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1923 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1923. Books * J. H. M. Abbott – ''Sydney Cove'' * Marie Bjelke Petersen – ''Jewelled Nights'' * Capel Boake — ''The Romany Mark'' * Bernard Cronin – ''Salvage'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Red Paste Murders'' * Mary Gaunt – ''As the Whirlwind Passeth'' * Nat Gould – ''Beating the Favourite'' * D. H. Lawrence – ''Kangaroo'' * Jack McLaren – ''Fagaloa's Daughter'' * Catherine Martin – ''The Incredible Journey'' Short stories * Henry Lawson – "Elder Man's Lane : XV : The Passing of Elder Man's Lane" Children's and Young Adult fiction * Mary Grant Bruce ** ''The Cousin from Town'' ** ''The Twins of Emu Plains'' * Jean Curlewis – ''Beach Beyond'' * May Gibbs – ''Nuttybub and Nittersing'' Poetry * Emily Bulcock – ''Jacaranda Blooms and Other Poems'' * Mabel Forrest – "The Burning" * Mary Gilmore – "Second-Hand Beds" * Jack Lindsay ** "Budding Spring" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Bjelke Petersen
Marie Caroline Bjelke Petersen (23 December 1874 – 11 October 1969) was a Danish-Australian novelist and physical culture teacher. She wrote nine popular romance novels between 1917 and 1937. Her novels were set in Australia, mostly in rural Tasmania, and represent an alternative vision of Australia to that of earlier writers. Marie Bjelke Petersen's biographer, Alison Alexander, wrote: "With her Danish background Marie was not steeped in the laconic lore of the bush propagated by the ''Bulletin'' and its school of admirers, and she set out to glorify her adopted land, to depict Australia as a cultured civilised place, with charming people (setting aside the villains), a quite different portrayal from that usually found in the literature of her day." It has been claimed that her works were more popular in the United States and England than Australia.Wilde et al (1994) p. 95. Her biographer, Alexander (1994), questions this claim. Certainly Marie Bjelke Petersen was very wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem '' My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."'' Life The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar (née Buckland), the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home '' Dunara'' at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885. Her later home was ''Cintra'' at Darling Point (built in 1882 by John Mackintosh for his son James), and in 1925, she commissioned a summer cottage (in reality a substantial home with colonnaded verandah overlooking Pittwater), "Tarrangaua" at Lovett Bay, an isolated location on Pittwater reachable only by boat (this home is currently the residence of the novelist and author Susan Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Jolley
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.Hacket (2007) Her novels explore "alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment." Life Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrian-born mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands. She was educated privately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002. Major publications Literary fiction * J. M. Coetzee – '' Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II'' * Bryce Courtenay – '' Matthew Flinders' Cat'' * Andrea Goldsmith – '' The Prosperous Thief'' * Sonya Hartnett – ''Of a Boy'' * Sarah Hay – ''Skins'' * Chloe Hooper – ''A Child's Book of True Crime'' * Kate Jennings – '' Moral Hazard'' * Gail Jones – '' Black Mirror'' * Thomas Keneally – '' An Angel in Australia'' * Colleen McCullough – ''The October Horse'' * Alex Miller – '' Journey to the Stone Country'' * Dorothy Porter – ''Wild Surmise'' * Eva Sallis – ''The City of Sealions'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * J. C. Burke – ''White Lies'' * Isobelle Carmody – ''Darksong'' * Alison Croggon – ''The Gift'' * Mem Fox – '' The Magic Hat'' * Marieke Hardy – ''Short Cuts'' * Richard Harland – ''Ferren and the White Doctor'' * Lia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and ''avant garde''. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period. In her lifetime she had 22 plays performed, and she published nine collections of poetry, three novels and many other prose works. There have been four anthologies of her poetry. She received many awards and has been frequently included in Australian literature syllabuses at schools and universities. She was regularly interviewed by the media in her later years, and was often embroiled in controversy, even after her death. Early life and education Dorothy Coade Hewett was born on 21 May 1923 in Perth, Western Australia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2007. Events *''Surrender'' by Sonya Hartnett, and ''The Book Thief'' by Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. *"The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores. *The small township of Clunes, about 20 kilometres north of Ballarat in Victoria, decides to try to set up Australia's first dedicated booktown. The first weekend event takes place on 20 May. *AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), the major Australian literature resource for research and teaching housed at the University of Queensland, announces the commencement of "Black Words", a literary website specialising in Australian Indigenous writers and storytellers and their works. *Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop, announces that the Australian Government will allocate fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Rolls
Eric Charles Rolls Order of Australia, AM (1923–2007) was an Australian writer. Life Rolls was born in Grenfell, New South Wales in 1923, and died in Camden Haven in 2007. He attended the Sydney selective school of Fort Street High, before serving in the second world war in New Guinea, as a signaller. On his return from the war, he took up land in 1946 in the north-west of New South Wales (east of the Pilliga forest, Pilliga and later at "Cumberdeen", Baradine County, Baradine) and farmed and wrote, often spending long periods in Sydney, researching at the State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library. He had two happy marriages, the first with Joan Stephenson and after her death in 1985, a second with Elaine van Kempen (1937–2019), whom he met when she came to work for him in 1985 as his research assistant, and married in 1988. Work One of his most celebrated works is A Million Wild Acres of which Tom Griffiths (historian), Tom Griffiths (emeritus professor of histor ... [...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] |
Percy Trezise
Percy Trezise AM (28 January 1923 – 11 May 2005) was an Australian pilot, painter, explorer and writer as well as, notably, a discoverer, documenter and historian of Aboriginal rock art. He was born in Tallangatta, Victoria but is associated especially with Far North Queensland and the rock art galleries of the Cape York Peninsula. He died in Cairns, Queensland. Trezise was born in Tallangatta (northern Victoria), of Cornish descent, and attended a bush school followed by Albury Highschool. His interest in Aboriginal people began when he won a copy of the ''Red Centre'' written by Findlayson during his years at highschool. During World War II Trezise served in the Royal Australian Air Force, surviving the crash of a Wackett trainer in August 1942. From 1956 he worked in northern Australia as an airline pilot for Ansett and the Cairns Aerial Ambulance. From the air he learned to identify areas likely to contain Aboriginal rock art, which he subsequently explored on foot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, (17 September 187430 July 1970) was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Western Australia. A member of the prominent Australian Murdoch family, he was the father of Catherine, later prominent as Dr Catherine King (1904–2000), a radio broadcaster in Western Australia; the uncle of both Sir Keith, a journalist and newspaper executive, and Ivon, a soldier in the Australian Army; and the great uncle of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch University is named in Sir Walter's honour; as is Murdoch, the suburb surrounding its main campus, located in Perth, Western Australia. Background and early career Murdoch was born on 17 September 1874 at Rosehearty, Scotland to Rev. James Murdoch, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and his wife Helen, née Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 18832 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then moved to Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne '' Sun'' newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria, then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, ''The Pioneers'' (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize.Throssel, Ric "Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969", The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre (website) After her return to Australia, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him. Early life Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in Orange, New South Wales. As a boy, he lived in England for a time with his parents and in Australia visited the mines of rural New South Wales with his father, a Jewish mining engineer whose father and grandfather had been distinguished musicians in Germany. His family moved to Sydney in 1903. Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. His first published poem, "Goin'", about a wounded digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons, appeared in ''The Bulletin'' in 1917. Slessor passed the 1918 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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