Gregory Day
BornMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupationwriter
Years active1990 —
Notable worksThe Patron Saint of Eels, The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road, Archipelago Of Souls, A Sand Archive
Notable awardsPatrick White Award, ALS Gold Medal, Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize, Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician.

Life

Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive, which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has been much acclaimed for his place-based nature essays, and also for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the album The Black Tower, and his project The Flash Road, which narrates in song the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War. Day is also the co-founder with artist and book designer, Sian Marlow, of the fine press limited edition literature and music publisher, Merrijig Word & Sound Co.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

Essays

Artist Books

Poetry

Music

Interviews

  • "ABC Radio National Books and Arts" July 2015
  • "ABC Radio National Book Show" - 21 May 2008

References

  1. Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. "Day wins Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. "Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize". Books+Publishing. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  4. "Big Picture Thinking in The Bell of The World". The Conversation. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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