Merlinda Bobis

Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning writer and Honorary Senior Lecturer at ANU. Her literary and scholarly work explores gender, migration, trauma, and decolonization through novels, poetry, and performance art.

Major awards include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Canberra Critics’ Circle Award, and multiple Philippine National Book Awards. Her research integrates creative practice with critical analysis of transnational identities and cultural borders.

Publications demonstrate sustained engagement with Filipino-Australian diasporic experiences, employing multilingual narratives and hybrid literary forms.