Books I'd Like to Own: Asian

Early 20th Century Japanese Ads

Asian Literature:

Authors:

1. Abe Kōbō (1924-1993)
2. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
3. Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996)
4. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
5. Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
6. Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
7. Murakami Haruki (1949- )
8. Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)
9. Ōe Kenzaburō (1935- )
10. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)
11. Yoshimoto Banana (1964- )

Donald Keene: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (2003)

Donald Keene. Five Modern Japanese Novelists: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kōbō, Shiba Ryōtarō. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

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Books I own are marked in bold:

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Kōbō Abe (2013)

Abe Kimifusa ['Abe Kōbō'] (1924-1993)

Novels:


1. At the Guidepost at the End of the Road [Owarishi michi no shirube ni] (1948)
2. Starving Unions [Kiga doumei] (1954)
3. Beasts Head for Home [Kemono tachi wa kokyou wo mezasu]. Trans. Richard F. Calichman, 2017 (1957)
4. Inter Ice Age 4 [Dai yon kan pyouki]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1970 (1959)
5. Stony Eyes [Ishi no me] (1960)
6. The Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1964 (1962)
   • The Woman in the Dunes. 1962. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. Drawings by Machi Abé. 1964. New York: Vintage, 1972.
7. The Face of Another [Tanin no kao]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1966 (1964)
   • The Face of Another. 1964. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
8. The Double of Human Being [Ningen sokkuri] (1966)
9. The Ruined Map [Moetsukita chizu]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1968 (1967)
   • The Ruined Map: A Novel. 1967. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1969. Vintage International. New York: Random House, Inc., 2001.
10. The Box Man [Hako otoko]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1974 (1973)
    • The Box Man. 1973. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1974. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1975.
11. Secret Rendezvous [Mikkai]. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1979 (1977)
12. The Ark Sakura [Hakobune sakura maru]. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1988 (1984)
13. Kangaroo Notebook [Kangaruu noto]. 1973-77. Trans. Maryellen Toman Mori, 1996 (1991)
14. The Flying Man [Tobu otoko] (1994)

Short stories:


15. The Dream Escape [Yume no toubou] (1949)
16. The Red Cocoon [Akai mayu]. Trans. Lane Dunlop, 1986 (1950)
17. The Flood [Kouzui]. Trans. Lane Dunlop, 1986 (1950)
18. The Magic Chalk [Mahou no chouku]. Trans. Alison Kibrick, 1993 (1951)
19. The Starving Skin [Ueta hihu] (1951)
20. The underwater city [Suichu toshi] (1952)
21. The Stick [Bou]. Trans. Lane Dunlop, 1986 (1950)
22. Inventions by No. R62 [R62 gou no hatumei] (1956)
23. The Egg of Pb [Namari no tamago] (1957)
24. Four stories. Trans. Andrew Horvat (1973)
    1. The deaf girl [Oshimusume] (1949)
    2. The dog [Inu] (1954)
    3. The dream soldier [Yume no heishi] (1957)
    4. The cliff of time [Toki no gake] (1964)
25. Beyond the Curve. Trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter (1991)
    1. Dendrocacalia [Dendorokakariya] (1949)
    2. The Wall ― The Crime of S. Karma [Kabe―S・Karuma shi no hanzai] (1951)
    3. Intruders [Chinnyusha] (1951)
    4. The Life of a Poet [Shijin no Shougai] (1951)
    5. Noah's Ark [Noa no hakobune] (1952)
    6. Record of a Transformation [Henkei no kiroku] (1954)
    7. Beguiled [Yuwakusha] (1957)
    8. The Dream Soldier [Yume no heishi] (1957)
    9. The Special Envoy [Shisha] (1958)
    10. The Bet [Kake] (1960)
    11. An Irrelevant Death [Mukankei na shi] (1961)
    12. Beyond the Curve [Kabu no mukou] (1966)


Plays:


26. The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays. Trans. Donald Keene (1973)
    1. The Cliff of Time [Jikan no gake]
    2. Suitcase [Sūtsukēsu]
    3. The Man Who Turned Into A Stick [Bou ni natta otoko] (1957)
27. Three Plays by Kōbō Abe. Trans. Donald Keene (1994)
    1. The Ghost Is Here [Yuurei wa koko ni iru] (1958)
    2. Involuntary Homicide [Mihitsu no koi] (1971)
    3. Green Stockings [Midori iro no sutokkingu] (1974)
28. You, Too, Are Guilty [Omae nimo tsumi ga aru]. Trans. Ted T. Takaya (1965)
29. Friends [Tomodachi]. Trans. Donald Keene (1967)
30. Takeaki Enomoto [Enomoto Takeaki]. Trans. Enomoto Buyo (1967)
31. Ue (Slave Hunting) / The Animal Hunter [Uē (Shin dorei gari)]. Trans. James R. Brandon (1975)

Non-fiction:


32. The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kōbō. Trans. Richard Calichman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

Poetry:


33. Poems of an Unknown Poet [Mumei shishu] (1947)
34. Kidnap [Hito sarai] (1978)

After a burst of fame in the 1960s and 70s, Abe largely sank from sight in the English-speaking world. More recently he's begun to regain his place among twentieth century masters of SF and the Fantastic, though.

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Osamu Dazai (1948)

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)

Novels:


1. A Standard-bearer of the Twentieth Century [Nijusseiki Kishu] (1937)
2. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji [Fugaku Hyakkei] (1939)
3. Schoolgirl [Joseito] (1939)
   • Schoolgirl. Trans. Allison Markin Powell. New York: One Peace Books, 2011.
4. Women's Duel [Onna no Kettō] (1940)
5. An Urgent Appeal [Kakekomi Uttae] (1940)
6. Run, Melos! [Hashire Merosu] (1940)
7. New Hamlet [Shin-Hamuretto] (1941)
8. Right and Smile [Seigi to Bisho] (1942)
9. Minister of the Right Sanetomo [Udaijin Sanetomo] (1943)
10. Tsugaru (1944)
    • Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp - Reminiscences. 1944. Trans. James Westerhoven. 1985. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1987.
11. Pandora's Box [Pandora no Hako] (1945)
12. A farewell with regret [Sekibetsu] (1945)
13. Villon's Wife [Viyon No Tsuma] (1947)
14. The Setting Sun [Shayō] (1947)
    • The Setting Sun. 1947. Trans. Donald Keene. 1950. London: Peter Owen, 1958.
15. A Cherry [Ōtō] (1948)
16. No Longer Human [Ningen Shikkaku] [aka A Shameful Life] (1948)
    • No Longer Human. 1948. Trans. Donald Keene. 1958. New York: New Directions, 1973.
    • A Shameful Life: Ningen Shikkaku. Trans. Mark Gibeau. Berkeley, Stone Bridge Press, 2018.
17. Good-Bye [Guddo-bai] (1948)

Stories:


18. Memories [Omoide] (1933)
19. Flowers of Buffoonery [Dōke no Hana] (1935)
20. False Spring [Kyokō no Haru] (1936)
21. The Late Years [Bannen] (1936)
22. A New Version of Countries' Tales [Shinshaku Shokoku Banashi] (1945)
23. Fairy Tales [Otogizōshi] (1945)
    • Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu. Trans. Ralph F. McCarthy. Fukuoka, Kurodahan Press, 2011.
24. Selected Stories and Sketches. Trans. James O’Brien. Ithaca, New York, China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1983.
25. Run, Melos! and Other Stories. Trans. Ralph F. McCarthy. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1988.
26. Crackling Mountain and other stories. Trans. James O’Brien. Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1989.
27. Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance. Trans. Ralph F. McCarthy. Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International, 1993.
28. Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu. Trans. Ralph F. McCarthy. Fukuoka, Kurodahan Press, 2012.
29. Wish Fulfilled. Trans. Reiko Seri & Doc Kane. Kobe, Japan, Maplopo, 2019.

Plays:


30. Winter's firework [Fuyu no Hanabi] Play (1946)

Non-fiction:


31. I heard it in this way [Nyozegamon] (1948)

One of the first Japanese novelists to make a splash in the West after the Second World War. He was subsequently overtaken by Mishima, Abe, and various others, but his work remains vital and interesting.

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Shūsaku Endō (1954)

Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996)

Novels:


1. The Sea and Poison (1957)
   • The Sea and Poison. 1958. Trans. Michael Gallagher. London: Peter Owen, 1972.
2. Wonderful Fool (1959)
   • Wonderful Fool. 1959. Trans. Francis Mathy. 1974. London: Quartet Books Limited, 1979.
3. Stained Glass Elegies. Trans. 1984. (1959)
4. Volcano (1960)
5. The Girl I Left Behind (1964)
6. Silence (1966)
   • Silence. 1967. Trans. William Johnston. 1969. London: Quartet Books Limited, 1984.
7. Kuronbō (1971)
8. Life of Jesus (1973)
9. When I Whistle (1974)
10. Marie Antoinette (1979)
11. The Samurai (1980)
    • The Samurai. 1980. Trans. Van C. Gessel. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
12. Kiku's Prayer (1982)
13. Scandal (1986))
    • Scandal. 1986. Trans. Van C. Gessel. 1988. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
14. Deep River (1993)

Short Stories & Novellas:


15. To Aden [Aden made] (1954)
16. White Man (1955)
17. Yellow Man (1955)
18. Foreign Studies [Ryūgaku] (1965)
    • Foreign Studies. 1965. Trans. Mark Williams. 1989. Sceptre. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1990.
19. Banks of the Dead Sea (1973)
20. The Final Martyrs: 11 short stories, 1959-1985. Trans. 2008.

Plays:


21. The Golden Country (1966)

Non-fiction:


22. Novels Loved by Me & Search for the Real Me (1985)

I didn't really much like Scorsese's film of Silence, but I do like Endo's writing generally - especially the novel The Girl I Left Behind, which I actually read in French (La fille que j'ai abandonnée) because it was lent to me by a girl from New Caledonia sometime in the late 1990s.

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Frederick Gutekunst: Lafcadio Hearn (1889)

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)

America & the West Indies:


1. La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885)
2. "Gombo Zhèbes": A Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects (1885)
3. Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889)
4. Youma, the Story of a West-Indian Slave (1889)
5. Two Years in the French West Indies (1890)

Japan:


6. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894)
7. Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895)
8. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896)
   • Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. 1896. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1977.
9. Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897)
10. The Boy who Drew Cats (1897)
11. Exotics and Retrospectives (1898)
12. Japanese Fairy Tales (1898)
13. In Ghostly Japan (1899)
    • In Ghostly Japan. 1899. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
14. Shadowings (1900)
15. Japanese Lyrics (1900)
16. A Japanese Miscellany (1901)
17. Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902)
18. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
    • Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. 1904. The Travellers’ Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.
19. Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904)
20. The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories (1905)

Posthumous:


21. Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin et al. (1907)
22. Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist (1911)
23. Interpretations of Literature (1915)
24. Karma (1918)
25. On Reading in Relation to Literature (1921)
26. Creole Sketches (1924)
27. Lectures on Shakespeare (1928)
28. Insect-musicians and other stories and sketches (1929)
29. Japan's Religions: Shinto and Buddhism (1966)
30. Books and Habits; from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn (1968)
31. Writings from Japan: An Anthology (1984)
    • Writings from Japan: An Anthology. Ed. Francis King. Penguin Travel Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
32. Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials (2002)
33. Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People (2007)
34. American Writings (Library of America, 2009): Some Chinese Ghosts | Chita | Two Years in the French West Indies | Youma | selected journalism and letters
35. Insect Literature (2015)
36. Japanese Ghost Stories. Ed. Paul Murray (2019)
37. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn. Ed. Andrei Codrescu (2019)

Translations &c.:


38. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances, by Théophile Gautier (1882)
39. Stray Leaves From Strange Literature; Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheili, Baital Pachisi, Mahabharata, Pantchantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. (1884)
40. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887)
41. Tales from Théophile Gautier (1888)
42. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (1890)
43. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert (1910)
44. Stories from Emile Zola (1935)
45. The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (1964)

Secondary:


46. Elizabeth Bisland. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. 2 vols. New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906.
47. Jonathan Cott. Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Knopf, 1990.
48. Carl Dawson. Lafcadio Hearn and the Vision of Japan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
49. Paul Murray. A Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn. Tokyo: Japan Library, 1993.

A great favourite of lovers of fin-de-siècle decadence, such as H. P. Lovecraft and his circle, Irish-Greek-American writer Lafcadio Hearn turns out still to be surprisingly popular in his adopted country, Japan.

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Yasunari Kawabata

Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)

Fiction:


1. The Dancing Girl of Izu [Izu no odoriko] (1926)
   • [with Inoue Yasushi]. The Izu Dancer and Other Stories. 1926. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Leon Pica. 1954 & 1965. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1983.
2. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa [Asakusa kurenaidan]. Trans. 2005 (1930)
3. Snow Country [Yukiguni] (1935-37, 1947)
   • Snow Country / Thousand Cranes. 1935-37 & 1949-52. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956 & 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
4. The Master of Go [Meijin] (1951-54)
   • The Master of Go. 1951-54. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1972. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
5. Thousand Cranes [Senbazuru] (1949-52)
   • Snow Country / Thousand Cranes. 1935-37 & 1949-52. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956 & 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
6. The Sound of the Mountain [Yama no oto] (1949-54)
   • The Sound of the Mountain. 1949-54. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1970. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
7. The Lake [Mizuumi] (1954)
   • The Lake. 1954. Trans. Reiko Tsukimura. 1974. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1980.
8. The House of the Sleeping Beauties [Nemureru bijo] (1961)
   • House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories. 1961. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. Introduction by Yukio Mishima. London: The Quadriga Press / Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1969.
   • House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. Introduction by Mishima Yukio. 1969. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1982.
9. The Old Capital [Koto]. Trans. 1987 (1962)
10. Beauty and Sadness [Utsukushisa to kanashimi to] (1964)
    • Beauty and Sadness. 1964. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
11. One Arm [Kataude]. Trans. 1969 (1964)
12. Dandelions [Tanpopo]. Trans. 2017 (1964-68, 1972)
13. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories [Tanagokoro no shōsetsu] (1932-72)
    • Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Trans. Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holme. 1988. Picador Classics. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1989.

Non-fiction:


14. Japan, The Beautiful, and Myself. 1968. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1969. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.

Yasunari Kawabata is, I suppose, the epitome of most people's idea of a classic Japanese novelist: concise, spare, weighty, and intensely conscious of the aesthetic effect of every word he writes. He's a lot more interesting than that clichéd reading would suggest, however.

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Yukio Mishima (1956)

Hiraoka Kimitake [Mishima Yukio] (1925-1970)

Novels:


1. Thieves [Tōzoku] (1947-1948)
2. Confessions of a Mask [Kamen no Kokuhaku] (1949)
   • Confessions of a Mask. 1948. Trans. Meredith Weatherby. 1958. London: Peter Owen, 1960.
3. Thirst for Love [Ai no Kawaki] (1950)
   • Thirst for Love. 1950. Trans. Alfred H. Marks. 1969. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
4. Pure White Nights [Junpaku no Yoru] (1950)
5. The Age of Blue [Ao no Jidai] (1950)
6. Forbidden Colors [Kinjiki] (1951-1953)
   • Forbidden Colours. 1953. Trans. Alfred H. Marks. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
7. The Sound of Waves [Shiosai] (1954)
   • The Sound of Waves. 1954. Trans. Meredith Weatherby. Drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. 1956. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957.
8. The Sunken Waterfall [Shizumeru Taki] (1955)
9. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [Kinkaku-ji] (1956)
   • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. 1956. Trans. Ivan Morris. Introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross. Drawings by Fumi Komatsu. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959.
10. Kyoko's House [Kyōko no Ie] (1959)
11. After the Banquet [Utage no Ato] (1960)
    • After the Banquet. 1960. Trans. Donald Keene. 1963. A Berkley Medallion Book. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1971.
12. The Frolic of the Beasts [Kemono no Tawamure] (1961)
    • The Frolic of the Beasts. 1961. Trans. Andrew Clare. Vintage International. New York: Vintage Books, 2018.
13. A Beautiful Star [Utsukushii Hoshi]. Trans. Stephen Dodd, 2021 (1962)
14. The School of Flesh [Nikutai no Gakkō] (1963)
15. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea [Gogo no Eikō] (1963)
    • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. 1963. Trans. John Nathan. 1965. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
16. Silk and Insight [Kinu to Meisatsu]. Trans. Hiroaki Sato, 1998 (1964)
17. Life for Sale [Inochi Urimasu]. Trans. Stephen Dodd , 2019 (1968)
18. The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy [Hōjō no Umi] (1965–1971)
    1. Spring Snow [Haru no Yuki]. Trans. Michael Gallagher, 1972 (1965-1967)
    2. Runaway Horses [Honba]. Trans. Michael Gallagher, 1973 (1967-1968)
    3. The Temple of Dawn [Akatsuki no Tera]. Trans. E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia S. Seigle, 1973 (1968-1970)
    4. The Decay of the Angel [Tennin Gosui]. Trans. Edward Seidensticker, 1974 (1970-1971)
    • The Sea of Fertility: Spring Snow; Runaway Horses; The Temple of Dawn; The Decay of the Angel. 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971. Trans. Michael Gallagher, E. Dale Saunders & Cecelia Sagawa Seigle, Edward G. Seidensticker. 1972, 1973, 1973, 1975. Penguin Modern Classics. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.

Short Stories:


19. Forest in Full Bloom [Hanazakari no Mori]. Trans. Andrew Rankin, 2000 (1941)
20. The Circus [Sākasu]. Trans. Andrew Rankin, 1999 (1948)
21. The Boy Who Wrote Poetry [Shi o Kaku Shōnen]. Trans. Ian H. Levy, 1977 (1954)
22. Star [Sutā]. Trans. Sam Bett, 2019 (1960)
23. Acts of Worship [Mikumano Mōde]. Trans. John Bester, 1995 (1965)
24. The Peacocks [Kujaku]. Trans. Andrew Rankin, 1999 (1965)
25. The Voices of the Heroic Dead [Eirei no Koe] (1966)
26. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker, Ivan Morris, Donald Keene, Geoffrey W. Sargent (1966)
    1. Death in Midsummer [Manatsu no Shi] (1952)
    2. Three Million Yen
    3. Thermos Flasks
    4. The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love
    5. The Seven Bridges
    6. Patriotism [Yūkoku] (1961)
    7. Dōjōji Temple [Dōjōji] Noh (1957)
    8. Onnagata
    9. The Pearl
    10. Swaddling Clothes
    • Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Trans Donald Keene, Ivan Morris, Geoffrey W. Sargent, & Edward G. Seidensticker, 1966. London: Secker & Warburg, 1967.

Plays:


27. The Sardine Seller's Net of Love [Iwashi Uri Koi Hikiami] Kabuki (1954)
28. The Blush on the White Hibiscus Blossom: Lady Fuyo and the True Account of the Ōuchi Clan [Fuyō no Tsuyu Ōuchi Jikki] Kabuki (1955)
29. Rokumeikan [Rokumeikan]. Trans. Hiroaki Sato, 2002 (1956)
30. Five Modern Noh Plays [Kindai Nogaku-shū]. Trans. Donald Keene (1957)
    1. Komachi at the Gravepost [Sotoba Komachi] (1952)
    2. The Damask Drum [Aya no Tsuzumi] (1951)
    3. The Magic Pillow [Kantan] (1950)
    4. The Waiting Lady with the Fan [Hanjo] (1955)
    5. The Lady Aoi [Aoi no Ue] (1954)
31. Yuya [Yuya] Noh (1959)
32. The Blind Young Man [Yoroboshi] Noh (1960)
33. The Black Lizard [Kuro Tokage]. Trans. Mark Oshima , 2007 (1961)
34. Madame de Sade [Sado Kōshaku Fujin]. Trans. Donald Keene, 1967 (1965)
    • Madame de Sade: A Play. 1965. Trans. Donald Keene. Photographs by Koichi Yamada. 1967. International Play Series, 1. London: Peter Owen, 1968.
35. The Decline and Fall of The Suzaku [Suzaku-ke no Metsubō]. Trans. Hiroaki Sato, 2002 (1967)
36. My Friend Hitler [Waga Tomo Hittorā]. Trans. Hiroaki Sato, 2002 (1968)
37. A Wonder Tale: The Moonbow or Half Moon (like a Bow and arrow setting up): The Adventures of Tametomo [Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki] Kabuki (1969)
38. The Terrace of The Leper King [Raiō no Terasu]. Trans. Hiroaki Sato, 2002 (1969)

Non-fiction:


39. The Cup of Apollo [Aporo no Sakazuki] (1952)
40. Lectures on Immoral Education [Fudōtoku Kyōiku Kōza] (1958-59)
41. My Wandering Period [Watashi no Henreki Jidai] (1963)
42. Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death [Taiyō to Tetsu]. Trans. John Bester, 1970 (1965-68)
43. Way of the Samurai [Hagakure Nyūmon]. [aka On Hagakure]. Trans. Kathryn Sparling, 1977 (1967)
    • On Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan. 1967. Trans. Kathryn Spurling. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1977.
44. The Defense of the Culture [Bunka Bōei-ron] (1968)
45. Wang Yangming Thought as Revolutionary Philosophy [Kakumei tetsugaku toshiteno Yomegaku]. Trans. Harris I. Martin, 1971 (1970)

Secondary:


46. Stokes, Henry Scott. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.

Like him or loathe him, his work is difficult to ignore. A great deal was made of how 'unrepresentative' he was of contemporary Japanese culture after his dramatic suicide, but I'm not so sure, having read so much more about the pre-war era since then.

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Haruki Murakami (2009)

Murakami Haruki (1949- )

Novels:


1. Hear the Wind Sing [Kaze no uta o kike] (1979)
   • Hear the Wind Sing. 1979. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1987. Trilogy of the Rat, 1. Tokyo: Kodansha International, n.d.
   • Included in: Wind Pinball. Two Novels: Hear the Wind Sing / Pinball, 1973. 1979 & 1980. Trans. Ted Goossen. Trilogy of the Rat, 1 & 2. Harvill Secker. London: Vintage Books, 2015.
2. Pinball, 1973 [1973-nen no pinbōru] (1980)
   • Pinball, 1973. 1980. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1985. Trilogy of the Rat, 2. Tokyo: Kodansha International, n.d.
   • Included in: Wind Pinball. Two Novels: Hear the Wind Sing / Pinball, 1973. 1979 & 1980. Trans. Ted Goossen. Trilogy of the Rat, 1 & 2. Harvill Secker. London: Vintage Books, 2015.
3. A Wild Sheep Chase [Hitsuji o meguru bōken] (1982)
   • A Wild Sheep Chase. 1982. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1989. Trilogy of the Rat, 3. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
4. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [Sekai no owari to Hādo-boirudo Wandārando] (1985)
   • Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. 1985. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1991. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
5. Norwegian Wood [Noruwei no mori]. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum, 1989 (1987)
   • Norwegian Wood. 1987. Trans. Jay Rubin. 2 vols. London: The Harvill Press, 2000.
6. Dance Dance Dance [Dansu dansu dansu] (1988)
   • Dance Dance Dance. 1988. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1994. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
7. South of the Border, West of the Sun [Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi] (1992)
   • South of the Border, West of the Sun. 1992. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 1998. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle [Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru] (1994–1995)
   • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 1994-95. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: The Harvill Press, 1999.
9. Sputnik Sweetheart [Supūtoniku no koibito] (1999)
   • Sputnik Sweetheart. 1999. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2001. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2002.
10. Kafka on the Shore [Umibe no Kafuka] (2002)
    • Kafka on the Shore. 2002. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2003. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2005.
11. After Dark [Afutā dāku] (2004)
    • After Dark. 2004. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: Harvill Secker, 2007.
12. 1Q84 [Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon] (2009–2010)
    • 1Q84. Books 1 & 2. 2009. Trans. Jay Rubin. Book 3. 2010. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Borzoi Books. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: Random House, Inc., 2011.
13. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage [Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi] (2013)
    • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. 2013. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Harvill Secker. London: Random House, 2014.
14. Killing Commendatore [Kishidanchō-goroshi] (2017)
    • Killing Commendatore. 2017. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen. 2018. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2019.

Short stories:


15. Yume de Aimashou (1981)
16. The Elephant Vanishes [Zō no shōmetsu]: 17 stories, 1980–1991 (1993)
    • The Elephant Vanishes. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum & Jay Rubin. 1993. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
17. After the Quake [Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru]: 6 stories, 1999–2000 (2000)
    • after the quake. 2000. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: The Harvill Press, 2002.
18. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman [Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna]: 24 stories, 1980–2005 (2005)
    • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Jay Rubin. 2005. London: Harvill Secker, 2006.
19. The Strange Library [Fushigi na toshokan]: children's novella, revised from his 1982 short story 'Toshokan kitan' (2005)
    • The Strange Library. 2008. Trans. Ted Goossen. Harvill Secker. London: Penguin Random House Company, 2014.
20. Men Without Women [Onna no inai otokotachi]: 7 stories, 2013–2014. Trans. 2017 (2014)
    • Men Without Women. 2014. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen. 2017. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2018.
21. First Person Singular [Ichininshō Tansū]: 8 stories, 2018–2020. Trans. 2021 (2020)
    • First Person Singular: Stories. 2020. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2021. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2022.
    
    

Non-fiction:


22. Walk, Don't Run [Wōku donto ran: Murakami Ryū vs Murakami Haruki] (1981)
23. Rain, Burning Sun (Come Rain or Come Shine) [Uten Enten] (1990)
24. Portrait in Jazz [Pōtoreito in jazu] (1997)
25. Underground [Andāguraundo] (1997)
26. Underground 2 [Yakusoku sareta basho de] (1998)
    • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. 1997-98. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum & Philip Gabriel. 2000. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2002.
27. Portrait in Jazz 2 [Pōtoreito in jazu 2] (2001)
28. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running [Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto] (2007)
    • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2007. London: Harvill Secker, 2008.
29. It Ain't Got that Swing (If It Don't Mean a Thing) [Imi ga nakereba suingu wa nai] (2008)
30. Novelist as a profession [Shokugyō to shite no shōsetsuka] (2015)
31. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa. Trans. 2016 (2011)
32. Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai. Trans. 2016 (1996)
33. What Is There To Do In Laos? [Raos ni ittai nani ga aru to iun desuka?] (2015)
34. Abandoning a Cat: Memories of My Father [Neko o suteru chichioya ni tsuite kataru toki] (2019)

Edited:


35. Birthday Stories [Bāsudei sutōrīzu] (2002)
    • Birthday Stories. 2002. Trans. Jay Rubin. 2004. Vintage. London: Random House, 2006.

Secondary:


36. Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. 2003. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2005.

What can one say about Murakami? His early work is unsettlingly brilliant, I think. I've found it harder to warm to 1Q84 and his later novels, but that may be more my problem than his.

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Natsume Sōseki (1912)

Natsume Kinnosuke [Natsume Sōseki] (1867-1916)

Fiction:


1. I Am a Cat [Wagahai wa Neko dearu] (1905)
   • I am a Cat: Three Volumes in One. 1905-07. Trans. Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson. 1972, 1979, 1986. Tuttle Publishing. Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont / Singapore: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., 2002.
2. The Tower of London [Rondon Tō]. Trans. 2004 (1905)
3. Kairo-kō [Kairo-kō] (1905)
4. Botchan [Botchan] (1906)
5. The Three-Cornered World [Kusamakura] [aka The Grass Pillow] (1906)
   • The Three-Cornered World. 1906. Trans. Alan Tuney. 1965. An Arena Book. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1984.
6. The Heredity of Taste [Shumi no Iden] (1906)
7. The 210th Day [Nihyaku-tōka]. Trans. 2011 (1906)
8. Nowaki [Nowaki]. Trans. 2011 (1907)
9. The Poppy [Gubijinsō [aka Field Poppy] (1907)
10. The Miner [Kōfu] (1908)
11. Ten Nights of Dreams [Yume Jū-ya] (1908)
12. Sanshirō [Sanshirō] (1908)
13. And Then [Sorekara] (1909)
14. The Gate [Mon] (1910)
    • The Gate. 1910. Trans. William F. Sibley. Introduction by Pico Iyer. New York Review Books Classics. New York: nyrb, 2013.
    
    
15. Spring Miscellany [Eijitsu shōhin] [aka Long (Spring) Days, Small Pieces]. Trans. 2005 (1910)
16. To the Spring Equinox and Beyond [Higan Sugi Made] (1912)
17. The Wayfarer [Kōjin] (1912)
    • The Wayfarer [Kōjin]. 1912-13. Trans. Beongcheon Yu. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967.
18. Kokoro [Kokoro] (1914)
    • Kokoro. 1914. Trans. Ineko Kondo. 1941. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1970.
    • Kokoro. 1914. Trans. Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2010.
19. Grass on the Wayside [Michikusa] (1915)
20. Inside My Glass Doors [Garasu Do no Uchi]. Trans. 2002 (1915)
21. Light and Darkness [Meian] (1916)

Non-fiction:


22. Recollections [Omoidasu Koto nado] [aka Random Memories]. Trans. Maria Flutsch, 1997 (1910)
23. My Individualism [Watakushi no Kojin Shugi] (1914)

I am a Cat is certainly a classic. For the rest, I'm looking forward to reading more of his work over time.

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Kenzaburō Ōe (2012)

Ōe Kenzaburō (1935- )

Novels:


1. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids [Memushiri kouchi] (1958)
   • Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids. 1958. Trans. Paul St John Mackintosh & Maki Sugiyama. 1995. London: Picador, 1996.
2. Seventeen [Sevuntīn]. Trans. Luk Van Haute (1961)
3. Cry [Sakebigoe] (1963)
4. A Personal Matter [Kojinteki na taiken]. Trans. John Nathan (1964)
5. The Silent Cry [Man'en gan'nen no futtobōru] [aka Football in the first year of the Manen era (AD 1860)] (1967)
   • The Silent Cry. 1967. Trans. John Bester. 1974. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
6. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness [Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo]. Trans. 1977 (1969)
7. The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness [Mizukara waga namida wo nuguitamau hi]. Trans. 1977 (1972)
8. The Flood Invades My Spirit [Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi] (1973)
9. The Pinch Runner Memorandum [Pinchi ran'nā chōsho]. Trans. Michiko N. Wilson (1976)
10. The Game of Contemporaneity [Dojidai gemu] (1979)
11. Sometimes the Heart of the Turtle [Gendai gemu] (1980)
12. Women Listening to the "Rain Tree" [Rein tsurī wo kiku on'natachi] (1982)
13. Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! [Atarashii hito yo, mezame yo]. Trans. John Nathan (1983)
14. How Do We Kill the Tree? [Ikani ki wo korosu ka] (1984)
15. Bitten by the Hippopotamus [Kaba ni kamareru] (1985)
16. M/T and the Narrative About the Marvels of the Forest [M/T to mori no fushigi no monogatari] (1986)
17. Letters for Nostalgic Years [Natsukashī tosi eno tegami] (1987)
18. The Army of Quilp [Kirupu no gundan] (1988)
19. An Echo of Heaven [Jinsei no shinseki] [aka Relatives of life]. Trans. Margaret Mitsutani (1989)
20. The Tower of Treatment [Chiryou tou] (1990)
21. A Quiet Life [Shizuka-na seikatsu]. Trans. Kunioki Yanagishita & William Wetherall (1990)
22. The Tower of Treatment and the Planet [Chiryou tou wakusei] (1991)
23. The Time that I Was Really Young [Boku ga hontou ni wakakatta koro] (1992)
24. Until the Savior Gets Socked ['Sukuinushi' ga nagurareru made] The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy I [Moeagaru midori no ki dai ichi bu](1993)
25. Vacillating [Yureugoku (Vashirēshon)] The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy II [Moeagaru midori no ki dai ni bu](1994)
26. On the Great Day [Ōinaru hi ni] The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy III [Moeagaru midori no ki dai san bu] (1995)
27. Somersault [Chūgaeri] (1999)
    • Somersault. 1999. Trans. Philip Gabriel. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
28. The Changeling [Torikae ko (Chenjiringu)]. Trans. Deborah Boehm (2000)
29. The Infant with a Melancholic Face [Ureigao no dōji] (2002)
30. The Children of 200 Years [Nihyaku nen no kodomo] (2003)
31. Farewell, My Books! [Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!] (2005)
32. The Beautiful Annabel Lee was Chilled and Killed [Routashi Anaberu rī souke dachitu mimakaritu] (2007)
33. Death by Water [Suishi]. Trans. Deborah Boehm (2009)
34. In Late Style [Bannen Youshiki shū (In Reito Sutairu)] (2013)

Short Stories:


35. The Strange Work [Kimyou na shigoto] (1957)
36. Lavish Are The Dead [Shisha no ogori] (1957)
37. Someone Else's Feet [Tanin no ashi] (1957)
38. The Catch [Shiiku]. Trans. 1981 (1957)
39. Leap before you look [Miru mae ni tobe] (1958)
40. Sexual Humans [Seiteki Ningen] [aka J]. Trans. Luk Van Haute (1963)
41. Aghwee the Sky Monster [Sora no kaibutsu Aguī] (1964)

Non-fiction:


42. The Solemn Rope-walking [Genshuku na tsunawatari] (1964)
43. Hiroshima Notes [Hiroshima noto]. Trans. David L. Swain, Toshi Yonezawa, 1965 (1964)
44. Continuous will [Jizoku suru kokorozashi] (1968)
45. A Human Being as a fragile article [Kowaremono toshiteno ningen] (1970)
46. Imagination of the Atomic Age [Kakujidai no sozouryoku] (1970)
47. Okinawa Notes [Okinawa nōto] (1970)
48. The Day Whales Vanish [Kujira no shimetsu suru hi] (1972)
49. The Post-war Times as Contemporaries [Doujidai toshiteno sengo] (1973)
50. 'The Last Novel' ['Saigo no syousetu'] (1988)
51. For the New Literature [Atarashii bungaku no tame ni] (1988)
52. Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures [Aimai na Nihon no watashi] (1995)
53. A Healing Family [Kaifuku suru kazoku]. Trans. Stephen Snyder. Illustrated by Yukari Oe (1995)
54. [with Yukari Oe] Under the "Tree of Mine" ['Jibun no ki' no shita de] (2001)
55. [with Yukari Oe] Toward the "New Man" ['Atarashii hito' no hou he] (2003)

I can't claim to know too much about Oe. He sounds like one of the most interesting contemporary Japanese novelists, though.

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1951)

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)

Novels & Novellas:


1. Devils in Daylight [Hakuchū Kigo]. Trans. J. Keith Vincent, 2017 (1918)
2. Naomi [Chijin no ai]. [aka A Fool's Love] (1924)
   • Naomi. 1924. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers. 1986. London: Pavanne, 1987.
3. In Black and White. Trans. Phyllis I. Lyons, 2018 (1928)
4. Quicksand [Manji] (1928-30)
   • Quicksand. 1928-30. Trans. Howard Hibbett. London: Vintage, 1994.
5. Some Prefer Nettles [Tade kuu mushi] (1929)
   • Some Prefer Nettles. 1928. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
   • Some Prefer Nettles. 1928. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
   • Included in Some Prefer Nettles / The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi / Arrowroot. 1928, 1935, 1932. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Anthony H. Chambers, 1982. London: Picador, 1985.
6. Arrowroot [Yoshino kuzu] (1931)
   • Included in Some Prefer Nettles / The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi / Arrowroot. 1928, 1935, 1932. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Anthony H. Chambers, 1982. London: Picador, 1985.
7. Ashikari [Ashikari] (1932)
   • Included in Ashikari and the Story of Shunkin: Modern Japanese Novels. 1932 & 1933. Trans. Roy Humpherson & Hajime Okita. 1936. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970.
   • Included in The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas. 1932 & 1949. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers. 1994. Vintage International. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1995.
8. The Story of Shunkin [Shunkinshō] (1933)
   • Included in Ashikari and the Story of Shunkin: Modern Japanese Novels. 1932 & 1933. Trans. Roy Humpherson & Hajime Okita. 1936. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970.
9. The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi [Bushukō hiwa] (1935)
   • Included in Some Prefer Nettles / The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi / Arrowroot. 1928, 1935, 1932. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Anthony H. Chambers, 1982. London: Picador, 1985.
10. Captain Shigemoto's Mother [Shōshō Shigemoto no haha] (1949)
    • Included in The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas. 1932 & 1949. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers. 1994. Vintage International. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1995.
11. A Cat, a Man, and Two Women [Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna] (1936)
    • A Cat, A Man, and Two Women: Stories. 1936, 1918, 1925-36. Trans. Paul McCarthy. 1990. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1991.
12. The Makioka Sisters [Sasameyuki] (1943-48)
    • The Makioka Sisters. 1948. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1957. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
    • The Makioka Sisters. 1948. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1957. London: Picador, 1983.
13. The Key [Kagi] (1956)
    • The Key. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1961. London: Panther Modern Fiction, 1968.
14. Diary of a Mad Old Man [Fūten rōjin nikki] (1961)
    • [Diary of a Mad Old Man. 1961. Trans. Howard Hibbett. Borzoi Books. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.]
    • Diary of a Mad Old Man. 1961. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1965. Vintage International. New York: Random House, Inc., 1991.
15. The Maids. Trans. by Michael P. Cronin, 2017 (1962-63)

Stories:


16. Gold and Silver [Kin to Gin] (1918)
17. Fumiko's Feet [Fumiko no ashi] (1919)
18. Seven Japanese Tales. Trans. Howard Hibbett (1963)
    1. A Portrait of Shunkin [Shunkinshō] (1933)
    2. Terror [Kyōfu] (1913)
    3. The Bridge of Dreams [Yume no ukihashi] (1959)
    4. The Tattooer [Shisei] (1910)
    5. The Thief [Watakushi] (1921)
    6. Aguri [Aoi hana] (1922)
    7. A Blind Man's Tale [>Momoku monogatari] (1931)
    • Seven Japanese Tales. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1963. A Berkley Medallion Book. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1970.
19. The Gourmet Club: A Sextet. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (2001)
    1. The Children
    2. The Secret
    3. The Two Acolytes
    4. The Gourmet Club
    5. Mr. Bluemound [Aozukashi no hanashi] (1926)
    6. Manganese Dioxide Dreams
    • The Gourmet Club: A Sextet. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001.
20. Red Roofs and Other Stories. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (2016)
    1. The Strange Case of Tomoda and Matsunaga [Tomoda to Matsunaga no hanashi] (1926)
    2. A Night in Qinhuai [Shinwai no yo] (1919)
    3. The Magician [Majutsushi] (1917)
    4. Red Roofs [Akai yane] (1925)
21. The Jester. Trans. Howard Hibbett. In A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850-1915. Ed. Sumie Jones & Charles S. Inouye (2017)
22. Longing and Other Stories. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy (2022)
    1. Longing
    2. Sorrows of a Heretic
    3. The Story of an Unhappy Mother

Non-fiction:


23. In Praise of Shadows [In'ei raisan]. Trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, 1977 (1933)
24. Childhood Years: A Memoir [Yōshō jidai] (1955-56)
    • Childhood Years: A Memoir. 1955-56. Trans. Paul McCarthy. 1990. London: Flamingo, 1991.

Ever since I first read The Makioka Sisters, Tanizaki has been my favourite among modern Japanese novelists. Not only this, but his more perverse works, such as The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, also hold a strong appeal. I suppose, in essence, it's the fact that he has a 'modern' and a 'traditional' self - which he himself associated with his early residence in Tokyo, then, later on, Kyoto - both of which continue to manifest in his fiction throughout his career.

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Banana Yoshimoto (1915)

Yoshimoto Mahoko ['Banana Yoshimoto'] (1964- )

Novels:


1. Moonlight Shadow. Trans. 1993 (1986)
2. Kitchen. Trans. 1993 (1988)
3. Transient/Sanctuary (1988)
4. Sad premonition (1988)
5. Goodbye Tsugumi. Trans. 2002 (1989)
6. Asleep. Trans. 2000 (1989)
7. N.P. Trans. 1994 (1990)
   • N.P. 1990. Trans. Ann Sherif. Tuttle Publishing. London: Faber, 1994.
8. Lizard. Trans. 1995 (1993)
9. Amrita. Trans. 1997 (1994)
10. Marika's lengthy night: dreamlog in Bali (1994)
11. Hachiko's last lover (1994)
12. Sly. Trans. 1996 (1996)
13. Honeymoon (1997)
14. Hardboiled & Hard Luck. Trans. 2005 (1999)
15. Occult: A Collection of essays selected by the author 1 (2000)
16. Love: A Collection of essays selected by the author 2 (2000)
17. Death: A Collection of essays selected by the author 3 (2001)
18. Life: A Collection of essays selected by the author 4 (2001)
19. The body knows everything (2000)
20. Furin to Nanbei (Adultery and South America) (2000)
21. Daisy's Life (2000)
22. Kingdoms, first instalment, Andromeda Heights (2002)
23. Rainbow (2002)
24. Argentine Hag. Drawings and pictures by Yoshitomo Nara. Trans. 2002 (2002)
25. Cloak of feathers (2003)
26. Memories of a dead end (2003)
27. Don't worry, be happy (2004)
28. High and dry (first love) (2004)
29. Lid of the sea (2004)
30. Kingdoms, second instalment, the shadow of lost things, and ensuing magic (2004)
31. Kingdoms, third instalment, the secret flower garden (2005)
32. The Lake. Trans. 2010 (2005)
33. Dolphin or Are you there? (2006)
34. Salamander or The small shadow (2006)
35. Chie and I (2007)
36. Hawaii dreaming (2007)
37. South point (2008)
38. About her or About my girlfriend (2008)
39. Moshi-Moshi: A Novel. Trans. 2016 (2010)
40. The acorn sisters (2010)
41. Another world, Kingdoms, fourth instalment (2010)
42. Sizzle sizzle (2010)
43. Sweet hereafter (2011)
44. A night with Saki and friends (2013)
45. Hostess bar stumble (2013)
46. Shall We Love? (2013)
47. Take an afternoon nap on a bed of flowers (2013)
48. Birds (2014)
49. Circus night (2015)
50. Funafuna Funabashi (2015)

Nothing if not prolific, since the breakaway success of Kitchen in 1993, less and less of her work has actually been translated into English.

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Books I'd Like to Own: Australasian

Australasia

Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific:

Authors:

1. James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
2. Maurice Duggan (1922-1974)
3. Janet Frame (1924–2004)
4. Maurice Gee (1931- )
5. Russell Haley (1934-2016)
6. Craig Harrison (1942- )
7. Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004)
8. C. K. Stead (1932- )
9. T. G. H. Strehlow (1908–1978)
10. Albert Wendt (1939– )
11. Patrick White (1912-1990)

The Spinoff: 50 Years of the NZ Book Awards

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Books I own are marked in bold:

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James K. Baxter: Complete Poems (2022)

James Keir Baxter (1926-1972)

Poetry:


1. Beyond the Palisade (1944)
2. Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness (1948)
3. Hart Crane: A Poem (1948)
4. [with Louis Johnson & Anton Vogt] Poems Unpleasant (1952)
5. Rapunzel: A Fantasia for Six Voices (1953)
6. The Fallen House (1953)
7. Traveller’s Litany (1956)
8. The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing (1950)
9. [with Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson & Kendrick Smithyman] The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love (1957)
   • James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson & Kendrick Smithyman. The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love. Wellington: Capricorn Press, 1957.
10. In Fires of No Return (1958)
    • In Fires of No Return: Poems. 1958. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
11. Chosen Poems (1958)
12. The Ballad of Calvary Street (1960)
13. Howrah Bridge and Other Poems (1961)
14. The Ballad of the Soap Powder Lock-Out (1963)
15. A Selection of Poetry (1964)
16. Pig Island Letters (1966)
    • Pig Island Letters. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
17. A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting, Elicited by the Decision of the Otago University Authorities to Forbid this Practice Among Students (1967)
18. The Lion Skin: Poems (1967)
19. The Rock Woman: Selected Poems (1969)
    • The Rock Woman: Selected Poems. 1969. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
20. Jerusalem Sonnets: Poems for Colin Durning (1970)
21. Jerusalem Daybook (1971)
    • Jerusalem Daybook. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1971.
22. Ode to Auckland and Other Poems (1972)
23. Autumn Testament (1972)
    • Autumn Testament. 1972. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1973.
    • Autumn Testament. 1972. Ed. Paul Millar. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997.
24. Four God Songs (1972)
25. Letter to Peter Olds (1972)
26. Runes (1973)
    • Runes. 1973. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
27. Two Obscene Poems (1974)
28. The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944–72 (1974)
    • The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944-72. Ed. J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1974.
29. The Tree House and Other Poems for Children (1974)
    • The Tree House and Other Poems for Children. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1974.
30. The Bone Chanter. Ed. John Weir (1976)
    • The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945-72. Chosen and Introduced by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
31. The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady. Ed. John Weir (1976)
    • The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems. Chosen and Introduced by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
32. Collected Poems. Ed. John Weir (1979)
    • Collected Poems. Ed. J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1979.
    • Collected Poems. Ed. J. E. Weir. 1979. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1981.
    • Collected Poems. Ed. J. E. Weir. 1979. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1995.
33. Selected Poems. Ed. John Weir (1982)
    • Selected Poems. Ed. J. E. Weir. 1982. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1988.
34. Cold Spring: Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection. Ed. Paul Millar (1996)
    • Cold Spring: Baxter's Early Unpublished Collection. Ed. Paul Millar. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996.
35. James K. Baxter: Poems. Ed. Sam Hunt (2009)
    • James K. Baxter: Poems. Ed. Sam Hunt. 2009. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.
36. The Selected Poems of James K. Baxter. Ed. Paul Millar (2010)
    • Selected Poems of James K. Baxter. Ed. Paul Millar. Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2010 / Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.
37. Poems to a Glass Woman. Ed. John Weir (2012)
38. Complete Poems. 4 vols. Ed. John Weir (2022)
    • Complete Poems. Ed. John Weir. 4 vols. Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022.
      1. Dunedin and Christchurch: The Early Years, 1943-1948 / The Wellington Years, 1949-1965
      2. The Wellington Years, 1949-1965
      3. Return to Dunedin, 1966-1968 / The Jerusalem Years, 1969-1972
      4. James K. Baxter Complete Poems, edited and introduced by John Weir

Plays:


39. Two Plays: The Wide Open Cage and Jack Winter's Dream (1959)
40. Three Women and the Sea (1961)
41. The Spots of the Leopard (1962)
42. The Bureaucrat (1968)
43. The Devil and Mr Mulcahy, and The Band Rotunda (1971)
    • The Devil and Mr Mulcahy / The Band Rotunda. New Zealand Playwrights. Ed. Michael Noonan. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1971.
44. The Sore-Footed Man, and The Temptations of Oedipus (1971)
    • The Sore-footed Man / The Temptations of Oedipus. New Zealand Playwrights. Ed. Michael Noonan. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1971.
45. Collected Plays. Ed. Howard McNaughton (1982)
    • Collected Plays. Ed. Howard McNaughton. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Prose:


46. Recent Trends in New Zealand Poetry (1951)
47. The Fire and The Anvil: Notes on Modern Poetry (1955)
    • The Fire and The Anvil: Notes on Modern Poetry. 1955. Wellington: New Zealand University Press, 1957.
48. The Coaster. illustrated by William Jones (195-)
    • The Coaster. Illustrated by William Jones. A Primary School Bulletin. Department of Education, Wellington: School Publications Branch, n.d. [195-?]
49. New Zealand in Colour. Photographs by Kenneth & Jean Bigwood (1961)
    • New Zealand in Colour. Photographs by Kenneth & Jean Bigwood. 1961. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1977.
50. Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand (1967)
    • Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1967.
51. The Man on the Horse (1967)
52. The Flowering Cross (1970)
    • The Flowering Cross. Dunedin: New Zealand Tablet Co. Ltd., 1969.
53. James K. Baxter as Critic: A Selection from His Literary Criticism. Ed. Frank McKay (1978)
    • James K. Baxter as Critic: A Selection from His Literary Criticism. Ed. Frank McKay. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978.
54. Horse: A Novel (1985)
    • Horse. New Zealand Classic. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1985.
55. James K. Baxter: Complete Prose. 4 vols. Ed. John Weir (2015)
    • Complete Prose. Ed. John Weir. 4 vols. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2015.
      1. Dunedin and Christchurch: The Early Years, 1943-1948 / The Wellington Years, 1949-1965
      2. Return to Dunedin, 1966-1968
      3. The Jerusalem Years, 1969-1972
      4. James K. Baxter Complete Prose, edited and introduced by John Weir

Miscellaneous:


56. Baxter Basics (1979)
57. The Essential Baxter. Ed. John Weir (1993)

Recordings:


58. Barney Flanagan and Other Poems, Read by James K. Baxter. LP (1973)
59. NZ Poets Read Their Work. Ed. Jonathan Lamb, Jan Kemp & Alan Smythe. 3 LPs (1974)
    • NZ Poets Read Their Work. Ed. Jonathan Lamb, Jan Kemp & Alan Smythe. 3 LPs (Waiata Records, 1974)
60. Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Ed. Jack Ross & Jan Kemp [2 CDs] (2006)
    • Ross, Jack, ed. Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Poems Selected by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006.

Letters:


61. Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn, 1942-46. Ed. Paul Millar (2001)
    • Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn, 1942-46. Ed. Paul Millar. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
62. James K Baxter: Letters of a Poet. 2 vols. Ed. John Weir (2015)
    • Letters of a Poet. Ed. John Weir. 2 vols. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2019.
      1. 1939-1961
      2. 1962-1972

Secondary:


63. O’Sullivan, Vincent. James K. Baxter. New Zealand Writers and their Work. Ed. James Bertram. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
64. Weir, Father J. E. & Barbara A. Lyon. A Preliminary Bibliography of Works by and Works about James K. Baxter. Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1979.
65. Oliver, W. H. James K. Baxter: A Portrait. Auckland: Godwit Press, 1983.
66. McKay, Frank. The Life of James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1990.

It's doubtful he'll ever regain his dominant position in New Zealand poetry after certain recent personal revelations, but there's no ignoring him nevertheless - with all his myriad faults, he's bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.

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Eric Lee-Johnson: Maurice Duggan at Waihi (1960s)

Maurice Noel Duggan (1922-1974)

Short Story Collections:


1. Immanuel's Land (1956)
2. Summer in the Gravel Pit (1965)
3. O'Leary's Orchard and Other Stories (1970)
4. Collected Stories. Ed. C. K. Stead (1981)
   • Collected Stories. Ed. C. K. Stead. Auckland: Auckland University Press & Oxford University Press, 1981.

Children’s Books:


5. Falter Tom and the Water Boy (1957)
   • Falter Tom and the Water Boy. Illustrated by Kenneth Rowell. London: Faber, 1958.
6. The Fabulous McFanes and Other Children’s Stories (1974)

Poetry:


7. A Voice for the Minotaur: Selected Poems (2001)
   • A Voice for the Minotaur: Selected Poems. Ed. Ian Richards. Auckland: The Holloway Press, 2001.

Secondary:


8. Richards, Ian. To Bed at Noon: The Life and Art of Maurice Duggan. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.

Duggan began as a sensitive chronicler of mid-twentieth-century New Zealand life. Whether his later experiments are quite as successful is a matter of taste. For myself, I find them as satisfying as the rest of his work.

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John Money: Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame (1924-2004)

Novels:


1. Owls Do Cry (1957)
   • Owls Do Cry. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1957.
   • Owls Do Cry. 1957. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1976.
2. Faces in the Water (1961)
   • Faces in the Water. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1961.
   • Faces in the Water. 1961. New York: Avon Books, 1971.
   • Faces in the Water. 1961. London: The Women’s Press, 1993.
3. The Edge of the Alphabet (1962)
   • The Edge of the Alphabet: A Novel. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1962.
   • The Edge of the Alphabet: A Novel. 1962. New York: George Braziller, 1991.
4. Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963)
   • Scented Gardens for the Blind. 1964. London: The Women’s Press, 1982.
5. The Adaptable Man (1965)
   • The Adaptable Man. 1965. Auckland: Vintage, 1993.
6. A State of Siege (1966)
   • A State of Siege. 1966. London & Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982.
7. The Rainbirds [aka Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room] (1968)
   • The Rainbirds. 1967. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1969.
8. Intensive Care (1970)
   • Intensive Care. 1970. Auckland: Vintage, 1995.
9. Daughter Buffalo (1972)
   • Daughter Buffalo. 1972. Auckland: Vintage, 1994.
10. Living in the Maniototo (1979)
    • Living in the Maniototo. 1979. Auckland & London: Hutchinson Group & The Women’s Press, 1985.
11. The Carpathians (1988)
    • The Carpathians. Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1988.
12. Towards Another Summer. 1972 (2007)
    • Towards Another Summer. 1972. Auckland: Vintage, 2007.
13. In the Memorial Room. 1974 (2013)
    • In the Memorial Room. 1974. Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2013.

Short stories:


14. The Lagoon and Other Stories (1951))
    • The Lagoon & Other Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1951.
    • The Lagoon & Other Stories. 1951. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1961.
    • The Lagoon and Other Stories. 1951. Illustrations by Karin van Roosmalen. Auckland: Random Century, 1990.
15. The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches / Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies (1963)
    • The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches / Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies. New York: George Braziller, 1963.
    • The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches. 1963. New York: George Braziller, 1993.
    • Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies. 1963. New York: George Braziller, 1993.
16. The Reservoir and Other Stories (1966)
17. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (1983)
    • You are Now Entering the Human Heart. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1983.
18. Prizes: Selected Short Stories (2009)
    • Prizes: Selected Short Stories. The Janet Frame Collection. Introduction by Ian Richards. A Vintage Book. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2009.
    • The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories. The Janet Frame Collection. Introduction by Michèle Roberts. Virago Modern Classics. London: Virago Press, 2010.
19. Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories (2012)
    • Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories. Ed. Pamela Gordon & Denis Harold. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2012.
20. The Mijo Tree (2013)
    • The Mijo Tree. Illustrated by Deidre Copeland. Afterword by Pamela Gordon. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2013.

Children's fiction:


21. Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun. Illustrated by Robin Jacques (1969)
    • Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. New York: George Braziller, 1969.
    • Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun. 1969. Vintage New Zealand. Auckland: Random Century New Zealand Ltd., 1992.

Poetry:


22. The Pocket Mirror (1967)
    • The Pocket Mirror: Poems. New York: George Braziller, 1967.
    • Stories & Poems: The Pocket Mirror & The Lagoon and Other Stories. 1951 & 1967. A Vintage Book. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2004.
23. The Goose Bath (2006)
    • The Goose Bath: Poems. Ed. Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold, & Bill Manhire. A Vintage Book. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2006.
24. Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (2008)
    • Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems. 1967 & 2006. Ed. Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold, & Bill Manhire. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2008.

Non-fiction:


25. To the Is-Land - An Autobiography: Volume One (1982)
    • To the Is-land – An Autobiography: Volume One. 1982. Auckland & London: Hutchinson Group & The Women’s Press, 1984.
26. An Angel at My Table - An Autobiography: Volume Two (1984)
    • An Angel at My Table – An Autobiography: Volume Two. 1984. Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1987.
27. The Envoy From Mirror City - An Autobiography: Volume Three (1985)
    • The Envoy from Mirror City – An Autobiography: Volume Three. Auckland: Hutchinson of New Zealand, 1985.
28. An Autobiography. Collected edition (1989)
    • An Autobiography: To the Is-land; An Angel at My Table; The Envoy from Mirror City. 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 1994.
29. Janet Frame: In Her Own Words (2011)
    • Janet Frame: In Her Own Words. Ed. Denis Harold & Pamela Gordon. Auckland: Penguin Group (NZ), 2011.

Secondary:


30. King, Michael. Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking. Auckland: Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd., 2000.
31. King, Michael. An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame. Auckland: Penguin, 2002.

Her work as a whole is more uneven than many of her admirers would admit, but she must nevertheless be admitted to be one of New Zealand's finest writers.

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Martin de Ruyter: Maurice Gee (2018)

Maurice Gough Gee (1931- )

Novels:


1. The Big Season (1962)
2. A Special Flower (1965)
3. In My Father's Den (1972)
   • In My Father’s Den. 1972. New Zealand Classic. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1984.
4. Games of Choice (1976)
   • Games of Choice. 1976. New Zealand Classic. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1985.
5. Plumb. Plumb trilogy, 1 (1978)
   • Plumb. 1978. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1979.
6. Meg. Plumb trilogy, 2 (1981)
   • Meg. 1981. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
7. Sole Survivor. Plumb trilogy, 3 (1983)
   • Sole Survivor. 1983. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
8. The Fire-Raiser (1986)
9. Prowlers (1987)
10. The Champion (1989)
11. The Burning Boy (1990)
    • The Burning Boy. Auckland: Viking, 1990.
12. Going West (1992)
13. Crime Story (1994)
14. The Fat Man (1994)
15. Plumb Trilogy ['Plumb', 1978; 'Meg', 1981 & 'Sole Survivor', 1983] (1995)
16. Loving Ways (1996)
    • Loving Ways. 1981. Auckland: Penguin, 1996.
17. Live Bodies (1998)
    • Live Bodies. 1998. London: Faber, 1998.
18. Orchard Street (1998)
19. Hostel Girl (1999)
20. Ellie and the Shadow Man (2001)
21. The Scornful Moon (2003)
22. Blindsight (2005)
23. Salt (2007)
24. Gool (2008)
25. Access Road (2009)
26. The Limping Man (2010)
27. The Severed Land (2017)

Children's Books:


28. Under the Mountain (1979)
    • Under the Mountain. 1979. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1982.
29. The World Around the Corner (1980)
30. The Halfmen of O (1982)
    • The Halfmen of O. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982.
    • The Halfmen of O. 1982. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1984.
31. The Priests of Ferris (1984)
    • The Priests of Ferris. 1984. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986.
    • The Priests of Ferris. 1984. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1987.
32. Motherstone (1985)
    • Motherstone. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1985.
    • Motherstone. 1985. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1988.

Short Stories:


33. A Glorious Morning, Comrade (1975)
34. Collected Stories (1986)
    • Collected Stories. 1975. Auckland: Penguin, 1986.

Non-fiction:


35. Memory Pieces (2018)
    • Memory Pieces. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2018.

Secondary:


36. Barrowman, Rachel. Maurice Gee: Life and Work. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2015.

I'm a big fan of his children's stories. I'm not really sufficiently well-read in his other novels to offer an opinion. I do have to admit to having found Plumb a dreary bore. However, I did enjoy Going West.

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Russell Haley (1934-2016)

Russell Haley (1934-2016)

Poetry:


1. The Walled Garden. Northcote: The Mandrake Root, 1972.
2. On the Fault Line. Taylors Mistake: Hawk Press, 1977.

Fiction:


3. The Sauna Bath Mysteries & Other Stories. Mt Eden: The Mandrake Root, 1978.
4. Real Illusions. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1984.
5. The Settlement. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986.
6. Beside Myself. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1990.
7. All Done with Mirrors. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1999.
8. A Spider-Web Season & The Transfer Station: Two Story Sequences. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2000.
9. Tomorrow Tastes Better. Auckland: HarperCollins New Zealand, 2001.
10. The Spaces Between: A Novel. Onetangi, Waiheke Island, Auckland: Adastra Productions, 2012.
11. Moonshine Eggs. Pokeno, Auckland: Titus Books, 2017.

Non-fiction:


12. Hanly: A New Zealand Artist (1989)

Edited:


13. [with Susan Davis]. The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (1989)

Though described dismissively as "probably / the best Yorkshire surrealist / writing in New Zealand" by C. K. Stead, Russell Haley was one of the most offhandedly brilliant (& kind) people I ever met.

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Craig Harrison: The Quiet Earth (1981)

Craig Harrison (1942- )

Fiction:


1. Broken October: New Zealand 1985. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1976.
2. The Quiet Earth. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
   • The Quiet Earth. 1981. Introduction by Bernard Beckett. Text Classics. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company, 2013.
3. Ground Level. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1981.
4. Days of Starlight. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
5. Grievous Bodily. Auckland: Penguin, 1991.
6. The Dumpster Saga. Auckland: Scholastic New Zealand Limited, 2007.

Non-Fiction:


7. How to be a Pom. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1975.
8. The Essence of Art: Victorian Advice on the Practice of Painting. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999.

Drama:


9. Ground Level. Wellington: Radio NZ, 1974.
10. The Whites of their Eyes. Wellington: Radio NZ, 1974.
11. Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day. Reed Drama Series. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1975.
12. Joe and Koro. Wellington: NZBC, 1976-77.
13. The Quiet Earth, dir. Geoff Murphy, writ. Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury (based on the novel by Craig Harrison) – with Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith – (NZ, 1985)
14. White Lies. Auckland: New House, 1994.

NZ Sci-fi author: copies of the first edition of The Quiet Earth are quite difficult to find. See my posts about him here, here, and here.

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NZ Herald: Frank Sargeson

Norris Frank Davey ['Frank Sargeson'] (1903-1982)

Short Stories:


1. Conversation with my Uncle and Other Sketches (1936)
2. A Man and his Wife (1940)
3. That Summer: And Other Stories (1946)
   • That Summer and Other Stories. London: John Lehmann, 1946.
4. Collected Stories, 1935–1963 (1964)
   • Collected Stories: 1935-1963. 1964. Introduction by Bill Pearson. Prefatory Note by E. M. Forster. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1966.
   • Collected Stories: 1935-1963. 1964. Introduction by Bill Pearson. Prefatory Note by E. M. Forster. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1966.
5. The Stories of Frank Sargeson (1973)
   • The Stories of Frank Sargeson. 1973. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1974.
   • The Stories of Frank Sargeson. 1964. Rev. ed. 1973. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1988.
6. Frank Sargeson's Stories (2010)
   • Frank Sargeson's Stories. 1964. Rev. ed with 13 New Stories. Introduction by Janet Wilson. Auckland: Cape Catley Ltd., 2010.

Novels:


7. I Saw in my Dream (1949)
   • I Saw in My Dream. London: John Lehmann, 1949.
   • I Saw in My Dream. 1949. Ed. H. Winston Rhodes. New Zealand Fiction. Ed. Bill Pearson. Auckland: Auckland University Press & Oxford University Press, 1974.
8. Memoirs of a Peon (1965)
   • Memoirs of a Peon. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965.
   • Memoirs of a Peon. 1965. The Godwit Collection 4. Auckland: Godwit, 1994.
9. The Hangover (1967)
10. Joy of the Worm (1969)
    • 2 Short Novels: The Hangover & Joy of the Worm. 1967 & 1969. Auckland: Penguin, 1984.
11. Sunset Village (1976)
    • Sunset Village. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1976.

Novellas:


12. I for One (1952)
13. Man of England Now (1972)
    • Man of England Now. ['I For One', 1952; ‘A Game of Hide and Seek’, 1972 & ‘Man of England Now’, 1972]. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1972.
    • Man of England Now. ['I For One', 1952; ‘A Game of Hide and Seek’, 1972 & ‘Man of England Now’, 1972]. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1972.
14. [with Edith Campion] 'En Route', in Tandem: The Chain & En Route (1979)
    • [with Edith Campion] Tandem: The Chain & En Route. Wellington & Auckland: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979.

Plays:


15. Wrestling with the Angel (1964)
    • Wrestling with the Angel. Two Plays: A Time for Sowing and The Cradle & the Egg. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1964.

Non-fiction:


16. Once is Enough: A Memoir (1973)
17. More than Enough: A Memoir (1975)
18. Never Enough: Places and People Mainly (1977)
19. Sargeson (1981)
    • Sargeson: Once is Enough; More than Enough; Never Enough. 1973, 1975 & 1977. Auckland: Penguin, 1981.
20. Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writing. Ed. Kevin Cunningham (1983)
    • Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writing. Ed. Kevin Cunningham. Auckland: Auckland University Press & Oxford University Press, 1983.

Letters:


21. Letters of Frank Sargeson. Ed. Sarah Shieff. Vintage. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2012.

Secondary:


22. Michael King. Frank Sargeson: A Life. Viking. Auckland: Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd., 1995.
23. An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson’s Centenary. Ed. Graeme Lay & Stephen Stratford. Auckland: Cape Catley Ltd., 2003.
24. Kevin Ireland. Mr Sargeson at Home. Occasional Paper 4. Hamilton: The University Of Waikato, 2005.

Ever since I first bought a copy of his forties volume That Summer and Other Stories while studying abroad, in Edinburgh, I've had a soft spot for Sargeson. I'd never really read him before, but at that moment, at least, he definitely had something to say to me.

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Maurice Shadbolt

Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt (1932-2004)

Novels:


1. Among the Cinders (1965)
   • Among the Cinders. New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1965.
2. This Summer's Dolphin (1969)
   • This Summer’s Dolphin. London: Cassell, 1969.
3. An Ear of the Dragon (1971)
4. Strangers and Journeys (1972)
   • Strangers and Journeys. 1972. Sceptre NZ. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1990.
5. A Touch of Clay (1974)
   • A Touch of Clay. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
6. Danger Zone (1975)
7. The Lovelock Version (1980)
   • The Lovelock Version. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.
8. Season of the Jew. New Zealand Wars trilogy, 1 (1986)
   • Season of the Jew. 1986. London: Sceptre, 1988.
9. Monday's Warriors. New Zealand Wars trilogy, 2 (1990)
   • Monday’s Warriors. 1990. London & Auckland: Sceptre, 1994.
10. The House of Strife. New Zealand Wars trilogy, 3 (1993)
    • The House of Strife. 1993. Auckland: Sceptre NZ, 1994.
11. The New Zealand Wars Trilogy (2005)
    • The New Zealand Wars Trilogy: The House of Strife; Monday’s Warriors; Season of the Jew. 1993, 1990, 1986. Auckland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 2005.

Short stories:


12. The New Zealanders: a Sequence of Stories (1959)
    • The New Zealanders: a sequence of stories. 1959. Christchurch: Whitcoulls, 1976.
13. Summer Fires and Winter Country (1963)
    • Summer Fires and Winter Country. London: Eyre & Spotiswoode (Publishers) Ltd. / New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., 1963.
14. The Presence of Music: Three Novellas (1967)
15. Figures in Light: Selected Stories (1979)
16. Dove on the Waters: Novellas (1996)
    • Dove on the Waters. 1996. Auckland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 1997.
17. Selected Stories of Maurice Shadbolt. Ed. Ralph Crane (1998)
    • Selected Stories. Ed. Ralph Crane. Auckland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 1998.

Non-fiction:


18. Western Samoa: The Pacific's Newest Nation (1962)
19. New Zealand: Gift of the Sea (1963)
20. New Zealand's Cook Islands: Paradise in Search of a Future (1967)
21. The Shell Guide to New Zealand (1968)
    • The Shell Guide to New Zealand. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 1968.
22. Isles of the South Pacific (1968)
23. Love and legend: Some 20th century New Zealanders (1976)
    • Love and Legend: Some 20th Century New Zealanders. Illustrations by Malc Evans. Auckland, London & Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
24. Guide to New Zealand (1988)
25. One of Ben's: A New Zealand Medley (1993)
    • One of Ben's. 1993. Auckland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 1994.
26. Ending the Silences: Critical Essays (1994)
27. From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir (1999).

Plays:


28. Once on Chunuk Bair (1982)
    • Once on Chunuk Bair. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.

TV Documentary:


29. Voices of Gallipoli (1988)

Secondary:


30. Temple, Philip. Life as a Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt. Volume One: 1932-1973. Mangawhai, Northland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 2018.
31. Temple, Philip. Life as a Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt. Volume Two: 1973-2004. Mangawhai, Northland: David Ling Publishing Limited, 2021.

At his best, in Season of the Jew, Once on Chunuk Bair, and some of the short stores, Shadbolt was a really impressive writer. The various dramas which distinguished his life should not distract from that.

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Marti Friedlander: C. K. Stead

Christian Karlson ['Karl' / 'C. K.'] Stead (1932- )

Poetry:


1. Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 (1964)
2. Crossing the Bar (1972)
3. Quesada: Poems 1972–74 (1975)
4. Walking Westward (1979)
5. Geographies (1982)
6. Poems of a Decade (1983)
7. Paris: A poem (1984)
8. [with Keith Sinclair & Murray Edmond] Three Poems for Kendrick Smithyman. Auckland: Department of English / Auckland University Press, 20 November 1987.
9. Between (1988)
10. Voices (1990)
11. Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
    • Straw into Gold: Poems New & Selected. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.
12. The Right Thing (2000)
    • The Right Thing. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000.
13. Dog (2002)
    • Dog: Poems. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
14. The Red Tram (2004)
    • The Red Tram. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.
15. The Black River (2007)
    • The Black River. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.
16. Collected Poems 1951-2006 (2008)
    • Collected Poems 1951-2006. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008.
17. The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012 (2013)
    • The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013.
18. In the Mirror, and Dancing (2017)
19. That Derrida Whom I Derided Died: Poems 2013-2017 (2018)

Novels:


20. Smith's Dream (1971)
    • Smith’s Dream. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1971.
    • Smith’s Dream. 1971. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1973.
21. All Visitors Ashore (1984)
    • All Visitors Ashore. 1984. London: Harvill Press / Auckland: Collins, 1984.
    • All Visitors Ashore. 1984. London: Pan, 1986.
22. The Death of the Body (1986)
    • The Death of the Body. London: Collins, 1986.
23. Sister Hollywood (1989)
    • Sister Hollywood. London: Collins, 1989.
24. The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
25. The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
    • The Singing Whakapapa. Auckland: Penguin, 1994.
26. Villa Vittoria (1997)
27. Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
    • Talking about O’Dwyer: A Novel. Auckland: Penguin, 1999.
28. The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
    • The Secret History of Modernism. London: The Harvill Press, 2001.
29. Mansfield: A Novel (2004)
    • Mansfield. Auckland: Vintage, 2004.
30. My Name Was Judas (2006)
    • My Name was Judas. London: Harvill Secker, 2006.
31. Risk (2012)
32. The Necessary Angel (2018)

Short Story Collections:


33. Five for the Symbol (1981)
    • Five for the Symbol. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1981.
34. The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
35. The Name on the Door is Not Mine: Stories New & Selected (2016)
    • The Name on the Door is Not Mine: Stories New & Selected. Auckland: Allen & Unwin, 2016.

Non-fiction:


36. The New Poetic (1964)
    • The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot. 1964. Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1967.
37. In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
    • In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1981.
38. Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
39. Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers (1989)
40. The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
41. Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
    • Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
42. Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic (2008)
    • Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008.
43. South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932–1956 (2009)
    • South-West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.
44. Shelf Life: Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences (2016)
    • Shelf Life: Reviews, Replies and Reminiscences. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2016.
45. You Have A Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986 (2020)
    • You Have A Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956-1986. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2020.
46. What You Made of It: A Memoir 1987–2020 (2021)
    • What You Made of It: A Memoir 1987-2020. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2021.

Edited:


47. New Zealand Short Stories: Second Series. The World's Classics, 613. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
48. Measure for Measure: A Casebook (1977)
49. The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
50. Maurice Duggan. Collected Stories. Auckland: Auckland University Press & Oxford University Press, 1981.
51. The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories (1994)
52. Werner Forman's New Zealand (1997)

Secondary:


53. Judith Dell Panny. Plume of Bees: A Literary Biography of C.K. Stead (2009)

A complex but always interesting writer. His decision to retire from Academia and pursue fulltime authorship in his mid-fifties has been quite an inspiration to me, I must confess.

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T. G. H. Strehlow: Songs of Central Australia (1971)

Theodor George Henry Strehlow (1908–1978)


1. Aranda Phonetics and Grammar. Introduction by Professor A.P. Elkin (Australian National Research Council, [1944])
2. An Australian Viewpoint (Printed for the author by Hawthorn Press, 1950)
3. Rex Battarbee (Sydney: Legend, [1956])
4. Friendship with South-East Asia: a Cultural Approach (Riall Bros., Printers, 1956)
5. Nomads in No-man's-land (Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1961)
6. Dark and White Australians (Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1964)
7. Assimilation Problems: the Aboriginal Viewpoint (Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1964)
8. The Sustaining Ideals of Australian Aboriginal Societies (Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1966, originally published: Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1956)
9. Comments on the Journals of John McDouall Stuart (Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967)
10. Aranda Traditions (Johnson Reprint, [1968], originally published: Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1947)
11. Songs of Central Australia (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971)
12. Central Australian Religion (Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 1978)
13. Journey to Horseshoe Bend (Adelaide: Rigby, 1978)Songs of Central Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971.

His masterpiece, the Songs of Central Australia is incredibly, terrifyingly rare - but also fascinating.

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Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt (1939- )

Novels:


1. Sons for the Return Home (1973)
2. Pouliuli (1977)
   • Pouliuli. Pacific Paperbacks. Auckland: Longman Paul Limited, 1977.
3. Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979)
   • Leaves of the Banyan Tree. Auckland: Longman Paul Limited, 1979.
4. Ola (1991)
5. Black Rainbow (1992)
   • Black Rainbow. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1992.
6. The Mango's Kiss: A Novel (2003)
7. The Adventures of Vela [verse novel] (2009)
8. Breaking Connections (2015)

Short Stories:


9. Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree and Other Stories (1974)
10. The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories (1986)
11. The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories (1999)
    • The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories. A Vintage Book. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 1999.
12. Small Packages: Stories (2000)
13. Ancestry: Stories (2012)

Poetry:


14. Inside Us the Dead: Poems 1961 to 1974 (1976)
15. Shaman of Visions (1984)
16. Photographs (1995)
    • Photographs. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
17. The Book of the Black Star (2002)
    • The Book of the Black Star. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
18. From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden (2012)
    • From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012.

Plays:


19. Comes the Revolution (1972)
20. The Contract (1972)
21. The Songmaker's Chair (2004)

Non-fiction:


22. Out of the Vaipe, The Deadwater: A Writer's Early Life (2015)

Edited:


23. Lali: A Pacific Anthology (1980)
24. [with Witi Ihimaera] 100 Lovers of Taamaki Makaurau (1994)
25. [with Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan] Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English since 1980 (1995)
26. [with Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan] Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (2003)
    • Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
27. [with Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan] Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Whetu Moana II (2010)
    • Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Whetu Moana II. Ed. Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

Secondary:


28. Paul Sharrad, Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

A major contributor both to New Zealand and Pacific literature.

Albert Wendt

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Patrick White (1912-1990)

Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990)

Novels


1. Happy Valley (1939)
   • Happy Valley. 1939. Introduction by Peter Craven. Text Classics. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company, 2012.
2. The Living and the Dead (1941)
   • The Living and the Dead. 1941. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
3. The Aunt's Story (1948)
   • The Aunt’s Story. 1948. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
4. The Tree of Man (1955)
   • The Tree of Man. 1956. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
5. Voss (1957)
   • Voss. 1957. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., 1958.
   • Voss. 1957. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
6. Riders in the Chariot (1961)
   • Riders in the Chariot. 1961. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
7. The Solid Mandala (1966)
   • The Solid Mandala. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
8. The Vivisector (1970)
   • The Vivisector. 1970. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
9. The Eye of the Storm (1973)
   • The Eye of the Storm. 1973. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
10. A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
    • A Fringe of Leaves. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976.
11. The Twyborn Affair (1979)
    • The Twyborn Affair. 1979. King Penguin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
12. Memoirs of Many in One (1986)
    • [Alex Xenophon Demirijan Gray]. Memoirs of Many in One. Ed. Patrick White. 1986. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
13. The Hanging Garden (2012)
    • The Hanging Garden. With a Note by David Marr. 2012. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2013.

Collections:


14. The Burnt Ones (1964)
    • The Burnt Ones. 1964. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
15. The Cockatoos (1974)
    • The Cockatoos. 1974. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
16. Three Uneasy Pieces (1987)
    • Three Uneasy Pieces. Fairfield, Australia: Pascoe Publishing Pty., 1987.
17. Selected Writings (1994)
    • Patrick White: Selected Writings. Ed. Alan Lawson. UQP Australian Authors. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

Poetry:


18. [as Patrick Victor Martindale] Thirteen Poems. Sydney: Privately printed, [c.1929]
19. The Ploughman and Other Poems. Sydney: Beacon Press, [1935]

Plays:


20. Bread and Butter Women (1935) [Unpublished]
21. The School for Friends (1935) [Unpublished]
22. Return to Abyssinia (1948) [Unpublished]
23. Four Plays. 1965. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1972.
    1. The Ham Funeral (1947 / 1961)
    2. The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962)
    3. A Cheery Soul (1963)
    4. Night on Bald Mountain (1964)
24. Big Toys (1977)
    • Big Toys. Sydney: Currency Press, 1978.
25. Signal Driver: A Morality Play for the Times (1982)
26. Netherwood (1983)
27. Shepherd on the Rocks (1987)

Screenplay:


28. The Night the Prowler (1978)
    • The Night the Prowler: Short Story and Screenplay. 1974 & 1978. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Australia, 1978.

Non-fiction:


29. Flaws in the Glass (1981)
    • Flaws in the Glass: A Self-portrait. 1981. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
30. Patrick White Speaks (1989)
    • Patrick White Speaks. 1989. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.

Letters:


31. Letters. Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House Australia, 1994.

Secondary:


32. David Marr. Patrick White: A Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.

Some great stuff here. He can be a bit ponderous at times, but the last couple of books were a real revelation.

Norman Lindsay: The Magic Pudding (1918)

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