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1933 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1933. Books * Eric Baume – ''Half Caste'' * Miles Franklin – ''Bring the Monkey'' * Ion Idriess – ''Drums of Mer'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Pageant'' * Norman Lindsay ** '' Pan in the Parlour'' ** ''Saturdee'' * Louise Mack – ''Teens Triumphant'' * Jack McLaren – ''The Money Stones'' * Harold Mercer – '' Amazon Island'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''Protecting Margot'' * F. J. Thwaites – ''Flames of Convention'' * Arthur W. Upfield – ''The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery'' Short stories * Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Bride of Far-Away" * Henry Handel Richardson ** "The Professor's Experiment" ** "The Wrong Turning" Children's and Young Adult * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Billabong's Luck'' * Kenneth Slessor – ''Funny Farmyard'' * Dorothy Wall – ''Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian'' Poetry * E. J. Brady – ''Wardens of the Seas : Poems' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Baume
Eric Ehrenfried Baume Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (29 May 190024 April 1967) was a New Zealand-born Australian based journalist, novelist, radio presenter, actor and television talk show host. Early life Eric Baume was born Frederick Ehrenfried Baume in Auckland, New Zealand in 1900. His father, of the Frederick Baume, same name, was a lawyer and politician; his mother, Rosetta Baume, was a teacher and community worker, and one of the first women to stand for Parliament in New Zealand. Eric moved to Sydney in the early 1920s and worked for as editor for several papers. At this time he developed what was to become a lifelong addiction to gambling, which kept his family in debt for decades. Career Baume wrote thirteen books, mostly novels, including ''Half Caste'' (1933). Film rights were purchased in 1946 by United Artists. He hosted a radio series titled ''This I Believe (TV series), This I Believe''. A television version aired on ATN-7 from 3 December 195 ... [...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] |
Kevin Gilbert (author)
Kevin John Gilbert (10 July 1933 – 1 April 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. A Wiradjuri man, Gilbert was born on the banks of the Lachlan River in New South Wales. Gilbert was the first Aboriginal playwright and printmaker. He was an active human rights defender and was involved in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972 as well as various protests to advocate for Aboriginal Australian sovereignty. Gilbert won the 1978 National Book Council prize for writers, for ''Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert'' (1977). Early life Gilbert was the youngest of eight children, born on 10 July 1933 to a Wiradjuri mother and an Irish/English father. He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condobolin">/ref> He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condobolin in New South Wales and at age seven he and his siblings were orphaned. He was raised by his el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications Literary fiction * Peter Carey – ''A Long Way from Home'' * Felicity Castagna – ''No More Boats'' * J. M. Coetzee – ''The Schooldays of Jesus'' * Michelle de Kretser — ''The Life to Come'' * Robert Drewe — ''Whipbird'' * Richard Flanagan – ''First Person'' * Sofie Laguna — ''The Choke'' *Catherine McKinnon – ''Storyland: The land is a book, waiting to be read'' * Alex Miller — ''The Passage of Love'' * Bram Presser — ''The Book of Dirt'' * Kim Scott — ''Taboo'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Judith Clarke – ''My Lovely Frankie'' *Zana Fraillon – ''The Ones That Disappeared'' * Morris Gleitzman – ''Maybe'' (sequel to ''Once'', ''Then'', ''Now'', ''After'', ''Soon'') * Andy Griffiths – ''The Tree House Fun Book 2'' and ''The 91-Storey Treehouse'' * Jessica Townsend – '' Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow'' Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Zwicky
Fay Zwicky (4 July 1933 – 2 July 2017) was an Australian poet, short story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem ''Kaddish'', which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer. Life Born Julia Fay Rosefield, Zwicky grew up in suburban Melbourne. Her family was fourth generation Australian—her father, a doctor; her mother, a musician. Zwicky was an accomplished pianist by the age of six, and performed with her violinist and cellist sisters while still at school. After completing her schooling at Anglican institutions, she entered the University of Melbourne in 1950, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1954. Descended from European Jews, she described herself as an "outsider" ("I was ashamed of my foreign interloper status") from an "Anglo-Saxon dominated" Australian culture. She began publishing poetry as an undergraduate, thereafter working as a musician, extensively touring Europe, America and South-East Asia between 1955 and 1965. She se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2008. Events *"The Bulletin" magazine publishes its last issue, the first was in 1880 *The Australia Council for the Arts announces Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane as recipients of its 2008 emeritus writers awards *The Australian Federal Government announces funding for a new chair of Australian Literature based at the University of Western Australia *Clunes, Victoria, holds its second Booktown weekend *The first Crime and Justice Festival in held in Melbourne over the weekend of 19–20 July *Australia wins the right to host the 2010 World SF convention in Melbourne *A number of previously unknown Banjo Paterson poems are found in an old cash book dating back to the Boer War *UNESCO names Melbourne as its second City of Literature, after Edinburgh received the first such award in 2004 * Caro Llewellyn, a former director of the Sydney Writers' Festival and PEN World Voices Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Button (Australian Politician)
John Norman Button (30 June 19338 April 2008) was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for the Button car plan, which involved modernising Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection. Biography Button was born in Ballarat, Victoria, and was educated at The Geelong College and the University of Melbourne where he graduated in arts and law. He became a lawyer with Maurice Blackburn & Co and later a barrister in Melbourne and became active in the Australian Labor Party from the late 1950s. In the 1960s he joined a group of other middle-class Labor activists, such as John Cain, Barry Jones, Richard McGarvie, Frank Costigan and Michael Duffy, known as "the Participants" whose objective was to end Left-wing control of the Victorian branch of the Labor Party. In 1963, Button was invited to run as the Labor candidate for the seat of Chisholm, which was safely held by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Smith (poet)
Vivian Brian Smith (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation. Early life Smith was born in Hobart, Tasmania and studied French at the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with a Master of Arts. He left Tasmania in the late 1950s and has lived since then in Sydney, where he was a longtime professor at the University of Sydney until his retirement in the early 2000s. He returns to Tasmania every year and his poetry is still influenced by the landscape there. Smith has published criticism as well as a bibliography of the work of Patrick White.Smith, Vivian ''AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource'', 14 October 2008. He has been an advocate of Australian literature and of many individual Australian writers. ...
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Jennifer Strauss
Jennifer Strauss (born January 30, 1933) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Strauss is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and Melbourne University. Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing anthologies and several volumes of her own poetry. The current president of the Australian Federation of University Women Strauss is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Monash University. In 2007, Strauss was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for her work in education, her work as an academic in the fields of literature and poetry and for her work in woman's issues and industrial relations. Works Poetry *''Children and Other Strangers: Poems''. (1975) *''Winter Driving: Poems''. (1981) *''Labour Ward''. (Pariah, 1988) *''Tierra del Fuego: New and sele ... [...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] |
Tall Timber
Tall Timber may refer to: * ''Tall Timber'' (1928 film), a 1928 silent animated short film * ''Tall Timber'' (1926 film), a 1926 Australian silent film * ''Park Avenue Logger'', also known as ''Tall Timber'', a 1937 film * Tall Timber, Colorado Tall Timber is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Tall Ti ..., United States See also * Tall Timbers (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Wall
Dorothy Wall (12 January 1894 – 21 January 1942) was a New Zealand-born writer and illustrator of children's fiction books. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books ''Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian'' (1933), ''Blinky Bill Grows Up'' (1934) and ''Blinky Bill and Nutsy'' (1937). Most of her books were first published by Angus & Robertson. Biography Wall was born in Kilbirnie, New Zealand on 12 January 1894 of English parents, Charles James William Wall and Lillian née Palethorpe. In 1904, at the age of ten, she won scholarships for her art. She migrated to Australia in 1914 and worked for '' The Sun'' newspaper in Sydney. In 1920 her first children's story "Tommy Bear and the Zookies" was published and the following year she married Andrew Delfosse Badgery. The same year Wall found some acclaim for her illustrations in J.J. Hall's book "The Crystal Bowl". Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
