Di Gribble

How very sad to learn that Di Gribble has died. Like Colin Haycraft (although also very different from him), she was a publisher who was happy to encourage original but unknown writing. Without her, would we ever have heard from Helen Garner? Bringing her clear, penetrating and always immensely readable work to our attention is achievement enough, but I suspect Gribble did far more than that for Australian literature. Why, why, is it always the good ones that get taken?