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**David Ireland** was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south- western Sydney. He has lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time writer. Ireland started out writing poetry and drama but then turned to fiction. His first novel, _The Chantic Bird_ , was published in 1968. In the next decade he published five further novels, three of which won the Miles Franklin Award: _The Unknown Industrial Prisoner_ , _The Glass Canoe_ and _A Woman of the Future_. David Ireland was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1981. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel _Archimedes and the Seagle_. **Kate Jennings** is a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Her novels, _Snake_ and _Moral Hazard_ , were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Born in rural New South Wales, she has lived in New York since 1979. Her most recent book is _Trouble: Evolution of a Radical_.