Julian Evans (writer)
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Julian Evans is a British-Australian writer.
In 1990 he left his office job to become a writer and spent six months travelling among the islands of the south Pacific Ocean. In 1992 he published Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific.[1] This launched him on a career as a writer of books, travel articles, essays, and radio and television documentaries on literary subjects. In 2008 he published Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis;[2] Evans wrote about writer and adventurer Norman Lewis after Lewis described Evans's Transit of Venus as "far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times."[3] His most recent book is Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War (2024), a personal history of his involvement with the city over 30 years. He is also a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement and Prospect.[4]
