Maria Tumarkin, now a Melbourne historian, is never a bore. ... for the most part her account is fascinating, even exhilarating, and there is barely a dead word in the book.

Robert Dessaix, The Age
... even the English language becomes in Tumarkin?s hands a defiantly idiosyncratic tool. Thanks to this highly individual voice, Otherland is another smart and provocative read.

Judith Armstrong, ABR
   
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"What it means to be a real journalist", Inside Story, 28 April 2010
 
Doing a week's worth of blogging for Random House's author blog.
 
"Otherland" is released by Random House on the 1st of April 2010.
 
The latest articles:
 
25 February 2010
The sound of Silence, The Age, 6 February 2010 (excerpt)

 
5 May 2009
From an Unconscious State, Griffith Review Edition 24
Mining the Mother Lode, The Age, 18 April 2009
The price is right but not for an untouchable, The Sunday Age, 5 April 2009
 
2009 - ongoing
Currently working as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne on the international "Social Memory and Historical Justice" project. Will have some ideas on this topic to share here shortly.
 
23 February 2009
Talk- 'Beyond the Clinical Paradigm of Trauma and Recovery' with Anita Milicevic, Department of Psychiatry, the University of Melbourne.
 
Biography
Born in 1974 in the former Soviet Union in a Russian Jewish family, which in 1989 immigrated to Australia. Author of "Traumascapes" (2005) and "Courage" (2007). Third book on the way. Live in Melbourne with my two kids. More to come.
 

Otherland
traumaspaces
Otherland is the story of a six-week trip traversing three generations, three lifetimes and three profoundly different but profoundly interconnected stories of mothers and daughters.
 
Traumascapes
traumaspaces
Traumascapes is a story about the fate and power of places across the world marked by pain, violence and loss.
 
Courage
courage
People care desperately about courage. For once, I am one of the people. Do you want to know what it means to care desperately?
 
 
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