“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 ...
Brigitta Olubas
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. 