Daniel Keene

is an award-winning playwright. His plays have been produced by major companies in Australia and Europe.

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Culture November 04, 2023

Red Mercedes

“I pick up the drink when it arrives and I don’t say thank you. There’s something about this guy I don’t like. Maybe it’s his aftershave, or because I think I can hear him breathing through his nose. Whatever it is, I find it irritating. …”

Culture April 16, 2022

Young Mungo

As with his Booker Prize-winning debut, Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo, describes a grim world. It’s populated by people who are crushed by political and economic decisions made by distant bureaucracies …

Culture July 15, 2023

A knock at the door

“I wasn’t always here, of course. I’ve lived elsewhere. But I ended up here. My mother was already old then, when I came back home. She simply opened the door and let me in. I had nothing. I didn’t even have a suitcase. It was just me …”

Culture March 05, 2022

The Sorrow Stone

A comb carved from deer antler placed in a dead woman’s hand; a golden arm ring wrapped in a bloodied cloth; a cloak of blue “that would stand for the colour of his eyes and the sea and the sky” that covers the body of a loved one. In Kári Gíslason’s …

Culture May 15, 2021

Boy with no face

“The ill one. The little one. He cried and cried. Someone far held him in her hands. Like a fish. Her eyes looked at him. She said nothing. Someone far came. She touched my face with her lips. I waited over and over in the dark nights. All dark nights …”