# Maria Takolander
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maria takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian writer. She is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria.
== Biography ==
Takolander is the author of five books: a collection of short stories, The Double (Text, 2013); a book of literary criticism, Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (Peter Lang, 2007); and three collections of poems, The End of the World(Giramondo, 2014), Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009) and Narcissism (Whitmore Press, 2005).
Maya Pilbrow and Maria Takolander
Maya Pilbrow talks to activists dedicated to exposing the role of Australian-made weapons in human rights abuses in West Papua, and explores this in ‘Making a Killing’, a story courtesy of the 'All The Best' collective; and poet Maria Takolander speaks about her recently released personal poetry co…
‘A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry’ by Maria Takolander
The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for short fiction, is now open and closes on April 24, with total prize money of $12,500. In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature Maria Takolander’s story ‘A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry’, which won ABR’s short story compe…
Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new fiction from Anindita Ghose, Vigdis Hjorth and Alice Nelson
Reading Anindita Ghose's bestseller The Illuminated and Is Mother Dead by Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth with guest reviewers Maria Takolander and Suma Iyer, and an interview with Australian author Alice Nelson.
‘Tumbleweed: How the West was lost’ by Maria Takolander
This week on The ABR Podcast, we feature the runner-up in the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, titled ‘Tumbleweed: How the West was Lost’, by Maria Takolander. Wide-ranging and delightfully digressive, Takolander’s encyclopaedic essay uses the modest tumbleweed as a lens through which to examine Western m…
Maria Takolander in conversation
In this episode, a conversation with novelist and poet Maria Takolander, author of The End of Romance, a new work of dystopian fiction.
It is the future, and the earth has seemingly refused to cooperate with humanity, producing only thorn-bearing plants and caustic fogs in abundance. Life is hard …
Art, apocalypse and country people
Dave Eggers explores the messy intersection of art, friendship and growing up in Contrapposto, while Daniel Mason's Country People follows an academic family into a Vermont landscape full of stories and believers in worlds beneath the earth. Then Maria Takolander's The End of Romance imagines life …
Magic and Mayhem
Season 2, Episode 18
Perry and David discuss the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, and The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan
Introduction (3:33)
Discussion (40:37)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (18:16)
The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan (21:49)
What else we've been…
Dave Eggers draws on his lifelong friendships in Contrapposto
Why American author Dave Eggers' new novel Contrapposto has taken over 20 years to write. Plus Australian writer Maria Takolander explains the link between Elon Musk, her son and her novel The End of Romance.
Firstly, Dave Eggers is the celebrated author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Stagg…
Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeleine Seys on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by Maria Takolander and Tamara Neal to talk Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron, Madeline Miller's Circe, Bridie Jabour's The Way Things Should Be and Madeline Seys is along on Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
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