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PUBLISHING LITERARY FICTION IN AN AGE OF LITE READING

  • Writer: Christopher G. Moore
    Christopher G. Moore
  • Mar 21, 2006
  • 1 min read

Publisher’s Lunch has an item about the diminishing market for fiction in Australia. What is happening in Australia is not isolated. It is a worldwide phenomenon: “The Australian is concerned about "three certainties about Australian fiction today: fewer books are being published, sales are falling and shelf-lives are shorter." The focus of their case study is novelist Brian Castro, whose seventh novel SHANGHAI DANCING was turned down by a number of large publishers before being issues by independent house Giramondo. ("Within months, Castro had trumped respected rivals - including Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee - to take out the main fiction prizes in the NSW and Victorian premiers' literary awards.")”

 
 
 

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