Julian Evans (writer)
# Julian Evans (writer)

Julian Evans is an Australian writer and presenter.

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. This launched him on a career as a writer of books, travel articles, essays, and radio and television documentaries on literary subjects. He is also a translator and a reviewer for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement and Prospect. His most recent full-length book was Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (2008), which was reviewed favourably; Evans wrote about writer and adventurer Norman Lewis after he described Evans's first book, Transit of Venus, as "far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times."

## Works

* Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (Jonathan Cape, June 2008, Picador June 2009)
* I sotteranei del Vaticano: rereading André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican (Metauro Edizioni, Pesaro 2006)
* "Remettez-moi ça" ("Really very fortunate"), La Revue Littéraire vol.1 no.1, April 2004
* "Un gâchis" ("A waste"), L'Atelier du Roman no. 29, March 2002
* José Saramago: A Life of Resistance (BBC Four film), 2002
* The Romantic Road (BBC Radio 3 20-part radio series), 2000-2
* Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific (Secker & Warburg 1992, Pantheon 1992 (US); revised edition Eland Books 2014)
