Julian Evans 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 Pacific Ocean. In 1992 he published Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific.[1] 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 the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement and Prospect.[2] His most recent full-length book was Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (2008), which was reviewed favourably;[3] Evans wrote about writer and adventurer Norman Lewis after he described Evans's first book, Transit of Venus, as "far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times."[4]
Works
edit- Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (Jonathan Cape, June 2008, Picador June 2009)
- I sotteranei del Vaticano: rereading André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican (Metauro Edizioni, Pesaro 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 (BBC Four film), 2002
- The Romantic Road (BBC Radio 3 20-part radio series), 2000-2
- Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific (Secker & Warburg 1992, Pantheon 1992 (US); revised edition Eland Books 2014)
References
edit- ^ "Transit of Venus testimonials". julianevans.com.
- ^ "Essays, Reviews". julianevans.com.
- ^ Wheeler, Sara (14 June 2008). "Matinee Idol of the Travel Book". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Transit of Venus". Eland Books. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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