University of Melbourne.[3]
Writing
She writes books of ideas, reviews, essays and pieces for performance.[4]
Academia and projects
She was an Honorary Artistic Outreach Associate (2015–2016) at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a co-creator, with Moya McFadzean, of "The Unending Absence" project.[3]
As of 2021 Tumarkin taught creative writing at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.[4]
Works
Books
- Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy (2005)[5]
- Courage (2007)
- Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter (2010)
- Axiomatic (2018)
Essays (selected)
Awards
- Otherland was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year, and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
- "No Skin" was one of five finalists in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature category for essays shorter than 20,000 words[9][10]
- Axiomatic won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Best Writing[11] and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction.[12] It was also shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize.[13][14] and the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.[15]
- Winner of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize[16]
References
- ↑ Wood, Charlotte (23 July 2005). "Traumascapes". The Age.
- ↑ Dessaix, Robert (19 April 2010). "Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter". Sydney Morning Herald.
- 1 2 "Maria Tumarkin". Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- 1 2 "Maria Tumarkin". Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ Wood, Charlotte (23 July 2005). "Traumascapes". The Age.
- ↑ Taylor, Anna Frey (31 July 2014). "Why This American Life falls short for writer Maria Tumarkin". ABC Australia.
- ↑ "A selection of my recent essays". Maria Tumarkin. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ "'Against Motherhood Memoirs', Dangerous Ideas about Mothers". Maria Tumarkin. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
Extract from Dangerous Ideas about Mothers, edited by Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson.
- ↑ Steger, Jason (2 September 2015), "Five writers vie for $60,000 Melbourne Prize", Sydney Morning Herald, retrieved 11 July 2016
- ↑ Where are all the great Australian essays?, 24 February 2016, Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ "Lester wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Tumarkin wins Best Writing Award". Books+Publishing. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ↑ Nelson, Camilla (8 April 2019). "Stella prize 2019: your guide to the shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
Co-published with The Conversation
- ↑ Nelson, Camilla (8 April 2019). "Six books that shock, delve deeply and destroy pieties: your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist". The Converstation. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ Perkins, Cathy (Summer 2019). "Excellence in Literature and History". SL Magazine. 12 (4): 52–55.
- ↑ Alice, Jessica (19 March 2020). "Maria Tumarkin on winning the 2020 Windham Campbell: 'It feels like a complicated gift'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
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