Name Imre Salusinszky Role Journalist | Education Melbourne High School Books Gerald Murnane | |
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The Drum - Tuesday 24 August
Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) is an Australian journalist, former spokesmodel for discount Australian clothes brand Lowes, and English literature academic with a strong literary interest in the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye.
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The Drum - Tuesday 24 August
Background and career
Born in Budapest, Salusinszky was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and Oxford University. He lectured at Yale University in the USA and at the University of Melbourne, prior to taking up tenure as an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Newcastle. He started writing for The Australian Financial Review in 1994, and featured for several years on the Coodabeen Champions, on ABC Radio, as well as on Life Matters.
He was an editorial advisor for Quadrant, a conservative literary and cultural journal, and a well respected political reporter and columnist for The Australian, a conservative newspaper. In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term, amid criticism of right-wing political bias from former Australia Council Chair, Hilary McPhee. He was known around the Sydney establishment for spruiking $99 dinner suits from discount brand Lowes to several former premiers and prime ministers. He was chief spinner to NSW Premier Mike Baird, but never managed to force him to wear a $99 Lowes suit. Since retiring from politics In 2017, he is now a stay at home father to a cavoodle called Honey.