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1930 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1930. Books * Marie Bjelke-Petersen – ''Monsoon Music'' * Jean Devanny ** ''Bushman Burke'' ** ''Devil Made Saint'' * Miles Franklin – '' Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Shadow of Larose'' * Mary Gaunt – ''Joan of the Pilchard'' * Xavier Herbert – ''Black Velvet'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Redheap'' * Lennie Lower – '' Here's Luck'' * Vance Palmer ** ''Men are Human'' ** ''The Passage'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''The Young and Secret'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Cripple in Black'' * Arthur W. Upfield – ''The Beach of Atonement'' Young Adult * Alice Grant Rosman – ''Jock the Scot'' * Lilian Turner – ''There Came a Call'' Poetry * Minnie Agnes Filson – ''Rhymes & Whimsies'' * Mary Gil ... [...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] |
Lilian Turner
Lilian Turner (21 August 1867 – 25 August 1956) was an Australian writer. Biography Lilian Wattnall Burwell was born 21 August 1867. She was the elder sister of Ethel Turner Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. Life She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah J ... and the daughter of Bennett George and Sarah Jane Burwell. Bennett George Burwell died when Lilian was still a young child, and her mother married a widower, Henry Turner, a year later. Both Lilian and Ethel would later take their step-father's name for their professional writing careers. Sarah and Henry had a daughter, Jeannie Rose (born 1873), but Henry died suddenly in 1878. The next year, Sarah traveled to Australia with her three kids, where she fell in love with and wed Charles Cope in Sydney. Lilian and Ethel were educated at Sydney Girls' High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018. Major publications Literary fiction * Michael Mohammed Ahmad, ''The Lebs'' * Robbie Arnott, ''Flames'' * Trent Dalton, '' Boy Swallows Universe (novel)'' * Gregory Day, ''A Sand Archive'' * Ceridwen Dovey, ''In the Garden of the Fugitives'' * Rodney Hall, ''A Stolen Season'' * Gail Jones, '' The Death of Noah Glass'' * Eleanor Limprecht, ''The Passengers'' * Melissa Lucashenko, ''Too Much Lip'' * Jennifer Mills, ''Dyschronia'' * Heather Morris, ''The Tattooist of Auschwitz'' * Kate Morton, ''The Clockmaker's Daughter'' * Kristina Olsson, ''Shell'' * Ryan O'Neill, ''99 Interpretations of The Drover's Wife'' * Kim Scott, ''Taboo'' * Tim Winton, ''The Shepherd's Hut'' * Markus Zusak, ''Bridge of Clay'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Maxine Beneba Clarke, ''Wide Big World'', illustrated by Isobel Knowles * Mem Fox, ''Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again'', illustrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Blainey
Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including '' The Tyranny of Distance''. He has published over 40 books, including wide-ranging histories of the world and of Christianity. He has often appeared in newspapers and on television. He held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years. In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. He received the 1988 Britannica Award for 'exceptional excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind', the first historian to receive that awardEncyclopædia Britannica,"Book of the Year, 1988", Chicago, p. 15 and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000. He was once described by Graeme Davison as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020. Major publications Literary fiction *Patrick Allington, ''Rise & Shine'' *Robbie Arnott, ''The Rain Heron'' *James Bradley, ''Ghost Species'' *Trent Dalton, ''All Our Shimmering Skies'' * Jon Doust, ''Return Ticket'' * Chris Flynn, ''Mammoth'' *Anna Goldsworthy, ''Melting Moments'' *Kate Grenville, ''A Room Made of Leaves'' * Tom Keneally, ''The Dickens Boy'' *Sofie Laguna, ''Infinite Splendours'' * Bem Le Hunte, ''Elephants with Headlights'' *Carol Lefevre, ''Murmurations'' *Amanda Lohrey, ''The Labyrinth'' * Laura Jean McKay, ''The Animals in That Country'' *Ronnie Scott, ''The Adversary'' *Craig Silvey, ''Honeybee'' *Pip Williams, '' The Dictionary of Lost Words'' * Daniel Davis Wood, ''At the Edge of the Solid World'' *Evie Wyld, ''The Bass Rock'' Children's and young adult fiction * K.M. Allan, ''Blackbirch: The Beginning'' * Sarah Allen, ''Busy Beaks'' * Davina Bell, ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Dawe
Donald Bruce Dawe (15 February 1930 – 1 April 2020) was an Australian poet and academic. Some critics consider him one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.Australian Biography: Bruce Dawe, National Film and Sound Archive Accessed 19 February 2022 Dawe received numerous poetry awards in Australia and was named an . He taught literature in universities for over 30 years. Dawe's poetry collection, ''Sometimes Gladness,'' sold over 100,000 copies in several printings. Early life ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALS Gold Medal
The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, when the two organisations were merged. Award winners 2020s * 2022: Andy Jackson, ''Human Looking'' * 2021: Nardi Simpson – ''Song of the Crocodile'' *2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green — ''Nganajungu Yagu'' 2010s * 2019: Pam Brown — ''click here for what we do'' * 2018: Shastra Deo – ''The Agonist'' * 2017: Zoe Morrison – ''Music and Freedom'' * 2016: Brenda Niall – ''Mannix'' * 2015: Jennifer Maiden – ''Drones and Phantoms'' * 2014: Alexis Wright – '' The Swan Book'' * 2013: Michelle de Kretser – '' Questions of Travel'' * 2012: Gillian Mears – '' Foal's Bread'' * 2011: Kim Scott – ''That Deadman Dance'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Esson
Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (10 August 1878 – 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright. He was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players. His second wife, Hilda Esson (nee Bull), had a career in theatre besides working as a doctor in the field of public health. Early life and education Esson was born on 10 August 1878 at Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was three, along with his widowed mother. She had siblings in Melbourne, including artist John Ford Paterson, and Esson was raised mostly by his aunts. He attended the University of Melbourne from 1896, but did not finish his arts degree. Career Esson began working as a journalist and playwright afterwards, and visited London, Ireland, and Paris in 1904–1905. He met Irish playwrights J. M. Synge (in Paris) and W. B. Yeats (in Dublin), who suggested that he writes plays with Australian themes. He returned to Melbourne in 1906, hoping to establish the equiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, '' Careful, He Might Hear You''. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. World War II Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942, but instead of being posted overseas, he worked as a clerk in Australia. He used these experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, ''Rusty Bugles''. The play toured extensively throughout Australia and achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the Chief Secretary's Office. However, ''Rusty Bugles place in ... [...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] |
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] |
