Robert Dessaix - Australian Book Review.

O n the day that Robert Dessaix first came face to face with his birth mother, he was already in his mid-forties. Adopted as a newborn baby in 1944 by a couple who loved and cared for him through his childhood and adolescence, he had grown up in Sydney, had invented his own imaginary land with its own language, had been married for twelve years, divorced, negotiated a reorientation of his.

New memoir: Robert Dessaix. He had come from Tasmania for a reading at NIDA of his play A Mad Affair, which imagines what happens during an hour-long encounter between the Russian writer Turgenev.

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This morning an inspiring talk by Hobart-based novelist, essayist, and broadcaster Robert Dessaix. Robert spoke recently at the Examined Life series at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, where.

Robert Dessaix is one of Australia's most exquisite writers, both of fiction and non-fiction, and he has a particular gift for writing personal essays.

A response to Robert Dessaix’s essay Russia:the End of an Affair. I have nothing informed to write as I have only been studying Russian culture and language (in a full time and academic sense) for about seven months. I am at the University of Western Australia in Perth doing a PhD in Anthropology.

At times, though, Dessaix is wide of the mark. Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Lamb are paraded as exemplary exponents of the essay but puzzling assertions about the lack of female essayists.

KYD Writers’ Workshop and Extraordinary Routines bring you a monthly column delving into the routines, writing habits, rituals, challenges and triumphs of a diversity of Australian writers. In this edition, award-winning novelist and essayist Robert Dessaix shares a typical day and his thoughts on imagining an ideal reader, not getting bored with yourself, and the importance of the afternoon.

Robert Dessaix is a novelist, essayist and journalist. He is the author of A Mother’s Disgrace, Corfu and Twilight of Love.

Read Robert Dessaix’s essay Russia: the End of an Affair. Here in Europe the cold winds of formula-based funding for Universities have also been felt and many small subjects have come under threat of closure, much like Russian at ANU.

Those of us who are fortunate enough to have listened to the ABC broadcasts by Robert Dessaix will recognize the voice as soon as they begin to read As I Was Saying. It is not just the authorial voice, but also the memory of the mellifluous tones of one who makes the listener feel that he or she is the only one who matters. For me the content was always beguiling and the choice of phrase.

Robert Dessaix. Robert Dessaix is a writer of fiction, autobiography and the occasional essay. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National.