John Mateer’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Contemporary Australian poet
Is Poet 
From South Africa 
Type Literature 
Gender male
Birth 1971, Roodepoort, South Africa
Age: 49 years
Education
International Writing Program
University of Iowa

John Mateer (born 1971) is a South African-born Australian poet and author.

Early life and education

He was born in Roodepoort, South Africa in 1971, and grew up on the outskirts of Johannesburg. He spent some of his childhood in Canada, before returning to South Africa in 1979. In 1989 he moved to Australia with his family. He attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Since then, he has lived in Melbourne and Perth.

Literary career

Mateer has published several collections of poems. Barefoot Speech won the 2001 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Loanwords was shortlisted for the 2002 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Unbelievers, or The Moor was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, 2015. He was also a recipient of the Centenary Medal for his contributions to Australian literature.

He has read his work at poetry festivals in Asia and Europe, and most recently in Japan and in Malaysia. His works have been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. Mateer was granted a fellowship to travel to Indonesia, and later published a non-fiction travelogue entitled Semar’s Cave: an Indonesian Journal.

Works

Poetry

  • Burning Swans (1994)
  • Anachronism (1997)
  • Barefoot Speech (2000)
  • Loanwords (2002)
  • The Ancient Capital of Images (2005)
  • Elsewhere (2007)
  • Ex-White: South African Poems (2009)
  • The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009 (2010)
  • Southern Barbarians (2011)
  • Unbelievers, or the Moor (2013)
  • João (2018) Giramondo ISBN 978-1-925336-62-7

Travel

  • Semar’s Cave: an Indonesian Journal (2004)
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