Ivor Indyk

Ivor Indyk
Other names Australian
Alma mater University of Sydney (B.A.)
University College London (Ph.D.)
Occupation literary academic, editor, publisher, professor
Relatives Martin Indyk (brother)
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Ivor Indyk, by Virginia Wallace-Crabbe (National Library of Australia

Ivor Indyk is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and HEAT magazine.

Indyk undertook his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney, and received a PhD from University College London. He has previously taught at the University of Sydney and University of Newcastle; in the late 1970s, he lectured four years at the University of Geneva.[1] He was named the Whitlam Chair in Writing and Society at the University of Western Sydney in 2005.[2]

Indyk was co-editor of the literary periodical Southerly between 1989 and 1993, before founding the literary magazine HEAT in 1996. In 2001, he took a part-time appointment at the University of Newcastle to launch a new series of HEAT. In 1995, he founded Giramondo Publishing.[1]

Alongside many academic articles and newspaper reviews, Indyk was the author of a 1993 monograph on Australian writer David Malouf. The academic and diplomat Martin Indyk is his brother.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Incandescent Ivor Indyk turns down the heat" by Miriam Cosic, The Australian (26 February 2011)
  2. ↑ Staff Directory: Professor Ivor Indyk at the University of Western Sydney

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