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Paul Wenz (1869-1939) arrived in Australia in 1892 and worked as a grazier at ‘Nanima’ in the Forbes district from 1898, where he wrote several popular novels and many short stories of Australian bush life published in Paris. His only work published in English was Diary of a New Chum (ETT Imprint 1990). Most of his books are available in French through the publishers La Petite Maison. His most recent book in English is Their Father’s Land: For King and Empire, translated by Marie Ramsland (ETT Imprint 2018).

Helen Garner (born Melbourne 1942) lived in Paris in the late 70s, and has published extensively around the world. Her Collected Stories were published in 1998, and The First Stone published in a French language edition.

Maurice Blackman (formerly Head of the Department of French, University of New South Wales) has translated this first English version of a classic French novel.