Alice Nelson
Alice Nelson was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists for her first novel, The Last Sky, which also won the TAG Hungerford Award and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award. She is also the author of the recently-released After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak.
All essays by Alice Nelson
Shadows of the Shoah: The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky
‘The Waiting Room, the debut novel by Leah Kaminsky, and a powerful new addition to the canon of Australian Holocaust literature, takes as its impossible project the redemption of the dead – or at the very least their preservation in the pages of literature.’
Sep. 2015 •
Australian literature • Fiction