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Stephen Muecke

Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has worked extensively in Indigenous Australia and more recently on the historical and contemporary links between culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean. His 1984 Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe) was one of the first post-modern ethnographies, and he is well known for his ficto-critical writing style in works like No Road (bitumen all the way). More recent books are Ancient & Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy, Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges,and _Joe in the Andamans and

Awards

Short listed, National Book Council Awards, 1983
Winner, Non-fiction prize for the West Australian Week Literary Awards, 1985
Short listed, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, 1985
Short listed, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, 1997
Short listed, Age Book of the Year, 1997
Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literature Awards, 1997

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