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Judah Waten

This is a particularly interesting group of reissued ‘classics’, spanning just over fifty years in twentieth-century Australian literature. Although they have very different fictional styles, all are realist or social realist novels, and their politics and preoccupations are not dissimilar. Each is concerned with working people’s lives, differing contrasts between city and country life, and aspects of class.

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At seventy-one Judah Waten is not just another old soldier who refuses to fade away. Nor is he a man who keeps writing books out of habit. He is a born storyteller who writes when he has something to tell us. And the more he writes, the more powerful and persuasive his fictions become.

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This biography was commissioned by the late Sidney Myer’s trustees shortly after his death in 1934 and completed within a year or so. The author, Ambrose Pratt, was a personal friend of Sidney Myer as well as being a prominent man of letters and the biographer of David Syme. ... (read more)