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Robin Gerster


Born
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Robin Gerster is an Australian author and academic, his main fields are the cultural histories of war and travel, and Western Representations of Japan. He published his PhD thesis as Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing which went on to win The Age Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category.

In the 1990s he held the Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo – an experience which led to the controversial travel book, Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (1999). His book, Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan, won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Book Award and the Prime Minister's Pr
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Travels in Atomic Sunshine:...

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Legless in Ginza: Orientati...

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Travels in Atomic Sunshine:...

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Seizures of youth: The sixt...

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On The War-path: An Antholo...

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Big Nothing the Heroic Them...

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Asia and the Australian Ima...

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