Very briefly:
Inez Baranay was born in
Italy of Hungarian parents who emigrated to Australia when she was
a baby. She has published a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.
More details:
Inez Baranay was born in Naples, Italy of Hungarian parents who emigrated to Australia when she was a baby. She was educated in the western suburbs of Sydney then moved to the inner city. She lived in Malaya with her parents as a teenager for two years, and began her adult travels with a trip to Bali in the late 1970s.
She began publishing short prose fiction in small-press and then main-stream anthologies in the early 1980s. Her first novel Between Careers was published in 1989 although it had been completed years earlier. The short prose collection The Saddest Pleasure (1989) and the novel Pagan (1990) followed, and finishing The Edge of Bali (1992) marked the end of 40 years based in Sydney (including travels in South-East Asia, Europe, Morocco and India).
Inez went to Papua New Guinea with Australian Volunteers Abroad in 1992 (the subject of Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea (1994)).
She lived in Far North Queensland for the next few years, in Cairns and in the Torres Strait Islands. In 1997 Sheila Power was published. During this time she travelled often to the USA (mostly New York City, with a stay in 1995 at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs) and India, where she has been several times to study yoga.
Other trips to India have included a period as writer-in-residence at the University of Madras and a Literature Residency granted by Asialink (2002). India is the setting for her novel, Neem Dreams (2003) and was first published there. In 2006 she taught Creative Writing in Chennai. Her latest novel will also have its first publication in India in 2007
At the start of 1998 Inez moved to South-East Queensland. She has continued to travel every year. In 2006 she returned to New York and Europe, and gave several lectures in universities in Spain.
Inez has taught writing since 1989 in a range of contexts, including universities, community groups, prisons and mentorship schemes. In 2003 she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Writing by Griffith University, where she occasionally teaches.
In 2004 the reprint anthology Three Sydney Novels [Pagan, Between Careers and Sheila Power] was self-published.
Several short stories, essays and reviews have appeared recently (see Uncollected Short Prose page). Work continues in fiction, memoir and essays.
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