Julian Evans (born 1955) is an Australian writer and presenter. In 1990 he left his office job to become a writer and spent six months travelling among the islands of the south

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. In 1992 he published ''Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific'', which met with enthusiastic critical acclaim. This launched him on a career as a writer of books, travel articles, essays, and radio and television documentaries on literary subjects. He is also a translator and a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines, including

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and Prospect. His most recent full-length book was ''Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis'' (2008), which was reviewed favourably; Evans was an appropriate biographer for the great writer and adventurer, as Norman Lewis had once described Evans's first book, ''Transit of Venus'', as "far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times."

Works

*''Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis'' (Jonathan Cape, June 2008,

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June 2009) *''I sotteranei del Vaticano: rereading André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican'' (Metauro Edizioni,

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2006) *"Remettez-moi ça" ("Really very fortunate"), La Revue Littéraire vol.1 no.1, April 2004 *"Un gâchis" ("A waste"), L'Atelier du Roman no. 29, March 2002 *''José Saramago: A Life of Resistance'' (

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film), 2002 *''The Romantic Road'' (

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20-part radio series), 2000-2 *''Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific'' (

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1992, Pantheon 1992 (US); revised edition

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2014)

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