Campbell Jefferys
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born
December 30, 1975
gender
male
place of birth
Kalamunda, Australia
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genre
Literature & Fiction
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March 2009
about this author
It started in the hills near Perth, where he was brought rather quietly and with little fanfare into the world. The farming area tucked in the south-west corner of Western Australia became forever his reference point, but even then the world seemed broad and large, with the fields of wheat stretching to the horizon. But the whole world could not simply have been a field of wheat. There had to be more. So, a foray in the big city, slaving through low-paid jobs, struggling and then succeeding, briefly, to make a sporting career in basketball, until succumbing reluctantly to academia. The history graduate, bored and restless, heads off to see the world. He lands a part-time job with a daily paper in a small Canadian town, convinces major newsp...more
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Hunter by Campbell Jefferys (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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date: January 07, 2010 04:00PM location: University of Cologne, Germany description: As part of the University of Cologne's special Australia lecture series, Campbell will give a talk about how the Australian Dream is sold to the world and to other Australians. | |
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date: November 16, 2009 03:15PM location: University of Leipzig, Germany description: Campbell will be giving a lecture about Australian advertising at the University of Leipzig. The lecture will be followed by a reading from his latest book 'Hunter'. | |
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