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1915 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1915. Novels * Arthur H. Adams – ''Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical Romance'' * Mary Grant Bruce — ''From Billabong to London'' * James Francis Dwyer ** ''Breath of the Jungle'' ** ''The Green Half-Moon'' * Sumner Locke – ''Skeeter Farm Takes a Spell'' * Rosa Praed – ''Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: A Story of Australian Life'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''The Pioneers'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Cub: Six Months in His Life: A Story in War-Time'' * Lilian Turner – ''War's Heart Throbs'' Short stories * Vance Palmer – ''The World of Men'' * Arthur Wright (writer), Arthur Wright – ''A Sport from Hollowlog Flat'' Poetry * Zora Cross – "A Song of Mother Love" * C. J. Dennis ** "Ginger Mick" ** ''The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'' ** "The Stones of Gosh" * Mabel Forrest ** ''The Green Harper'' ** "wikisource:Wounded Soldiers, Wounded Soldiers" * Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur H
Arthur Higelin (born 27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H (), is a French pianist, songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances—four of his albums were recorded live. Life and career He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois, and half brother of singers Izïa Higelin and stage and film actor, theatre director and music video director Kên Higelin. After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, the Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango. He first performed in 1988 in clubs in Paris, as leader of a trio with bassist Brad Scott and drummer Paul Jothy. His first album, ''Arthur H'' (1990), combined rhythmic experimentation and '' bal-musette'' elements with a vocal style which has been compared to Tom W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poetry, Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the VicRoads, Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest Lyric poetry, lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. Early life Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia, Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish people, Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Isle of Skye, Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844. John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005. Events *Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of three judges in late 2004 * Murray Bail is accused of plagiarism over several passages in his novel ''Eucalyptus''. Bail later accepts the breach and intends adding an acknowledgment in future editions *The Victorian town of Shepparton unveils a statue of Joseph Furphy, author of ''Such is Life'' *Collins Booksellers, Australia's third largest national bookseller, goes into voluntary administration Major publications Literary fiction * Diane Armstrong – ''Winter Journey'' * Anne Bartlett – ''Knitting'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''March'' * Brian Castro – ''The Garden Book'' * J.M. Coetzee – ''Slow Man'' * Gregory Day – '' The Patron Saint of Eels'' * Robert Drewe – ''Grace'' * Arabella Edge – ''The God of Spring'' * Delia Falconer – ''The Lost Though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Thwaites
Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO (30 May 1915 – 1 November 2005) was an Australian academic, poet, and intelligence officer. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Brisbane, to Yorkshire immigrant Robert Ernest Thwaites who taught at Brisbane Grammar School and Jessie Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Nelson, a previous premier of Queensland. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, entering Trinity College at the University of Melbourne from which he graduated in 1937. As a student he came into contact with the Oxford Group (later Moral Rearmament), whose ideas greatly influenced him. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize (1938) for poetry and the King's Gold Medal for Poetry (1940). He was the first Australian to win either of these prizes, and is still the only Australian to have won the Newdigate Prize. Naval and intelligence career Thwaites joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was an officer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Auchterlonie Green
Dorothy Auchterlonie (also known as Dorothy Green) (28 May 1915 – 21 February 1991) was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet. Life Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England. In 1927 when she was 12 years old, her family moved to Australia. Educated in both England and Australia, Auchterlonie went on to study at the University of Sydney, where she completed a first-class honours and then an M.A. in English. During her time there Auchterlonie became a member of an elite group that included the brilliant and flamboyant poet James McAuley, Joan Fraser (who wrote under the pseudonym Amy Witting), Harold Stewart, Oliver Somerville, Alan Crawford and Ronald Dunlop. James McAuley and Harold Stewart were later to become notorious for perpetrating the Ern Malley hoax. The group was described by Peter Coleman in his book on James McAuley, as the 'sourly brilliant literary circle', an oblique reference to Thomas de Quincey. In 1944, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011. Events *Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe *Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts *Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading *Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day * Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011 *Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club *Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund * Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1985. Events * Christopher Koch won the 1985 Miles Franklin Award for '' The Doubleman'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley — ''Beachmasters'' * Peter Carey — ''Illywhacker'' * Sumner Locke Elliott — ''About Tilly Beamis'' * David Foster — ''Dog Rock'' * Kate Grenville — '' Lilian's Story'' * Barbara Hanrahan — ''Annie Magdalene'' * Thomas Keneally — '' A Family Madness'' * Christopher Koch — '' The Doubleman'' Short story collections * David Malouf — '' Antipodes'' * Olga Masters — ''A Long Time Dying'' Crime and mystery * Peter Corris — ''Make Me Rich'' Children's and young adult fiction * Pamela Allen — ''A Lion in the Night'' * Duncan Ball — ''Selby's Secret'' * Thurley Fowler – ''The Green Wind'' * Robin Klein — '' Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left'' * Gillian Rubinstein — '' Space Demons'' Poetry * Robert G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manifold
John Streeter Manifold (21 April 1915 – 19 April 1985) was an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Melbourne, into a well known Camperdown family. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, and read modern languages at Jesus College, Cambridge. While in Cambridge he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was involved in an attempt to create a successor (''Poetry and the People'') to ''Left Review'', when the latter folded in 1938. He then worked in Germany, in publishing. During World War II, he served in intelligence in the British Army, in the Middle East, Africa and France. He was a published war poet; ''Trident'', with Hubert Nicholson and David Martin, was published by Randall Swingler's Fore Publications in 1944. In 1949, he returned to Australia, settling in Brisbane. He was a founder in 1950 of the Realist Writers Group. He then worked and published mostly on Australian songs and music, reciting ballads at arts festivals. In the 1984 Australia Day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1991. Events * David Malouf won the Miles Franklin Award for ''The Great World'' Major publications Novels * Peter Carey — ''The Tax Inspector'' * Brian Castro — ''Double-Wolf'' * Bryce Courtenay — '' Tandia'' * Robert Drewe — '' Our Sunshine'' * David Foster — ''Mates of Mars'' * Alan Gould — ''To the Burning City'' * Rodney Hall — ''The Second Bridegroom'' * Thomas Keneally ** '' Chief of Staff'' (as by "William Coyle") ** '' Flying Hero Class'' * Colleen McCullough — '' The Grass Crown'' * Gillian Mears — ''The Mint Lawn'' * Morris West — '' The Ringmaster'' * Tim Winton — '' Cloudstreet'' Short stories * Lily Brett – ''What God Wants'' * Suzanne Edgar — ''Counting Backwards and Other Stories'' Crime and mystery * Jon Cleary — '' Pride's Harvest'' * Peter Corris ** ''Aftershock'' ** ''Wet Graves'' * Garry Disher — ''Kickback' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manning Clark
Charles Manning Hope Clark, (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian", but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservative and classical liberal academics and philosophers. Early life Clark was born in Sydney on 3 March 1915, the son of the Reverend Charles Clark, an English-born Anglican priest from a working-class background (he was the son of a London carpenter), and Catherine Hope, who came from an old Australian establishment family. On his mother's side he was a descendant of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, the "flogging parson" of early colonial New South Wales. Clark had a difficult relationship with his mother, who never forgot her superior social origins, and came to identify her with the Protestant middle class he so vigorous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertram Stevens (critic)
Bertram William Mathyson Francis Stevens (8 October 1872 – 14 February 1922) was Australian journal editor (''Single Tax''; ''Native Companion''; ''Art in Australia''; ''Lone Hand''); literary and art critic; and anthologist (''An Anthology of Australian Verse'' Henry_Lawson.html" ;"title="hich contained five poems by Henry Lawson">hich contained five poems by Henry Lawson ''The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse'').Ken Stewart,Stevens, Bertram William Mathyson Francis (1872 - 1922), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, MUP, 1990, pp 77-78. Retrieved 10 March 2010 Stevens was born at Inverell, New South Wales, the eldest child of William Mathison Stevens and his wife Marian, ''née'' Cafe, from Queanbeyan. By 1882 Stevens moved with his family to Newtown, Sydney where he was educated at public schools. Stevens was an avid reader and developed a wide knowledge and culture. In 1895 he began a fifteen-year period as a solicitor's clerk and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountain Squatter
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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