Giramondo Publishing

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Giramondo is an independent literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction and non-fiction, renowned for the quality of its writing, editing and book design. Giramondo was established in 1995 to publish innovative and adventurous literary work, and our titles have since won or been shortlisted for all the major Australian literary prizes.

COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW

Jessica Au

In Cold Enough for Snow, a daughter and mother travel to Tokyo in autumn. Jessica Au’s novel is at once a careful reckoning and an elegy, that questions whether any of us speak a common language, and what right we have to know another’s inner world.

• Inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, selected from more than 1,500 entries. • To be published simultaneously by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA).

• Translation rights sold in fourteen territories.

RELEASE DATE: 02/2022 ISBN: 9781925818925 RRP (AUD): $24.95 FORMAT: PB, 108pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK, Chinese (Simpliefied, Complex), Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Romania CATEGORY: Fiction

LAST LETTER TO A READER

Gerald Murnane

The final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.

• The final work by one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ben Lerner and Teju Cole, among others.

• Will appeal to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, attracted by his reputation as a truly original Australian writer.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781925818840 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 140pp RIGHTS: World ex US, UK CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Essays

THE DANCER

A BIOGRAPHY FOR PHILIPPA CULLEN

Evelyn Juers

The new book by prizewinning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India.

• New book from acclaimed biographer Evelyn Juers, whose book House of Exile was published internationally and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction.

• Philippa Cullen was a uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, who was at the forefront of international electronic performance and music, and whose work is now being re-discovered.

RELEASE DATE: 10/2021 ISBN: 9781925818727 RRP (AUD): $39.95 FORMAT: PB, 592pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction, Biography

THE MAGPIE WING

Max Easton

Max Easton’s debut novel moves from the 90s to the present, between the suburbs and the inner city, exploring how communities that appear worlds apart — underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups — share unexpected roots.

• Debut novel exploring how young characters from the suburbs discover new identities in the cultural world of the city.

• ‘A 2000s coming-of-age novel for a certain kind of Sydney: a book about fleeing the nest in search of oneself only to find that you’ve abandoned it — then wanting it back.’ — Shaun Prescott.

RELEASE DATE: 09/2021 ISBN: 9781925818765 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 256pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

NO DOCUMENT

Anwen Crawford

A groundbreaking work by one of Australia’s most respected non-fiction writers, No Document is an elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death. Anwen Crawford’s book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures.

• Widely praised as ‘a masterpiece’, ‘a stunningly crafted testament to the enduring power of art and literature’, and ‘a farranging work of mourning and a profoundly moving act of remembrance’.

• Crawford is one of Australia’s most politically engaged and formally innovative writers of nonfiction.

• Publication forthcoming from Transit Books in the US.

RELEASE DATE: 04/2021 ISBN: 9781925818611 RRP (AUD): $26.95 FORMAT: PB, 160pp RIGHTS: World ex US CATEGORY: Non-fiction