Brigitta Olubas is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her most recent books are We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard (Columbia University Press, 2016) and, with Elizabeth McMahon, Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays (Sydney University Press, 2017). She is writing the authorized biography of Shirley Hazzard for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Brigitta Olubas
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“We Forgot Our Names”
“Most of the time, they changed your name into a number—they called you ABC1, ABC2,” explains Hani Abdile about the time she spent interned in one of Australia’s notorious immigration detention camps on the Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru. “By the time I finished eleven months, even if you call me Hani all the […]
