Australian Authors Abroad for Australia Day

A recent documentary "In Search of Bony" (SBS TV 25 January, 2007) made the point that the author Arthur Upfield was almost forgotten in Australia, but still sold in France and Germany.

I did a quick search and found Upfield's books books in French and German. This sparked my interest, so for Australia Day I created Amazon store of books about Australia and by Australians in French and Australians in German.

The Australian Embassy in Paris had a list of popular Australian authors, so I included them. Some of them were only available in French, others in German, some in English. Here are the ones I cluld find in all three languages:

Author	French Title	German Title	English Title
Murray Bail	Eucalyptus	Eukalyptus	Eucalyptus
Peter Carey	Véritable Histoire du Gang Kelly	Die wahre Geschichte von Ned Kelly	True History of the Kelly Gang
Bruce Chatwin	Le Chant des Pistes	Traumpfade	Song Lines
David Malouf	Je me souviens de Babylone	Jenseits von Babylon	Remembering Babylon
Patrick White	Voss	Voss	Voss

I sent a list to the Australian Embassy in Paris and Berlin.


ps: The German edition of Eukalyptus has Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe on the cover. But the film adaption of the book featuring them was "postponed".