Institute for Australian and Asian Arts and Culture
Toggle navigation
-
- [NEW] Sandy Edwards: A Backward Glance at Australian Feminism
- Connecting and Connections
- Owen Leong: Bitten Peach 分桃
- Portraits of Women: Amani Haydar
- Hidden Treasures Virtual Gallery
- History Reimagined: Shen Jiawei and NC Qin
- Individual and Universal: the World We Share
- Warren Duncan Exhibition: Australians in 1970’s China
- Traditions & Transformations
- Geng Xue Solo Exhibition 2
- Red Heart of Australia
- William Yang Exhibition: Claiming Heritage
- Wang Lan's Art: A Lyrical Language 牧歌
- Exhibitions 2022
- Exhibitions 2021
- Exhibitions 2020
- Exhibitions 2019
- Exhibitions 2018
- Exhibitions 2016-2017
-
- IAC Art Talks Series 3 Lecture 2: Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma Dr Mai Nguyễn-Long (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 3 Lecture 1: Australian Performing Arts Managers’ Delegation to China by Carrillo Gantner AC (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 2 Lecture 6 - Articulating Trajectories: Connecting with Chinese Heritage Through Drawing & Listening by Dr Cindy Chen (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 2 Lecture 5: The Inner World of Chinese Classical Painting by Dr Richard Wu (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 2 Lecture Four: Storytelling: Chinese Migrants Through Papercutting by Dr Tianli Zu (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talk Series 2 Lecture Three: Life's Journey in Art & Architecture by Simon Chan AM (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 2 Lecture Two : Rethinking the Chinese Art Curator’s Role: A Case Study in Australia by Yin Cao (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Series 2 Lecture One: The Accidental Collector by Dr Geoff Raby AO (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 7: Chinese Art in Australian Public Collections by Jackie Menzies OAM (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 6: Chinese Modernist Artists and the Literati Spirit: the Life and Work of Lin Fengmian and Sanyu by Dapeng Liu (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 5: The Secret History of Chinoiserie by Chris Chun (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 4: New Export China: Reconciling Surface and Depth in Ah Xian’s Porcelain Busts by Dr Alex Burchmore (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 3: Chance Encounters: Untold Tales of Great Journeys made by some Chinese Paintings found in Australia by Yvett Klein (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Lecture 2: Half the Sky: Women Artists in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art by Dr Luise Guest (Catch up Online)
- IAC Art Talks Inaugural Lecture: Identity, Position, Presence by Dr Guan Wei (Catch up Online)
-
- IAC Culture Talks Series 3 Lecture Two: Word Matters - Interpreting for State Leaders by Prof. Charles Qin (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 3 Lecture One: The Transformative Vision of Exophony by Dr Isabelle Li (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 2 Lecture Five: After the Dream: Tracking the Post-Study Lives of Chinese Women Graduates of Australian Universities by Professor Fran Martin (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 2 Lecture Four: A Serious Look at Chinese Humour by Professor Jocelyn Chey (Catch up online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 2 Lecture Three: 1000 Years of Chinese Food: What to Do with All These Recipes? by Professor Thomas David DuBois (Catch up online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 2 Lecture Two: The Civilisation of China’s Southlands by Professor Anne McLaren (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks Series 2 Lecture One: In Search of Australian Literature by Prof Nicholas Jose (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks 3: ‘Innocent Young Girls’: The search for female provincial leaders in China by Dr Minglu Chen (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks Lecture 2: Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore by Dr Quah Ee Ling (Catch up Online)
- IAC Culture Talks: Inaugural Lecture by Professor Wanning Sun (Catch up Online)
-
- My China Story: Dr Geoff Raby AO (Catch up online)
- My China Story: David Walker AM (Catch up online)
- My China Story: David Goodman (Catch up online)
- My China Story: Jocelyn Chey AM (Catch up Online)
- My China Story: Stephen FitzGerald AO (Catch up Online)
- My China Story: Kevin Hobgood-Brown AM (Catch up Online)
- My China Story: Richard McGregor (Catch up Online)
- My China Story: Tracey Holmes (Catch up Online)
- My China Story: Linda Jaivin (Catch up Online)
-
- ACTS 10 & FASIC 9 Conferences
- In Conversation: The Role of Art: The Pokies / Tiger Machine (Catch up Online)
- Special Exhibition Talk-Cutting a Fine Figure: Chinese in the Australian Cultural Landscape by Dr Pamela See (Catch up Online)
- Trailblazers in China: A Conversation with Stephen FitzGerald AO, Yvonne Preston & Warren Duncan (Catch up Online)
- Portraits of Women as Creative Writers – In Conversation with Amani Haydar, Shirley Le and Winnie Dunn
- IAC Annual Address
- IAC Events and Public Seminars
- IAC Music Events and Talks
- If You Are the One Forum at WSU Featuring Q&A with Host Meng Fei
Search query Search
- IAC Home
- Australian Literature Translation
- Translations in 2024
- Denizen by James Mckenzie Watson 《常住居民》
Denizen by James Mckenzie Watson 《常住居民》
Denizen by James Mckenzie Watson
Billed as a gothic thriller or psychological drama , Denizen is set on a remote property in western NSW where nine-year-old Parker battles with the fear that something is wrong with his brain. Much of the story is spent in the head of Parker and his delusional thoughts made up of meandering half sentences and missing words. The tension grows as does the disquiet, drawn not just from Parker, at the mercy of his complex inner world, but from the very bleakness of the landscape, the town and its desolation. Violent and unsettling events that take place in his childhood will later come back to haunt him as an adult and new father. When he returns to his hometown to go on a camping trip with his two best friends from high school, the nightmare reality of his mental health forces him to face his past with dire consequences.
James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. He has written for
Winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards — Best Debut
Shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Shadow Awards — Best Novel
One of the Guardian’s Best Australian Books of 2022
Denizen also received a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and a 2021 KSP Residential Fellowship
ISBN 9781761046100
Format: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 19 July 2022
Publisher: Penguin
詹姆斯·麦肯齐·沃森小说《常住居民》简介
《常住居民》被宣传为哥特式惊悚小说或心理小说，故事发生在新南威尔士州西部一处偏僻的房子里。9 岁的帕克在那里生活，他整日忧心忡忡，担心自己的脑子出了问题。大部分的故事都在讲述帕克的心理世界，小说中破碎的句子和遗漏的词语展示了帕克混乱的幻想。紧张和不安的气氛与日俱增，这不仅仅来自帕克复杂的内心世界，也来自萧瑟的地貌、小镇极其荒凉的景象。童年时期发生的暴力和令人不安的事件，在他长大成人、初为人父后，又开始困扰着他。当他回到家乡，与高中时的两个好友一起去露营时，他噩梦般的心理问题迫使他不得不面对自己的过去，及其严重的后果。
詹姆斯·麦肯齐·沃森创作的小说以健康和澳大利亚乡村为主题。他曾为《卫报》、文学杂志《米安津》（Meanjin）、文学杂志《杀死汝爱》（Kill Your Darlings）和在线书评网站《新城书评》（Newtown Review of Books）撰稿，并参加过许多节日和活动，包括悉尼作家节、纽卡斯尔作家节、BAD悉尼犯罪文学作品作家节 （BAD Crime Sydney）、达博作家节（Dubbo Writers' Festival） 和 全国青年作家节。他是一名护士，并共同主持关于写作和健康的播客节目《詹姆斯和阿什利待在家》（James and Ashley Stay at Home）。《常住居民》是他的处女作。
2021企鹅文学奖
入围2023奈德·凯利奖最佳处女作
入围2022澳大利亚影子奖最佳小说
卫报2022澳大利亚最佳文学作品之一
获得2021 Varuna 驻地作家项目和2021 KSP 驻地作家项目
About Us
The Chey Fellowship
Upcoming Events
Exhibitions
IAC Art Talks
IAC Culture Talks
Writers in Conversation
IAC Artist’s Story
My China Story
Australian Literature Translation
- Advisory Group
- Translations in 2024
- Translations in 2023
- Translations in 2022
- Translations in 2021
- Translators
- Inaugural Online Forum: Chinese and Australian Writers in Dialogue
HDR Students
Chinese Australian History
IAC Events
Contact Us
About Us
Highlights
Contact Us
- Contact Us
- Emergency Help
- Right to information
- Disclaimer
- Privacy
- Complaints Unit
- Accessibility
- Website Feedback
©2025 Copyright Western Sydney University - ABN 53 014 069 881 | CRICOS Provider No: 00917k