Gangaroo is the Australian

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of Austrian publisher ''Gangan Verlag''.

History

In 1989

Gerald Ganglbauer Gerald Ganglbauer (born 24 February 1958 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian–Australian writer and publisher diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 48 years. Since then he has been an ambassador for Parkinson's support groups. Life B ...

, a young Austrian publisher, arrived in Australia and started collecting Australian short stories, experimental prose, and poetry. Back then

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was largely unknown in German speaking countries, and he had the ambition to change that with ''Gangaroo'' (a coinage of the words ''Ganglbauer'' and ''kangaroo''), the imprint of now Sydney based small press ''Gangan Books Austr(al)ia''. Together with Bernard Cohen,

Rudi Krausmann Rudi Krausmann (23 July 1933 in Mauerkirchen, Salzburg – 15 March 2019 in Sydney) was an Austrian born Australian playwright and poet. Life Rudi Krausmann studied Economics in Vienna and worked as a journalist for the Austrian newspape ...

and Michael Wilding, he created ''The OZlit Collection'' in three volumes: Vol. 1: ''Air Mail from Down Under'' (Short Stories, translated into German), Vol. 2: ''Malevolent Fiction'', was not published in print, but online (in parts) and Vol. 3: ''Made in Australia'' (Poetry, bilingual English/German). However, in spite of having received good reviews in Germany as well as in Australia, sales were slow, and not even a grant from the

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could help the publisher to break even, which put an end to ''The OZlit Collection'' in print. As a consequence, new titles were published online since 1996, and the name changed to ''Gangan Publishing''.

The OZlit Collection

Volume 1

David Malouf at the Goethe-Institute in Sydney

, Michael Wilding: ''Air Mail from Down Under. Zeitgenössische Literatur Australiens. Short Stories'' 1990, The short stories in ''Air Mail from Down Under'' by

Glenda Adams Glenda Emilie Adams (née Felton; 30 December 1939 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for ''Dancing on Coral''. She was a teacher of creative w ...

, Inez Baranay, David Brooks, Peter Carey,

Helen Garner Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, ''Monkey Grip (novel), Monkey Grip'', published in 1977, immediately established her as an origina ...

, Kate Grenville,

Kris Hemensley Kris Alan Hemensley (born 26 April 1946) is an English-Australian poet who has published around 20 collections of poetry. Through the late 1960s and '70s he was involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, and edited the literary magazines '' Our Gl ...

, Nick Jose,

, David Malouf, Frank Moorhouse,

Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...

, Oodgeroo Noonuccal,

Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South ...

Vicki Viidikas Vicki Viidikas (25 September 1948 – 27 November 1998) was a twentieth-century Australian poet and prose writer. Her first poem, ''At East Balmain,'' was published when she was 19 years old. Her poetry, fiction and drawings were published in ...

Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, ...

, Michael Wilding, and Renate Yates were translated into the German language by Marc Adrian, Bettina Boss, Gerald Ganglbauer, Bernd und Barbara Hüppauf, Rudi Krausmann, Olaf Reinhardt, and Nic Witton. When Gerald Ganglbauer and Michael Wilding launched the first volume in Vienna, an Austrian newspaper titled their review "More than kangaroos and koalas", and wrote: Gangan Verlag proves with this important new release that Australia's cultural output consists of more than

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and

The Thorn Birds ''The Thorn Birds'' is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland, the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1 ...

. The

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agreed: As far as literature is concerned, Australia is a largely unknown continent even for an Anglophile.

Volume 2

* Bernard Cohen,

, Gregory Harvey: ''Malevolent Fiction. Australias Experimental Literature'' (1992) 2017, With ''Malevolent Fiction'' the gap between Volume 1 and 3 is finally closed. Contributions ( Jas H Duke,

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/ Linda Marie Walker, Ruark Lewis, Chris Mann and

Ania Walwicz Ania Walwicz (1951 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist. Early life Walwicz was born in Swidnica Polska, Swidnica, Poland where she spent her childhood, before migrating to Australia in 1963 ...

) have appeared online in the publisher's literary magazine Gangway in 1996.

Volume 3

* Gisela Triesch,

: ''Made in Australia. Die Poesie des fünften Kontinents, Australian Poetry Today'' 1994, ''Made in Australia'' is a bilingual English-German edition of selected work by eighty contemporary Australian poets. This literary crowd, and its host of German apparitions, is squeezed into a mere three hundred pages, as a kind of export package. Each poet’s name is actually stamped with the familiar, triangular “Australian Made” trade logo. Poetry as merchandise. Please consider. The arrangement of the poets ''Made in Australia'' is by date of birth, beginning with Margaret Diesendorf, who was born in 1912 and died two years ago, and leading up to poets born in 1960. Obviously, preference and available space determined inclusions and omissions, but few readers will dispute that it is a well-balanced, carefully selected anthology. The inclusion, as the last poem, of Maureen Watson’s “Stepping Out” with its final “I don’t walk, I strut/ ‘Cause now, I’m liberated” provides a very moving ending. There are no dates alongside her name ''(Unknown, as sometimes the case with Aboriginals having no birth certificates)''.Ralph Elliott: Australian-German links, in: Canberra Times, 2 September 1995
Review of ''Made in Australia''
, retrieved on 2. July 2011. Around 140 selected poems from Australian poets such as Robert Adamson, Richard Allen,

Bruce Beaver Bruce Victor Beaver (14 February 1928 – 17 February 2004) was an Australian poet and novelist. Biography Beaver was born in Manly, New South Wales. He was educated at the Manly Public School and at the Sydney Boys' High School. He worked at ...

to Banumbir Wongar, Judith Wright, and Fay Zwicky, to name but a few from A to Z were translated into the German language by C. W. Aigner, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Gerhard Fischer, Gerald Ganglbauer, Rudi Krausmann, Michael C. Prusse, Olaf Reinhardt, Isolde Scheidecker, Gisela Triesch, and Volker Wolf.

References

External links

Gangan Verlag’s Website

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