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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) is an Australian journalist, political adviser and English literature academicWEB,weblink Salusinszky, Imre, AustLit Database, 17 March 2007, who is currently media adviser to former Australian Government Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, Paul Fletcher.WEB,weblink Media Release: Investing in Australia's national cultural institutions, Paul Fletcher media releases, 26 September 2020,

Background and career

Born in Budapest, Salusinszky and his family came to Australia as refugees following the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in English literature.WEB He was an editorial advisor for Quadrant, a political reporter and columnist for The Australian, and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term. Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions praised his appointment: "I think it's terrific," he said. "Fresh blood with a good knowledge of the industry." However, former Australia Council Chair, Hilary McPhee, criticised it as right-wing political bias.NEWS, Ziffer, Daniel, Steger, Jason, Grattan, Michelle,weblink Arts body postings under fire, The Age, 17 June 2006, 2 January 2011, Michelle Grattan, Salusinszky served as media adviser for former Premier of New South Wales, Mike Baird, from 2013 and 2017.In 2019 Salusinsky published, The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga, which denied the existence of evidence of a conspiracy and provided evidence that Pederick was responsible for the Sydney Hilton Bombing.WEB, Salusinszky, Imre, September 29, 2019, Evan Pederick, the Ananda Marga, and the Sydney Hilton bombing,weblink 22 June 2021, The Sydney Morning Herald, It was shortlisted for the 2020 Nib Literary Award.WEB, 1 September 2020, Nib Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced,weblink 1 September 2020, Books+Publishing, en-AU, In 2023, he was a visiting scholar at the ELTE School of English and American Studies.WEB, profile for Imre Salusinszky,weblink 2023-06-07, seas3.elte.hu,

Bibliography

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• BOOK, Salusinszky, Imre, Criticism in society : interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Lentricchia and J. Hillis Miller,weblink registration, London, Methuen, 1987,
• {{Citation|year=1993|title=Gerald Murnane|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-553422-0|title-link=Gerald Murnane}}
• {{Citation|editor=Davies, J. M. Q.|year=1994|chapter=Deconstruction in the Classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion|title=Bridging the gap: literary theory in the classroom|publisher=Locust Hill Press|isbn=0-933951-60-4|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bridginggapliter0000unse}}
• JOURNAL, Salusinszky, Imre, Oct 1995, Thomas Keneally : my part in his downfall, Quadrant, 39, 10, 23–26,
• BOOK, June 1996, vol. 23 no. 2, Visionary Frye, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 590–593, 0319-051X,
• {{Citation|author=(editor)|year=1999|orig-year=1997|title=The Oxford book of Australian essays|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-553739-4}}
• {{Citation|author=co-authored with Boyd, David|year=c. 1999|title=Rereading Frye: the published and unpublished works|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=0-8020-4252-X}}
• {{Citation|editor=Womack, Kenneth|year=2002|chapter=Northrop Frye (1912–1991)|title=The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory|publisher=Continuum|isbn=0-8264-1414-1|display-editors=etal}}
• {{Citation|author=co-edited with Melleuish, Gregory|year=2002|title=Blaming ourselves: September 11 and the agony of the left|publisher=Duffy & Snellgrove|isbn=1-876631-37-6}}
• {{Citation|author=(editor)|year=c. 2005|title=Northrop Frye's writings on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=0-8020-3824-7}}
• {{Citation|editor=Donaldson, Jeffery|editor2=Mendelson, Alan|year=2004|chapter=In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum|title=Frye and the word: religious contexts in the writings of Northrop Frye|publisher=University of Toronto Press|pages=43–58|isbn=0-8020-8813-9}}
• BOOK, Salusinszky, Imre, The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga, Melbourne University Press, 2019, 9780522875492, Melbourne, Australia,

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