Giramondo Publishing is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n small press

Small press

Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...

. It is a publisher of Australian literary writing and also published HEAT

HEAT (magazine)

HEAT was an international Australian literary magazine published by Giramondo Publishing and the University of Western Sydney.- History :...

magazine until its closure in 2011.

Giramondo was founded by Ivor Indyk

Ivor Indyk

Ivor Indyk is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and HEAT magazine....

 in 1995, initially publishing the first series of literary journal HEAT. In 2001 it moved with Indyk to the University of Newcastle

University of Newcastle, Australia

The University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales...

. In 2005, it moved again to join the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney

University of Western Sydney

The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

, where it is currently based.

Giramondo began publishing books of literary fiction and non-fiction in 2002. The imprint has put out several award-winning titles, including Carpentaria

Carpentaria (novel)

Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007....

by Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria....

, Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro

Brian Castro

Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....

 and The Idea of Home by John Hughes

John Hughes (writer)

John Hughes is a Sydney-based Australian writer and teacher. His first book of autobiographical essays, The Idea Of Home, published by Giramondo in 2004, was widely acclaimed and won both the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction and the National Biography Award .-The Idea of...

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