Anthony Macris

Anthony Macris (born 29 June 1962) is an Australian novelist, critic and academic. He has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the Age Book of the Year, and been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. His creative work has been supported by grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has been a regular contributor of book reviews, feature articles and essays to the national media, principally in the area of international literary fiction.

The main concerns of the Capital novels are "the increasing penetration of market forces into everyday life" (Sydney Review of Books), and the effect of "the last several decades of capitalist ‘progress’ … [on] ‘the life-worlds of ordinary people" (The Conversation).

1998: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist: listed for Capital, Volume One

1998: Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book: South-East Asian Section (shortlist): Capital, Volume One

2003: Sussex-Samuel Award, Australasian Languages and Literature Association: "Claude Simon and the Emergence of the Generative mise en abyme"

2011: Age Book of the Year (shortlist): When Horse Became Saw

2012: Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: non-fiction (shortlist): When Horse Became Saw

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