Another
Country- Writers in Detention was a landmark
anthology of writings by refugees detained in camps in Australia, edited by
award-winning authors, Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally, and published by Sydney
PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists) and Halstead Press in Sydney in 2004.
Now Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally (author
of Schindler’s Ark turned into the
Hollywood movie Schindler’s List)
have edited another anthology of writings by well-known Australian authors, on
refugees, which is designed to raise public awareness of the new crisis in
Australian refugee policies and the appalling conditions that are once again
facing those poor legal refugees held in detention camps run by the Australian
Liberal Government on the islands of Manus, Nauru and Christmas Island.
A Country Too Far: Writings On Asylum
Seekers was published in October by Penguin and is available in eBook and print
book editions. It contains stories and poems by a raft of Australian authors
including Christos Tsiolkas, Gail Jones, Anna Funder, and Rosie Scott and Thomas
Keneally amongst many others- including refugee writers.
The Daily Fugue published an exclusive interview with Rosie Scott by Ruth Skilbeck on the issues of refugee policy and
offshore detention, just over two years ago. Ruth also interviewed Rosie Scott in 2008 on the anthology Another Country and her work with PEN, for articles published in peer reviewed academic journals- Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and Pacific Journalism Review.
These are listed below.
Ruth Skilbeck 15/11/2013
Skilbeck, Ruth (2010), ‘Exiled writers, Human Rights, and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis’, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 280-296
-- -- (2009).'Arts Journalism and Exiled Writers: A Case Study of Fugal, Reflexive Practice'. Pacific Journalism Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, Oct 2009: 132-151
-- -- (2011) 'Refugee children and the Malaysia Solution: "a very scary proposition,"' The Daily Fugue, August 7, 2011.
