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Eda Gunaydin

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish–Australian essayist and researcher whose writing explores class, Western Sydney, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. She is the current Parramatta Laureate in Literature. She has been published widely in Meanjin, HEAT, Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, and others. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance won the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Matt Richell Prize in 2023.

Second city, second settlement: Deborah Prospero walks Parramatta with Eda Gunaydin

I’ve been meaning to write about Parramatta for almost two years now. Mainly because I love it here, but also because I feel uneasy at times. A disproportionate amount of my week is spent in Parramatta Square, ever since the corporate offices, the university and the library with its honeycomb roof converged here in 2022.

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Introduction to Dan Hogan’s Secret Third Thing

What characterises Dan Hogan’s poetry is the way that, each time we come close to fully apprehending the impending collapse of capitalism, we are waylaid by something more urgent and mundane: groceries, emails, calls to Centrelink, traffic jams on the way home from work.

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The Email May Contain Information: Eda Gunaydin on Toby Fitch

What might it mean to acknowledge that this is the substance of the labour performed by many of us, those of us who aspire to do anything but?

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