Elizabeth Jolley would have turned 100 today. Philip Salom summed up her work so well as ‘mirth and malice’. I wrote an article about her centenary for the State Library of New South Wales’ Open Book magazine called ‘The Bard of Eccentricities’ – you can read it here. It’s an introduction to her life and work, and a consideration of her afterlife and the sad forgetting of a writer who had been a superstar.

I’ve also been working with my colleagues on an exhibition: ‘The Centenary of Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007): The Legacy of a Curtin Literary Great’. We opened it on Thursday and it will be in place until the end of August on Level 3 of Curtin University’s Robertson Library. The details are here.

Lisa Hill at ANZ Litlovers has long been a champion of Jolley’s work and has an author page here and new post here.