Other names Australian Relatives Martin Indyk (brother) | Name Ivor Indyk | |
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Alma mater University of Sydney (B.A.)
University College London (Ph.D.) Occupation literary academic, editor, publisher, professor | ||
The wordshed ivor indyk summarises his lecture on shyness
Ivor Indyk (born 1949) is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and HEAT magazine.
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- The wordshed ivor indyk summarises his lecture on shyness
- Ivor indyk landscape in the poetry of wright slessor stewart hope
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Indyk grew up in Sydney, the elder son of parents who had emigrated from Poland. He undertook his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney, and received a PhD from University College London. He has previously taught at the University of Sydney and University of Newcastle; in the late 1970s, he lectured four years at the University of Geneva. He was named the Whitlam Chair in Writing and Society at the University of Western Sydney in 2005.
Indyk was co-editor of the literary periodical Southerly between 1989 and 1993, before founding the literary magazine HEAT in 1996. In 2001, he took a part-time appointment at the University of Newcastle to launch a new series of HEAT. In 1995, he founded Giramondo Publishing.
Alongside many academic articles and newspaper reviews, Indyk was the author of a 1993 monograph on Australian writer David Malouf. The academic and diplomat Martin Indyk is his brother. He has been married to the writer and critic Evelyn Juers since 1978.