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Woman Bobis, Merlinda

Occupation: Author and Poet

Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne

Merlinda Bobis was born in the Philippines in 1959 and arrived in Australia in 1991. Her works include Banana Heart Summer: A Novel (2005) and Fish-hair Woman (2012).

Additional sources: AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (subscription database).

Published Resources

Newspaper Articles

Wright, Ed, 'New Australian Fiction', The Australian, 4 August 2012, p. 20. Details

Online Resources

The Wordshed: Merlinda Bobis, Filipino Poetry that Punches, 2007, http://youtu.be/ZrvZzGc6nUA. Details

See also

'Bobis, Merlinda', The Australian Women's Register, National Foundation for Australian Women, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4989b.htm. Details

Work on The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia was undertaken as part of the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP100200304).

Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2014
ISBN 978-0-7340-4873-8
http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0215b.htm

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