Description
This hoax also known as the Ern Malley Affair is Australia’s most famous literary hoax. It is named after Ernest Lalor “Ern” Mele, a fictional poet whose biography and body of work were created in 1943 by conservative writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in One Day to spoof Angry Penguins, a centrepiece of a modern art and literary movement around a journal of the same name, in collaboration with poet Max Harris and Art Patron John Reed, Heide, Melbourne.