Clive James had a complex relationship with Australia
Part of a quartet of famous Australians who fled the monocultural tedium of the country in the early '60s, the writer had a complex relationship with the land of his birth.
Clive James' fled the monocultural tedium of early '60s Australia. Ken Robertson
Clive James, the Kogarah kid who entertained the world with wit, criticism, poetry, novels and television broadcasts, died on Sunday after a 20-year battle with leukaemia and emphysema. He was 80.
A prodigious writer who produced novels, volumes of criticism, poetry and other articles, James is best remembered for his Unreliable Memoirs, the first in a series of autobiographies that went through dozens of printings.
