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category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Australian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Australian</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Larry Philip Buttrose</b> (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is the <a href="/wiki/Ghostwriter" title="Ghostwriter">ghostwriter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Saroo_Brierley" title="Saroo Brierley">Saroo Brierley</a> memoir <i><a href="/wiki/A_Long_Way_Home_(book)" title="A Long Way Home (book)">A Long Way Home</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film <i><a href="/wiki/Lion_(2016_film)" title="Lion (2016 film)">Lion</a></i>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Buttrose was born in <a href="/wiki/Adelaide" title="Adelaide">Adelaide</a>, South Australia. At the age of 17 he co-founded the poetry magazine <i>Dharma</i> (later titled <i>Real Poetry</i>) with his then partner Donna Maegraith and friend Stephen Measday. While at university he trained as a journalist with the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">Australian Broadcasting Commission</a>, and after graduating he worked as a freelance journalist. He gained his PhD from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Adelaide" title="University of Adelaide">University of Adelaide</a> in 2011. He has two children, and lives in Sydney. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Buttrose published his first collection of poems, <i>One Steps Across The Rainbow</i> in 1974, at the age of 21. His first major collection, <i>The Leichhardt Heater Journey</i> (1982), was the first title in the long-running Friendly Street Poets series. He also co-edited the <i>Number 3 Friendly Street</i> anthology with <a href="/wiki/Peter_Goldsworthy" title="Peter Goldsworthy">Peter Goldsworthy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Angus_%26_Robertson" title="Angus &amp; Robertson">Angus &amp; Robertson</a> published Buttrose's first book of travel writing, <i>The King Neptune Day &amp; Night Club</i> in 1992, and the critically acclaimed best-seller <i>Cafe Royale</i> (later retitled <i>The Blue Man</i>) followed in 1997. In 2004, he collaborated on the memoir by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Hutchence" title="Michael Hutchence">Michael Hutchence</a>'s brother Rhett, <i>Total Xcess</i>, and other books followed, including <i>Tales of the Popes</i> (2009) and the satirical graphic novel <i>Finding the Shelf Within</i> (2009). </p><p>He has also written extensively for the stage, his produced works including <i>Pallas</i> (1987), <i><a href="/wiki/Kurtz_(Heart_of_Darkness)" title="Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)">Kurtz</a></i> (1991), the co-written musical <i>Hot Shoe Shuffle</i> (1992) and <i>Complaints</i> (1996). The ABC has produced two plays for radio, <i>Santo</i> (1986) and <i>Complaints</i> (1993). </p><p>He has contributed journalism to <i><a href="/wiki/Roadrunner_(Australian_music_magazine)" title="Roadrunner (Australian music magazine)">Roadrunner (Australian music magazine)</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i>, and opinion to various newspapers. </p><p>His best known book is <i><a href="/wiki/A_Long_Way_Home_(book)" title="A Long Way Home (book)">A Long Way Home</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Saroo_Brierley" title="Saroo Brierley">Saroo Brierley</a> memoir, which he ghost-wrote in 2012. He researched and wrote the book between September and December of that year, including research trips to <a href="/wiki/Hobart" title="Hobart">Hobart</a> to interview Saroo and his family, and a month-long journey to <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> with Saroo. There he met Saroo's Indian family, and travelled with Saroo on a rail journey across India, retracing for the first time the journey that Saroo took two and a half decades before as a young child, that ended him in Calcutta (now <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a>). Buttrose completed the book in his Kolkata hotel room. </p><p>He has also taught writing and media at various Australian universities. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Adelaide University (2011). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cabaret_and_comedy">Cabaret and comedy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Cabaret and comedy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1982 Buttrose joined Len Lindon's innovative comedy cabaret group Quietly Confident. The group moved to Sydney later that year, establishing itself in Surry Hills. They performed at many of the city's leading venues, including Kinselas, the Tivoli, Stranded and Art Unit. They released a single, Republic of Australia,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 1983 performed a self-devised play, <i>Scenario X</i>, about the sacking of the <a href="/wiki/Whitlam_government" title="Whitlam government">Whitlam government</a>, at the Nimrod Theatre. The group broke up that year, but in late 1983 Buttrose co-founded The Gap cabaret venue at the Sydney Trade Union Club with his then partner comedian Mandy Salomon, and their business partner, Judy Barnsley. </p><p>The Gap ran from 1983 to 1987, and helped launch the careers of a host of performers, including Salomon herself (with whom Buttrose collaborated in a creative partnership), <a href="/wiki/Gretel_Killeen" title="Gretel Killeen">Gretel Killeen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julie_McCrossin" title="Julie McCrossin">Julie McCrossin</a>. Buttrose, Salomon and Barnsley also co-produced the Characters! series at The Gap and at the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Theatre_Company" title="Sydney Theatre Company">Sydney Theatre Company</a>'s Wharf Theatre, showcasing Australia's new generation of women comics, including <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Harmer" title="Wendy Harmer">Wendy Harmer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary-Anne_Fahey" title="Mary-Anne Fahey">Mary-Anne Fahey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gretel_Killeen" title="Gretel Killeen">Gretel Killeen</a>, Sue Ingleton, Angela Moore, Melanie Salomon, Victoria Roberts and Penny Biggins, poet Pam Brown, Sarah Miller (Told by an Idiot) and hosted by Mandy Salomon. </p><p>In 1986 Buttrose was approached by Mark Morgan of the Harold Park Hotel to start a weekly comedy night, called Comics in the Park. It quickly gained a following from audiences, and a number of Australia's leading comedians did their first performances there, including <a href="/wiki/Bob_Downe" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Downe">Bob Downe</a> (whom Buttrose later managed), <a href="/wiki/Paul_Livingston" title="Paul Livingston">Flacco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimeoin" title="Jimeoin">Jimeoin</a>, Kitty Flanagan, and the <a href="/wiki/Umbilical_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Umbilical Brothers">Umbilical Brothers</a>. Others who performed there included Robin Williams, <a href="/wiki/Vince_Sorrenti" title="Vince Sorrenti">Vince Sorrenti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austen_Tayshus" title="Austen Tayshus">Austen Tayshus</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Smilovici" title="George Smilovici">George Smilovici</a>, Steve Abbott, and Funny Stories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_interests">Other interests</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Other interests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Buttrose plays <a href="/wiki/Squash_(sport)" title="Squash (sport)">squash</a> and badminton, and in 2006 co-founded The Carringtonians, a long-running weekly drinks get-together for <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wales)" title="Blue Mountains (New South Wales)">Blue Mountains</a> writers and others, at the historic Carrington Hotel in <a href="/wiki/Katoomba,_New_South_Wales" title="Katoomba, New South Wales">Katoomba</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Maze of the Muse</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (1998)</li> <li><i>Sweet Sentenc</i>e (2001)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Humour_and_graphic_novel">Humour and graphic novel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Humour and graphic novel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Finding The Shelf Within</i> (2009)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_story_collection">Short story collection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Short story collection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Everyone on Mars</i> (2024)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Travel">Travel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Travel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The King Neptune Day &amp; Night Club</i> (1992)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Cafe Royale</i> (1997)/<i>The Blue Man</i> (1999)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>One Steps Across The Rainbow</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Random Leaves</i> (1978)</li> <li><i>The King Neptune Day &amp; Night Club</i> (1982)</li> <li><i>Learning Italian</i> (1986)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Total Xcess</i> (editor/collaborator, 2004)</li> <li><i>People Who Changed the Modern World</i> (2005)</li> <li><i>Powerful &amp; Influential People</i> (2006)</li> <li><i>Dead Famous: Deaths of the Famous and Famous Deaths</i> (2007)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Tales of the Popes</i> (2009)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Speeches of War and Peace</i> (2009, Concise edition 2010)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theatre">Theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Scenario X</i> (co-creator, 1983)</li> <li><i>111 Foveaux</i> (co-creator/director 1983)</li> <li><i>Opera Opera!</i> (co-creator/director 1985)</li> <li><i>Rubble</i> (co-creator/director 1987)</li> <li><i>Pallas</i> (1987)</li> <li><i>Kurtz</i> (1991)</li> <li><i>Hot Shoe Shuffle</i> (co-written with Kathryn Riding, 1992)</li> <li><i>Complaints</i> (1996)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Radio_plays">Radio plays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Radio plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Santo</i> (1986)</li> <li><i>Complaints</i> (1993)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film">Film</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Ozymandias</i> (music film clip, director/producer/narrator, 1986)</li> <li><i>Movietone Memories</i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gino_(film)" title="Gino (film)">Gino</a></i> (feature co-written with <a href="/wiki/Vince_Sorrenti" title="Vince Sorrenti">Vince Sorrenti</a>, 1993)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ozymandias poetry-music film clip <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfNpityBTQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfNpityBTQ</a></li> <li>Interview with Judyth Piazza, SOP radio networks US <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://thesop.org/story/art/2009/12/28/judyth-piazza-chats-with-larry-buttrose-author-of-tales-of-the-popes.php">http://thesop.org/story/art/2009/12/28/judyth-piazza-chats-with-larry-buttrose-author-of-tales-of-the-popes.php</a></li> <li>Interview with ABC's Carol Duncan on Paul Keating's famous Redfern Speech <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120424013830/http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2010/08/paul-keatings-redfern-speech-larry-buttrose.html?site=newcastle&amp;program=newcastle_afternoons">https://web.archive.org/web/20120424013830/http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2010/08/paul-keatings-redfern-speech-larry-buttrose.html?site=newcastle&amp;program=newcastle_afternoons</a></li> <li>Book extract from The Blue Man published in The Independent <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/travel-songs-of-bitter-experience-1093712.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/travel-songs-of-bitter-experience-1093712.html</a></li> <li>Ockham's Razor on Science and Religion <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2675731.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2675731.htm</a></li> <li>Ockham's Razor, critique of Postmodern Theory <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2006/1785351.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2006/1785351.htm</a></li> <li>Opinion piece in The Australian on the international crisis of capitalism <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/economic-abyss-awaits/story-e6frg7b6-1111118084331">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/economic-abyss-awaits/story-e6frg7b6-1111118084331</a></li> <li>Reflections upon surviving a brutal Catholic education, published in the Sydney Morning Herald <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/surviving-an-unholy-school-war/2008/05/16/1210765174220.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/surviving-an-unholy-school-war/2008/05/16/1210765174220.html</a></li> <li>Griffith Review – Profile on Larry Buttrose <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.griffithreview.com/contributors/larry-buttrose">http://www.griffithreview.com/contributors/larry-buttrose</a></li> <li>Larry Buttrose – Personal blog <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://larrybuttrose.blogspot.com/">http://larrybuttrose.blogspot.com/</a></li> <li>Guide to the Papers of Larry Buttrose at The University of New South Wales – <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://lib.unsw.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/finding_aids/buttrose_larry.html">http://lib.unsw.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/finding_aids/buttrose_larry.html</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Larry_Buttrose&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">National Library of Australia listing for Larry Buttrose – Australian Writer – <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/458941?q=larry+buttrose&amp;c=people">http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/458941?q=larry+buttrose&amp;c=people</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Listing for 'Long Way Home' at the National Library of Australia - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178430398">http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178430398</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Republic of Australia" video clip - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://roadrunnertwice.com.au/2015/03/quietly-confident-republic-of-australia-2/">https://roadrunnertwice.com.au/2015/03/quietly-confident-republic-of-australia-2/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Record of Book held at <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Australia" title="National Library of Australia">National Library of Australia</a> first published in 1998 in Pymble, N.S.W.: By Flamingo Press <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/388473">http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/388473</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The King Neptune Day &amp; Night Club by Larry Buttrose, part of the Trove collection at the National Library of Australia – <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34862789">http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34862789</a>?</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cafe Royale by Larry Buttrose. Book held in the Trove collection at National Library of Australia – <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14981514">http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14981514</a>?</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Dead Famous' by Larry Buttrose – Published by New Holland – Entry for book on publishers website -<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.newholland.com.au/product.php?isbn=9781741105643">http://www.newholland.com.au/product.php?isbn=9781741105643</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tales of The Popes by Larry Buttrose. 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