WONGAR, B. Australian author - fiction, drama and poetry. In 1960 when aged 28, he began to learn English in order to write; since then he has published 20 books. In his unique genre of writing, Wongar portrays the fate of Australian Aborigines which he also links to the state of Australian perishing wildlife. He is best known for his Nuclear Quartet-novels Walg, Karan, Gabo Djara, Raki and Mada which extended the perimeter of creative writing and brought him international recognition. Some of his earlier work have been banned by the Australian Government, thus depriving him of publishing opportunities in Australia and the U.K.

Wongar began publishing first in France, Germany and the USA, encouraged by Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett and many other well known authors. His books are often illustrated by traditional Aboriginal artist Yumanga Burarrwanga of Arnhem Land.

Wongar is a life member of the Australian Atomic Ex-Servicemen's Association. He lives with his pack of dingoes on his bush property in Gippsland, south of Melbourne.

Works by B.Wongar (Books & Editions)

New!! MANHUNT [cover | buy now]
THE NEW GUINEA DIARIES (Translation) [Hard cover buy now | Paperback buy now]
ABORIGINAL MYTHS
THE TRACK TO BRALGU[buy now]
BABARU [buy now]
BILMA
THE NUCLEAR CYCLE

Some Essays and Papers on B.Wongar's Work

Amanuddin, Dr Syed: 'Wongar's Walg'. written for The Modern Language Association of America Convention, Chicago, USA, 1985.

Bandler, Faith: Walg, Books and Writings, ABC, 20 June 1985.

de Beauvoir, Simone: Foreword to Walg, Dodd Mead, USA, 1983.

Bogoeva-Sedlar, Prof Ljiljana: 'Mapping the other, Mapping the self': B.Wongar's novel Raki', witten for the conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Strasbourg 2002. Published in O Promenama, Prosveta, Nis 2003.

Bruning, Dr Prof Eberbard: Leipzig University. Foreword/essay in Der Pfad nach Bralgu, Verlag Philipp Reclam, Leipzig, 1981 and 1988.

Burns-Ferrari, Dr Margaret; Boston College: 'The Steel Trap', published in The New Renaissance, spring 1983, Boston, USA.

Burns-Ferrari, Dr Margaret; Review of Raki in The New Renaissance, No.32, Summer 1999, Boston, USA.

Connor, Michael and Matthews, David; Melbourne University:'The Tracks of the Reader, in the Tracks of B. Wongar', presented at Macquarrie University, 1989. Published in Meanjin, Melbourne, 1989.

Dimic, Moma: 'B.Wongar - poet of the last pack of dingoes', in Bilma, Centre for Culture and Education, Arandjelovac, Serbia 2005.

Dobrez, Prof Livio; Australian National University: 'What Colour is White? A European Experience of Aboriginal Australia', In Stories of Australian Migration,N.S.W. University Press, 1988.

Dobrez, Prof Livio: 'Wongar's Metamorphoses: The Track to Bralgu', University of Western Australia Press, 1991.

Gleason, Dr Judith; New York University: 'To Expiate the Crumbling of a Hill', published in Parnassus, USA, August 1988.

Gunew, Dr Sneja; Deakin University, Australia: 'Culture, Gender and the Author-Function: Wongar's Walg', in Southern Review, Novermber 1987.

Handke, Peter: Forword to Babaru, German edition, Edition Esele, Germany, 1987.

Jiong-Qiang, Prof Zhu: 'Works of B. Wongar', Conference on Australian Culture, Beijing, China, October 1998.

Majstorovic, Danica: 'The Meeting Place'in Antipodes, Vol 10 No 1, Summer 1996, USA.

Mathews, David; 'B. Wongar' in Directory of Literary Biography, Bruccoli Clark Layman, USA, 2006.

Nolan, Maggie: 'The Absent Aborigine' in Antipodes, Vol 12, Summer 1998, USA.

Papastergiadis, Dr Nikos: Interview with Wongar in Access to Excellence by Niko Papastergiadis, Sneja Gunew and Annette Blonski, Centre for Studies in Literary Education, Deakin University, 1993.

Paton, Alan: Foreword to The Track to Bralgu, Little Brown, USA, 1979.

Pullan, Robert: 'In Police Custody: 200 Pages of B. Wongar's novel Manhunt, in The Australian Author, Vol 21, No 4, Summer 1989/90.

Ristic, Prof Ratomir: 'Journeys of B.Wongar', in Flower in Desert, Prosveta, Nis 2005

Ross, Prof Robert: 'The Track of Armageddon in B. Wongar's Nuclear Trilogy', written for the Conference of the Common Wealth of Letters, Yale University, USA, 1988. Published in World Literature Today, Winter 1990, USA.

Ross, Prof Robert: 'The Universality of Human Suffering' in The World & I, USA, March 1998.

Schwartz, Larry: About Totem and Ore (Review) The Age, 11 Nov 2006.

Sharad, Dr Paul; Adelaide University: 'Does Wongar Matter?' in Kunapipi, Vol 4, No 2, 1982.

Shapcott, Tom: 'Tracking The Tracker', The University of Adelaide, 2003; presented at the AAWP Conference, School of Creative ART, University of Melbourne, 2002.

Skorodenko, V:'Miri i Mifi, Karana', Foreword/essay in Karan, Radruga Publishaing, Moscow, 1988.

Strelau, Marilyn: 'B. Wongar - Teaching an Emu how to fly' in Antipodes, Vol 10, No 1, Summer 1996, USA.

Volgino Alex: 'Lastoria dell' uomo che fu salvato dai Dingo' in Argos, No 43, Milan, 1991.

Willbanks, Dr Ray: Essay on B. Wongar in Australia Voices, published by University of Texas Press, 1991.