Simon Caterson

Simon Caterson writes on literature, art, IDeaS, history and popular culture for a variety of newspapers and magazines. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and trained there as a lawyer before traveling to Ireland where he completed a postgraduate degree in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Subsequently he produced a doctoral thesis on the Anglo-Irish novelist James Gordon Farrell.

Since the early 1990s when his work began appearing in The Age and The Australian, Caterson has published hundreds of pieces, which mostly comprise essays, features, InterViews and reviews. In 2004 he had a six-month stint as a columnist at the Sunday Age.

One of Caterson's essays, 'Building the total university', was selected by Robert Dessaix for his 2005 EDition of the Best Australian Essays annual. Caterson wrote introductions to new editions of Australian classics The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and Madame Midas, both by Fergus Hume, and The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederick Manning.

Caterson's work is wide-ranging, encompassing Samuel Alexander and The Simpsons. More than once, Caterson has apparently advocated the move towards an Australian republic. He has also written at some length on Ned Kelly. His 2000 essay on the writings of Chopper Read, which appeared in the Australian Book Review, was described in The Age at the time as "seminal".

  • 1 "A plagiarism on them all"
  • 2 "A true history of American hoaxes"
  • 3 "Peacock's tail fans our flames"
  • 4 "Hell to pay when man bites God"
  • 5 "Raiders of the lost art"
  • 6 "A world apart"
  • 7 "Bohemian rhapsody"
  • 8 "The best Australian film you've never seen"
  • 9 "Royal showbiz and the Australian republic"
  • 10 "Irish-Australian attitudes"
  • 11 "War in time of football"
  • 12 "Building the total university"
  • 13 "Towards a cricket history of Australia"
  • 14 "Desperate, moi?"
  • 15 "There's trouble in patriarchy"
  • 16 "Expatriate games"
  • 17 "What goes around ..."
  • 18 "Egalitarian TV?"
  • 19 "When in Rome ..."
  • 20 "Ned Kelly: The myth in the iron mask"
  • 21 "Heart of darkness"

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