Review of Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, edited by Sue Kossew

Abstract

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most well-known, successful and esteemed writers. Her work has received both popular and critical attention and has been awarded a number of prestigious literary prizes. Lighting Dark Places recognises the breadth of Grenville's achievement, bringing scholarly work about her fiction together with essays that consider her profile as a writer and public intellectual, and her contribution to the discipline of creative writing. For this reason it is a timely and much needed volume.

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Published 1 June 2011 in Volume 26 No. 2. Subjects: Kate Grenville.

Cite as: Mitchell, Kate. ‘Review of Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, edited by Sue Kossew.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2011, doi: 10.20314/als.efe44d6700.