Reading diasporic novelist Shyam Selvadurai’s semi-autobiographical text Funny Boy as an adult, some two decades later, was like fumbling excitedly through my own childhood memories.
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Tournament of Books
Tom Cho Vs. Thea Astley in the Meanjin Tournament of Books Grand Final
Second Semi-Final Tom Cho Vs Jospehine Rowe judged by Melinda Harvey
First Semi-Final Thea Astley Vs Nam Le judged by Ronnie Scott
R2 M4 ‘Today on Dr Phil’ Vs. ‘Five Acre Virgin’ judged by First Dog
R2 M3 ‘In the Mornings We Would Sometimes Hear Him Singing’ Vs. ‘American Dreams’ judged by Melissa Cranenburgh
R2 M2 ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Vs ‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’ judged by André Dao
R2 M1 ‘Hunting the Wild Pineapple’ Vs. ‘Squeaker’s Mate’ judged by Josephine Rowe
Match Eight ‘American Dreams’ Vs ‘The Promise’ judged by Sean M Whelan
Match Seven ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Vs ‘Static’ judged by Subhash Jaireth
Match Six: ‘Squeaker’s Mate’ Vs ‘The Annual Conference of 1930 and South Coast Dada’ judged by Patrick Pittman
Match Five: ‘In the Mornings we would Sometimes Hear Him Singing’ Vs ‘A,B,C,D–Z’ judged by Jo Case
Match Four: ‘Five Acre Virgin’ Vs Sonya Hartnett’s ‘Any Dog’ judged by Estelle Tang
Match Three: ‘It’s Too Difficult to Explain’ Vs. ‘Hunting the Wild Pineapple’ judged by John Hunter
Match Two: ‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’ Vs. ‘Darling Odile’ judged by Anna Heyward
Match One: ‘Happiness’ Vs ‘Today on Dr Phil’ judged by Angela Meyer