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Ivor Indyk

b. 1949

Australian literary academic, editor and publisher

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Born 1949. Ivor Indyk is an Australian literary critic.

Ivor Indyk (born 1949) is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and HEAT magazine.

Indyk grew up in Sydney, the elder son of Polish Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland to the United Kingdom. He undertook his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney, and received a PhD from University College London. He has previously taught at the University of Sydney and University of Newcastle; in the late 1970s, he lectured for four years at the University of Geneva.

Indyk was co-editor of the literary periodical Southerly between 1989 and 1993, before founding the literary magazine HEAT in 1996. In 2001, he took a part-time appointment at the University of Newcastle to launch a new series of HEAT. In 1995, he founded Giramondo Publishing.

Alongside many academic articles and newspaper reviews, Indyk was the author of a 1993 monograph on Australian writer David Malouf. The late academic and diplomat Martin Indyk was his brother. He has been married to the writer and critic Evelyn Juers since 1978.

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Born
1949
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Education
University of Sydney, University College London
Awards
Medal of the Order of Australia

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Who is Ivor Indyk?

Australian literary academic, editor and publisher

When was Ivor Indyk born?

Ivor Indyk was born in 1949.

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Ivor Indyk is a literary critic.

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Ivor Indyk is Australian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ivor Indyk

· Wikidata: Q16226568

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