Gaita’s literary prize not Jack

By Joseph Hinchliffe
Updated August 4 2015 - 5:34pm, first published 11:52am
PUT IN PLACE: Raimond Gaita on the balcony of his Baringhup home, overlooking the landscape celebrated in his award-winning book 'Romulus my Father'. Picture: JODIE WIEGARD
PUT IN PLACE: Raimond Gaita on the balcony of his Baringhup home, overlooking the landscape celebrated in his award-winning book 'Romulus my Father'. Picture: JODIE WIEGARD

“THEY called him Jack,” Raimond Gaita wrote in the book which put the Moolort Plains on the literary map, “...it never seriously occurred to them to call my father by his name, Romulus.”

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