Gerald Glaskin
Gerald Marcus Glaskin (16 December 1923 – 11 March 2000) was an Australian writer. He published poetry, short stories, and novels, and some works touched on science fiction and dream interpretation. He also wrote under the name Neville Jackson.
Glaskin was born in North Perth, Western Australia, and went to Perth Modern School. He served in World War II in the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. He helped run the Western Australian Fellowship of Australian Writers.
There is a claim that he won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1955, but later research shows this was not true. He did receive a grant in 1957, but could not keep it because he was living outside Australia at the time.
He spent much of his life abroad, mainly in Asia and the Netherlands, returning to Perth in 1967. Part of his move was due to Australia’s restrictive climate toward homosexuality at the time. He was charged with indecent exposure on a Perth beach in 1961.
Glaskin wrote about the Christos experiment and produced several related works. His novel A Waltz Through the Hills was made into a 1988 film of the same name. His most commercially successful work was No End To The Way (1965), a novel about a homosexual love affair published under Neville Jackson. It was banned in Australia, and the publication helped prompt censorship actions. The book drew on his experiences with Dutch men.
No End To The Way led to a long relationship with Dutch genealogist Leo van de Pas, with whom he lived from 1968 until his death. He was also a quiet financial backer of The Coffee Pot, Perth’s late-night cafe for homosexuals, bohemians, and students—the city’s only late-night cafe at the time.
In 1967 Glaskin met the British writer Iris Murdoch when she visited Australia, and in a letter she praised a Western Australian novelist she had met, mentioning him by name.
Gerald Glaskin died in Perth on 11 March 2000.
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