in 1989 gerald ganglbauer, a young austrian publisher, arrived in australia and started collecting australian short stories, experimental prose, and poetry. back then australian literature was largely unknown in german speaking countries, and he had the ambition to change that with "gangaroo" (a coinage of the words "ganglbauer" and "kangaroo"), the imprint of now sydney based small press "gangan books austr(al)ia". together with bernard cohen, rudi krausmann and michael wilding, he created "the ozlit collection" in three volumes: vol. 1: "air mail from down under" (short stories, translated into german), vol. 2: "malevolent fiction", was not published in print, but online (in parts) and vol. 3: "made in australia" (poetry, bilingual english/german).