Gabrielle Carey

Gabrielle Carey’s most recent book, Moving Among Strangers (UQP 2013), was the joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and short-listed for the 2015 National Biography Award. She teaches writing at the University of Technology Sydney.

Works By Gabrielle Carey

On Finishing Finnegans Wake
James Joyce once famously said that if it took him seventeen years to write Finnegans Wake, then a reader should take seventeen years to read it. In his usual prophetic way, he turned out to be exactly right.
3 May. 2021
Beginning In A Garden: on Elizabeth von Arnim
I am not certain that Elizabeth von Arnim remembered her Australian beginnings but neither am I convinced that she had forgotten them altogether.
25 June. 2019
Breaking Up with James Joyce
The truth is that there would be no Joyce without the three women who supported him: Nora, his life-long partner, Sylvia Beach, the first publisher of Ulysses, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, his benefactor. Lover, publisher and salary provider. Chance f...
14 June. 2018
John Clarke: A Postscript
'It was the day that Seamus Heaney died: August 30, 2013. I hadn’t seen John Clarke since the late 1970s.'
16 June. 2017

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Gabrielle Carey

Works By Gabrielle Carey

On Finishing Finnegans Wake

Beginning In A Garden: on Elizabeth von Arnim

Breaking Up with James Joyce

John Clarke: A Postscript

Works Featuring Gabrielle Carey

Wind, Water, Sunshine, Soil

Mostly private letters: Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey