Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose (born 9 November 1952) is an Australian novelist. Biography. Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990. He was President of Sydney PEN from 2002 to 2005, Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University from 2009 to 2010, and is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing both at the University of Adelaide and Bath Spa University, England. He  has written widely on contemporary art and literature from Asia and the Pacific. In 2016 Jose presented "Gifts from China" for the Eric Rolls Memorial Lecture. Since early 2017 Nicholas Jose has been involved in a research project, 'Other Worlds: Forms of "World Literature'", for which he is leading a theme on 'Antipodean China' exploring the relationship between Chinese literature and world literature.