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Shadow Thief
Pandanus Books 2006
For more recent reviews of Shadow Thief, see also:
Barlow, Damien. Review Shadow Thief. Overland, June 2007.
Birns, Nichlas. 'Marion Campbell's true fiction' Antipodes, The North American Journal of Australian Literature 2006-12-01
Shadow Thief is a difficult but rewarding book. (…) Campbell strives for and attains the thwarted and transgressive articulations of a William Faulkner.
Cameron Woodhead The Age, 15 July, 2006
‘Taking the act of vanishing—by choice or circumstance—as its theme, this skilful and vibrant novel centres on characters who rise strikingly from the page.’
API Review of Books, 19 June 2006
‘The detailed examination of the inside of these two women’s heads is fascinating and beguiling. You always want to know more, to get the next episode.’
The West Australian, 1 July 2006
'Shadow Thief is another thoroughly enjoyable novel from Marion Campbell appealing to the intellect as much as the senses. (...) This is a remarkable work, well ahead of its time.'
Marie-France Mack Island Magazine
Prowler
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999
‘For those who are familiar with Marion Campbell’s first two novels, Lines of Flight, 1985 and Not Being Miriam, 1988, reading her latest is like a second visit to an archaeological dig. There, the visitor might have appreciated the beauty of what had been uncovered then. With Prowler, the visitor is confronted by many other shrines, excavated since the first visit, all displaying familiar features and a wealth of new signs to explore.’
Marie-France Mack LinQ
‘this marvellously rich work’
Philip Mead The UTS Review of Cultural Studies and New Writing
‘Marion Campbell uses language in a fluid and engaging way, mixing rich, poetic prose and inflammatory use of the vernacular at will.’
Bruce Russell Antipodes
‘Campbell’s is a thoroughly feminist voice. Her books are manifestations of female fluidity of thought… She has a genuine ability to create characters through insight and empathy.’
Leslie Walters Australian Women’s Book Review
‘Prowler is good writing (…) because it explores a fundamental emotional truth: the rift in every individual which is both excavated and healed by these lethal connections to life and to others.’
Carolyn Bliss World Literature Today
Not Being Miriam
(1988/rpnt 1993)
‘Campbell’s writing is dazzling. For virtuoso performance there is no one to compare her with other than Janet Frame.’
Stephanie Dowrick, Vogue Australia
‘A work of wit and audacity, power and complexity, a dance, celebrating and justifying the women’s stories it tells.’
Delys Bird The Good Reading Guide
‘Marion Campbell’s inventiveness, intelligence, ear for language, absolutely fine descriptive faculty and more, make Not Being Miriam a masterpiece.’
John Weyland The West Australian
‘A fiercely intelligent novel.’
Dinny O’Heane The Good Reading Guide
‘She is a writer who is intellectual, socially concerned and an entertainer. It is a rare combination . (…) A rebel spirit with a wild, wicked imagination.’
Susan McKernan The Bulletin
Lines of Flight
Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1985/rpnt1990
‘The advance notices of Lines of Flight were daunting superlatives: “awesomely intelligent…endlessly versatile and inventive, richly original…”, the sort of thing up to which no writer should have to live, and with a first novel yet. But this book deserves all that.’
Inez Baranay, The Sydney Morning Herald
‘A witty and constantly delightful story of the experience of a woman artist…[Campbell is] a rebel spirit with a wild wicked imagination.’
Susan McKernan, The Bulletin
‘One of the most exciting, inventive books of fiction I’ve read recently… what a rich and exhilarating experience it is.’
David Gilbey Weekend Australian
‘One of the most important works of fiction to have appeared in Australia.’
Susan Midalia Westerly
See also: http://www.biography.jrank.org/pages/4202/Campbell-Marion-May.html.
Google: Lorna Sage & Germain Greer eds. Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (for entry on Lines of Flight & Not Being Miriam)
Cover Image Olive Cotton
QUALIFICATIONS
1973 Maîtrise ès Lettres Modernes (mention: Très Bien)/
Masters in Modern Literature (High Distinction)
Université de Provence, Centre d’Aix
1970 B. A. with First Class Honours in French (University of Western Australia)
1966 Diplôme Supérieur (Alliance Française, Paris)
CURRENT HIGHER ED/RESEARCH
Enrolled PhD candidature (part-time) Victoria University topic: The Problem of the Poetic Revolutionary Intertextuality and Subversion with Supervisor Dr Michele Grossman (confirmed)
TEACHING HISTORY
1999-2007 Lecturer Level C, Creative Writing, Department of English, 1999-2006 Coordinator Creative Writing University of Melbourne Dept English
1990-1996 Lecturer Creative Writing Murdoch University
PUBLICATIONS
Books /Reprints
Fragments from a Paper Witch. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. (forthcoming May, 2008)
Campbell, Marion May. ⎯ Shadow Thief Canberra: Pandanus, 2006.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Prowler. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1990. 392 pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Not Being Miriam. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. 187pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Not Being Miriam. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Reprint, 1994. 187pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Lines of Flight. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1985. 292pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯Lines of Flight. Novel. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Full-Length Scripts Published
Ariadne’s Understudies The Australian Script Centre
Full-length Scripts Performed
1992 Ariadne’s Understudies with Director Noelle Janaczewska at PICA.
1990 ‘Dr Memory in the Dream Home’ (musical theatre) Director Andrew Ross, with composer Stuart Davies Slate at Perth Instititute of Contemporary Art. Perth Arts Festival.
1990 ‘Dr Memory in the Dream Home’
broadcast on ABC National
PUBLICATIONS 1999-2008
Scripts, Novel Extracts, Poetry and Short Fiction in Journals and Anthologies
2006 Campbell, Marion M. ‘The Half-Life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone: Act III, Scene i. in Playworks Slices Emag #2.http://www.playworks.org.au/phpwebsite/mod.php?mod=userpage&men u=1604&page_id=53
2005 Campbell, Marion M. ‘A Very Pale Meat’ Westerly 50 2005. 186-192.
2005 Marion M Campbell. ‘The Half-Life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone: Act III, Scene i. In The New Antigone. 1 Spring October. 94-96.
2004 Campbell, Marion. ‘Beach Riding Lesson’ in Southerly. 49
2004 Campbell, Marion. ‘Nightfill’ in Southerly. 49.
2003 Campbell, Marion. ‘Cisca-Short-For-Nothing’. In Peter Craven, ed. Best Australian Stories. Melbourne: Black Inc. 161-193.
2002 ‘Hanging on His Word’ in Terri-ann White, ed. Salt: Memory Writing Fremantle: FACP.
2001 Campbell, Marion.⎯ ‘Goodness Itself’ (short fiction) in Fire and Shadow Heat 1 New Series, 1. 151-162.
2000 Campbell, Marion.⎯‘Icarus’ (poem) in & Farrago: 11
ESSAYS, ARTICLES 1999-2008
2007. Campbell, Marion M. ‘Brian Castro’s Radical Disorientalism’ in Caroline Hamilton et al. The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal. Newcastle, U.K..: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2007. Campbell, Marion May. ‘Dismantling the White Picket Fence: Reclaiming Multiplicity in Kim Scott’s Benang and Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing. In Les Cahiers du CICLas: Synergies. Avril, 2007. 45-58.
2006 Campbell, Marion M. Review Ffion Murphy. Devotion. Fremantle: FACP, 2006. API Review July 2006.
2003 Campbell, Marion M. ⎯ Review Sarah Hay. Skins JAS Book Review. Issue 13, March
http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrb.cgi?issue=13
2000 Campbell, Marion. —’Writing Back Black’ Review Article on Kim Scott’s Benang in ITS Review of Cultural Studies and New Writing. 189-195.
2000 Campbell, Marion. —Review of Kerryn Goldsworthy Australian Women’s Short Stories Oxford: Sydney, 2000, ABR 2000
Campbell, Marion.—’Helen Daniel Obituary’ in Australian Publishers’ Weekly October.
2000 Campbell, Marion. —’Evil, Time, Redemption.’ In Westerly.
1999 Campbell, Marion.— ‘Spectacular Motherhood’ in Ed. Sybylla Collective Motherlode, Melbourne: Sybylla Press.
LITERARY AWARDS & SHORT-LISTINGS
2007 Shadow Thief shortlisted for WA Premier’s Literary Awards
2000 Prowler short-listed for Western Australian Premier’s Awards
1999 Prowler short-listed for the Age Book of the Year
1990-1992 Twice Short-listed for the Canada Australia Prize for Lines of Flight and Not Being Miriam
1992 ‘Dr. Memory in the Dream Home’ (script for Musical Theatre Piece performed at P.I.C.A.) was awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize (shared) for the Best Contribution to Westerly
1989 Not Being Miriam short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Awards (Vance Palmer Fiction Prize).
1989 Not Being Miriam Awarded WA Week Literary Awards Fiction Prize for Prose Fiction
1989 Not Being Miriam listed as one of 21 International Feminist Favourites for the Australian Feminist Book Fortnight
1986 Lines of Flight Short-listed for NSW Premier’s Prize
1986 Lines of Flight Commended for Barbara Ramsden Medal Victorian Fellowship Writers
1986 Lines of Flight Short-listed for WA Literary Week Prize
GRANTS 1999-2008
2005 First Draft Dramaturgy Grant from Playworks for The Half-life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone.
Australian feminist writer influenced by early exposure to French avant-garde (Mallarme, Genet, Duras, Cixous, Barthes, Wittig.). Barthes’ catchcry that to write is an intransitive verb still resonates. Writing is that connective tissue whereby we catch otherness, whereby we relay our ardour.
Marguerite Duras
Jean Genet
About Me
- Marion May Campbell
- Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Writer, teacher See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_May_Campbell
What they've said about my writing...
Shadow Thief
Pandanus Books 2006
For more recent reviews of Shadow Thief, see also:
Barlow, Damien. Review Shadow Thief. Overland, June 2007.
Birns, Nichlas. 'Marion Campbell's true fiction' Antipodes, The North American Journal of Australian Literature 2006-12-01
McCulloch, A. (2006) The Casting of Shadows and the Finding of Form. Book review: Marion Campbell, Shadow Thief (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006), Southerly: a review of Australian literature, Vol 66, No 2, pp. 129-133
Shadow Thief ‘…tremendously accomplished…at times compelling, even scintillating. Although many of the topics are common to Australian women’s novels—mothers and relationships and sex, often gay—it is about as far as it can get from chick lit…Campbell is experimental and adventurous with words and launches often into unexpected riffs, her writing gathering steam as she moves further and further into her subjects’ moody and intense interior worlds.’
Shadow Thief is a difficult but rewarding book. (…) Campbell strives for and attains the thwarted and transgressive articulations of a William Faulkner.
Cameron Woodhead The Age, 15 July, 2006
‘Taking the act of vanishing—by choice or circumstance—as its theme, this skilful and vibrant novel centres on characters who rise strikingly from the page.’
API Review of Books, 19 June 2006
‘The detailed examination of the inside of these two women’s heads is fascinating and beguiling. You always want to know more, to get the next episode.’
The West Australian, 1 July 2006
'Shadow Thief is another thoroughly enjoyable novel from Marion Campbell appealing to the intellect as much as the senses. (...) This is a remarkable work, well ahead of its time.'
Marie-France Mack Island Magazine
Prowler
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999
‘For those who are familiar with Marion Campbell’s first two novels, Lines of Flight, 1985 and Not Being Miriam, 1988, reading her latest is like a second visit to an archaeological dig. There, the visitor might have appreciated the beauty of what had been uncovered then. With Prowler, the visitor is confronted by many other shrines, excavated since the first visit, all displaying familiar features and a wealth of new signs to explore.’
Marie-France Mack LinQ
‘this marvellously rich work’
Philip Mead The UTS Review of Cultural Studies and New Writing
‘Marion Campbell uses language in a fluid and engaging way, mixing rich, poetic prose and inflammatory use of the vernacular at will.’
Bruce Russell Antipodes
‘Campbell’s is a thoroughly feminist voice. Her books are manifestations of female fluidity of thought… She has a genuine ability to create characters through insight and empathy.’
Leslie Walters Australian Women’s Book Review
‘Prowler is good writing (…) because it explores a fundamental emotional truth: the rift in every individual which is both excavated and healed by these lethal connections to life and to others.’
Carolyn Bliss World Literature Today
Not Being Miriam
(1988/rpnt 1993)
‘Campbell’s writing is dazzling. For virtuoso performance there is no one to compare her with other than Janet Frame.’
Stephanie Dowrick, Vogue Australia
‘A work of wit and audacity, power and complexity, a dance, celebrating and justifying the women’s stories it tells.’
Delys Bird The Good Reading Guide
‘Marion Campbell’s inventiveness, intelligence, ear for language, absolutely fine descriptive faculty and more, make Not Being Miriam a masterpiece.’
John Weyland The West Australian
‘A fiercely intelligent novel.’
Dinny O’Heane The Good Reading Guide
‘She is a writer who is intellectual, socially concerned and an entertainer. It is a rare combination . (…) A rebel spirit with a wild, wicked imagination.’
Susan McKernan The Bulletin
Lines of Flight
Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1985/rpnt1990
‘The advance notices of Lines of Flight were daunting superlatives: “awesomely intelligent…endlessly versatile and inventive, richly original…”, the sort of thing up to which no writer should have to live, and with a first novel yet. But this book deserves all that.’
Inez Baranay, The Sydney Morning Herald
‘A witty and constantly delightful story of the experience of a woman artist…[Campbell is] a rebel spirit with a wild wicked imagination.’
Susan McKernan, The Bulletin
‘One of the most exciting, inventive books of fiction I’ve read recently… what a rich and exhilarating experience it is.’
David Gilbey Weekend Australian
‘One of the most important works of fiction to have appeared in Australia.’
Susan Midalia Westerly
See also: http://www.biography.jrank.org/pages/4202/Campbell-Marion-May.html.
Google: Lorna Sage & Germain Greer eds. Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (for entry on Lines of Flight & Not Being Miriam)
Shadow Thief, 2006
Cover Image Olive Cotton
Theatre
Dr Memory in the Dream Home
Satirical Musical Theatre with composer Stuart Davies-Slate, PICA, 199o. Performed at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in the Perth Festival.
The script shared The Patricia Hacket Prize conferred by Westerly, 1992.
Ariadne's Understudies
With director-dramaturg Noelle Janaczewska
Performed Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992
The Half-Life of Creonite
Dramaturg Mel Beddie
Script forthcoming in Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt Publishing, May, 2008)
All enquiries re performance my e-mail:
Negotiations with my Literary Agents
Equinox Management
PO Box 514
Rozelle
NSW2039
Tel 61 (0)2 9810 2553
Fax 61 (0)29810 7880
Satirical Musical Theatre with composer Stuart Davies-Slate, PICA, 199o. Performed at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in the Perth Festival.
The script shared The Patricia Hacket Prize conferred by Westerly, 1992.
Ariadne's Understudies
With director-dramaturg Noelle Janaczewska
Performed Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992
The Half-Life of Creonite
Dramaturg Mel Beddie
Script forthcoming in Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt Publishing, May, 2008)
All enquiries re performance my e-mail:
Negotiations with my Literary Agents
Equinox Management
PO Box 514
Rozelle
NSW2039
Tel 61 (0)2 9810 2553
Fax 61 (0)29810 7880
Marion May Campbell Curriculum Vitae 1998-2008
QUALIFICATIONS
1973 Maîtrise ès Lettres Modernes (mention: Très Bien)/
Masters in Modern Literature (High Distinction)
Université de Provence, Centre d’Aix
1970 B. A. with First Class Honours in French (University of Western Australia)
1966 Diplôme Supérieur (Alliance Française, Paris)
CURRENT HIGHER ED/RESEARCH
Enrolled PhD candidature (part-time) Victoria University topic: The Problem of the Poetic Revolutionary Intertextuality and Subversion with Supervisor Dr Michele Grossman (confirmed)
TEACHING HISTORY
1999-2007 Lecturer Level C, Creative Writing, Department of English, 1999-2006 Coordinator Creative Writing University of Melbourne Dept English
1990-1996 Lecturer Creative Writing Murdoch University
PUBLICATIONS
Books /Reprints
Fragments from a Paper Witch. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. (forthcoming May, 2008)
Campbell, Marion May. ⎯ Shadow Thief Canberra: Pandanus, 2006.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Prowler. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1990. 392 pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Not Being Miriam. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. 187pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Not Being Miriam. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Reprint, 1994. 187pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯ Lines of Flight. Novel Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1985. 292pp.
Campbell, Marion. ⎯Lines of Flight. Novel. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Full-Length Scripts Published
Ariadne’s Understudies The Australian Script Centre
Full-length Scripts Performed
1992 Ariadne’s Understudies with Director Noelle Janaczewska at PICA.
1990 ‘Dr Memory in the Dream Home’ (musical theatre) Director Andrew Ross, with composer Stuart Davies Slate at Perth Instititute of Contemporary Art. Perth Arts Festival.
1990 ‘Dr Memory in the Dream Home’
broadcast on ABC National
PUBLICATIONS 1999-2008
Scripts, Novel Extracts, Poetry and Short Fiction in Journals and Anthologies
2006 Campbell, Marion M. ‘The Half-Life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone: Act III, Scene i. in Playworks Slices Emag #2.http://www.playworks.org.au/phpwebsite/mod.php?mod=userpage&men u=1604&page_id=53
2005 Campbell, Marion M. ‘A Very Pale Meat’ Westerly 50 2005. 186-192.
2005 Marion M Campbell. ‘The Half-Life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone: Act III, Scene i. In The New Antigone. 1 Spring October. 94-96.
2004 Campbell, Marion. ‘Beach Riding Lesson’ in Southerly. 49
2004 Campbell, Marion. ‘Nightfill’ in Southerly. 49.
2003 Campbell, Marion. ‘Cisca-Short-For-Nothing’. In Peter Craven, ed. Best Australian Stories. Melbourne: Black Inc. 161-193.
2002 ‘Hanging on His Word’ in Terri-ann White, ed. Salt: Memory Writing Fremantle: FACP.
2001 Campbell, Marion.⎯ ‘Goodness Itself’ (short fiction) in Fire and Shadow Heat 1 New Series, 1. 151-162.
2000 Campbell, Marion.⎯‘Icarus’ (poem) in & Farrago: 11
ESSAYS, ARTICLES 1999-2008
2007. Campbell, Marion M. ‘Brian Castro’s Radical Disorientalism’ in Caroline Hamilton et al. The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal. Newcastle, U.K..: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2007. Campbell, Marion May. ‘Dismantling the White Picket Fence: Reclaiming Multiplicity in Kim Scott’s Benang and Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing. In Les Cahiers du CICLas: Synergies. Avril, 2007. 45-58.
2006 Campbell, Marion M. Review Ffion Murphy. Devotion. Fremantle: FACP, 2006. API Review July 2006.
2003 Campbell, Marion M. ⎯ Review Sarah Hay. Skins JAS Book Review. Issue 13, March
http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrb.cgi?issue=13
2000 Campbell, Marion. —’Writing Back Black’ Review Article on Kim Scott’s Benang in ITS Review of Cultural Studies and New Writing. 189-195.
2000 Campbell, Marion. —Review of Kerryn Goldsworthy Australian Women’s Short Stories Oxford: Sydney, 2000, ABR 2000
Campbell, Marion.—’Helen Daniel Obituary’ in Australian Publishers’ Weekly October.
2000 Campbell, Marion. —’Evil, Time, Redemption.’ In Westerly.
1999 Campbell, Marion.— ‘Spectacular Motherhood’ in Ed. Sybylla Collective Motherlode, Melbourne: Sybylla Press.
LITERARY AWARDS & SHORT-LISTINGS
2007 Shadow Thief shortlisted for WA Premier’s Literary Awards
2000 Prowler short-listed for Western Australian Premier’s Awards
1999 Prowler short-listed for the Age Book of the Year
1990-1992 Twice Short-listed for the Canada Australia Prize for Lines of Flight and Not Being Miriam
1992 ‘Dr. Memory in the Dream Home’ (script for Musical Theatre Piece performed at P.I.C.A.) was awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize (shared) for the Best Contribution to Westerly
1989 Not Being Miriam short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Awards (Vance Palmer Fiction Prize).
1989 Not Being Miriam Awarded WA Week Literary Awards Fiction Prize for Prose Fiction
1989 Not Being Miriam listed as one of 21 International Feminist Favourites for the Australian Feminist Book Fortnight
1986 Lines of Flight Short-listed for NSW Premier’s Prize
1986 Lines of Flight Commended for Barbara Ramsden Medal Victorian Fellowship Writers
1986 Lines of Flight Short-listed for WA Literary Week Prize
GRANTS 1999-2008
2005 First Draft Dramaturgy Grant from Playworks for The Half-life of Creonite: An Antipodean Antigone.