Louis Klee

Louis Klee is an Australian writer and philosopher. He teaches at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow and assistant professor at Trinity Hall. A draft of his novel Qualms was a finalist for the 2023 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, which was judged by a panel chaired by Abdulrazak Gurnah. He has contributed to the Sydney Review of Books as a JUNCTURE Fellow, which presents 'a series of new essays… by leading critics'. In 2023, he was writer-in-residence at the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures.

Selected Work

‘Gerald Murnane, The Art of Fiction No. 266’, interview in The Paris Review

‘Actually Existing Australia’, poem in Best of Australian Poems 2021

‘The Time Police’, essay in the Sydney Review of Books

On avant-garde poetry in Australia, review essay in the TLS

‘The Future of Public Criticism’, discussion with Cameron Hurst and James Jiang at Deakin University

‘Landscape Poets’, poem in Best of Australian Poems 2024

‘The Antipodean School’ (with Christian Gelder), essay in the Sydney Review of Books

‘Confounded Dwelling’, essay on W. G. Sebald in New German Critique

‘Iconoclasm from Bed’, poem in the TLS

‘A Forest Without Trees’, essay on Yiddish fiction in Australia in the Sydney Review of Books

‘Ethics and Associativeness’, conversations with Teju Cole in Representations

‘Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work’, essay in the Sydney Review of Books

On Behrouz Boochani, review essay in the TLS

‘Reading Is Like Dreaming’, interview with Lisa Robertson

‘The Rest is Commentary’, essay in The Monthly

On Ellen van Neerven, in brief in the TLS

14 lines, I counted, poetry pamphlet, published with Equipage

‘Occasionalism’, poem in The Suburban Review

‘Sentence to Lilacs’, poem in the Australian Book Review

‘Windborne Avenue’, poem in Best Australian Poems

‘Lost Weather’, essay in the Sydney Review of Books