Simon Caterson

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Simon Caterson writes on literature, art, ideas, history and popular culture for newspapers and magazines. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and trained there as a lawyer before traveling to Ireland where he completed a postgraduate degree in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Subsequently he produced a doctoral thesis on the Anglo-Irish novelist James Gordon Farrell and a number of academic articles on Farrell and Francis Stuart in Irish and English journals.

Since the early 1990s when his work began appearing in The Age and The Australian, Caterson has published hundreds of items there and elsewhere, his work comprising essays, features, interviews, reports and reviews. In 2004 he had a six-month stint as a columnist at the Sunday Age.

One of Caterson's essays, 'Building the total university', was selected by Robert Dessaix for the 2005 edition of the Best Australian Essays annual. Caterson wrote introductions to new editions of Australian classics The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and Madame Midas, both by Fergus Hume, and The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederick Manning.

Caterson's work is wide-ranging, encompassing Samuel Alexander and The Simpsons. More than once, Caterson has apparently lent support to the movement towards an Australian republic. He has also written at some length, and with ambivalence, on Ned Kelly. His 2000 essay on the writings of notorious ex-criminal and prolific author Chopper Read, which appeared in the Australian Book Review, was described in The Age as "seminal".

He has recently been nominated for the first Agincourt Award for the Longest Bow.[ http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/02/04/announcing-the-agincourt-award-for-the-longest-bow/]

The links below cover work freely available. Other pieces for publications such as Eureka Street, Meanjin and The Griffith Review, are not currently accessible online.

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