Louis Klee

Louis Klee is an Australian writer and philosopher. He teaches literature and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. 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

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

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

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

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

On Behrouz Boochani, review essay in the TLS

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

‘Iconoclasm from Bed’, poem in the TLS

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

‘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

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