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Paul Mitchell (born 1968)[1] is an author of five books inMelbourne.
His most recent book is the novel,We. Are. Family., dealing with the generational effect of family violence.The Australian[2] said the novel "asks us if it is possible to escape the subjectivity of our pasts, or do the male voices in our heads sentence us to a lifetime of judgment by their standards? Ultimately,We. Are. Family. might be read as a tale of redemption and hope.” andThe Age[3] said "Mitchell is a terse and observant writer, as alive to the particulars of Aussie idiom and experience as Tim Winton, but less showy . . . It’s hard to write about the thwarts and flaws of conventional masculinity without coming across as either too harsh or too sentimental. Mitchell succeeds in doing so."
Mitchell's 2014 poetry collection,Standard Variation (Walleah Press) gained a short-listing for the 2016Adelaide Writers' WeekJohn Bray Poetry Award,[citation needed], while his debut collection,Minorphysics (IP 2003), won theIP PIcks Award for an Unpublished Australian Poetry manuscript.[4] Mitchell has appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian Short Story Festival and others, and he has won national awards for his short fiction.[5][failed verification] His poetry, essays and stories have been published in newspapers, magazines and journals includingThe Age,The Sunday Age,Best Australian Stories andPoems,Meanjin,Griffith Review,Overland,ABC Religion and Ethics andThe Big Issue.
Mitchell's 2015 playRagdoll was a work of fiction that drew upon two Australian cases of patricide: Arthur Freeman throwing his child Darcy from Melbourne's Westgate Bridge,[6] andRobert Farquharson driving his three children into a dam near Winchelsea. The play, performed bySilas Aiton and directed byDebra Low, was staged at Melbourne'sLa Mama Theatre as part of the 2015 Melbourne Writer's Theatre/Hoi Polloy production of one-act plays calledDarkLight.Helen Garner said of this work that it was "a challenging psychological and emotional exploration . . . a contribution to a desperately needed national conversation [that] will deepen and enrich it in very significant ways.”
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