Vale Morris Lurie
Australian author Morris Lurie has died, aged 75.
Penguin Australia writes:
‘Penguin Australia is saddened by the passing of acclaimed Melbourne writer Morris Lurie. During a career which spanned almost 50 years, Morris wrote numerous books, short stories, essays and plays, including the novel Seven Books for Grossman and celebrated children’s book Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race, published by Penguin. A fine writer, who will be greatly missed.’
Hybrid publisher Louis de Vries writes:
‘Born in Melbourne, Morris Lurie was an acclaimed Australian writer. Lurie’s vast body of work included novels, short stories, non-fiction collections and children’s books, among them his first comic novel Rappaport (Hodder), his autobiography Whole Life (Penguin) and a book voted by Australian schoolchildren as their favourite, The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race (Puffin).
‘Lurie’s self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provided much of the material for his fiction. Lurie was best known for his short stories. He was published in many prestigious magazines including The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly, Punch, The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, Transatlantic Review, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Quadrant and Westerly.
‘Lurie was the recipient of the Patrick White Award in 2006. His most recent title was Hergesheimer in the Present Tense (Hybrid) in 2014, a collection of 30 stories about an elderly author whose experiences just happen to mimic (and exaggerate) incidents and preoccupations from the life of the author. In 2008 Hybrid also published To Light Attained, a novel about the suicide of his daughter.’
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