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1938 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1938. Books * Martin Boyd – ''Night of the Party'' * Eleanor Dark – ''Waterway'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Fall of a Dictator'' * Xavier Herbert – '' Capricornia'' * Michael Innes – ''Lament for a Maker'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Age of Consent'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''Unfamiliar Faces'' * Nevil Shute – '' Ruined City'' * Christina Stead – ''House of All Nations'' * E. V. Timms – ''Maelstrom'' * Arthur Upfield – '' The Bone is Pointed'' Short stories * Alan Marshall – "Clarkey's Dead" * Katharine Susannah Prichard – "Marlene" Poetry * R. D. FitzGerald – '' Moonlight Acre'' * A. D. Hope – "Standardisation" * Jack Lindsay – "On Guard for Spain" * Jack Moses – ''Nine Miles from Gundagai'' * John Shaw Neilson ** ''Beauty Imposes : Some Recent Verse'' ** " The Crane is My Neighbour" Awards and honours Literary Births A list, ordered by da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Boyd
Martin à Beckett Boyd (10 June 1893 – 3 June 1972) was an Australian writer born into the à Beckett– Boyd family, a family synonymous with the establishment, the judiciary, publishing and literature, and the visual arts since the early 19th century in Australia. Boyd was a novelist, memoirist and poet who spent most of his life after World War I in Europe, primarily Britain. His work drew heavily on his own life and family, with his novels frequently exploring the experiences of the Anglo-Australian upper and middle classes. His writing was also deeply influenced by his experience of serving in World War One. Boyd's siblings included the potter Merric Boyd (1888–1959), painters Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923) and Helen à Beckett Read, née Boyd (1903–1999). He was intensely involved in family life and took a keen interest in the development of his nephews and nieces and their families, including potter Lucy Beck (1916-2009), painter Arthur Boyd (1920–1999), sculptor G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bone Is Pointed
''The Bone is Pointed'' (1938) is a novel by Australian writer Arthur Upfield. It was the sixth of the author's novels to feature his recurring character Detective Inspector Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte. It was originally published in the Australia by Angus & Robertson in 1938, and subsequently serialised in The Herald newspaper in Melbourne between September and November 1938, under the title ''Murder on the Station''. Abstract "'Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.' (Publication summary)" Location The action of the novel takes place around "Opal Town" or Opalton, Queensland in the Channel Country of the Diamantina River. Publishing history Following the book's initial publication by Angus & Robertson in 1938 it was subsequently published as follows: * Saunders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012. Events *Clive James is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to literature and the media" in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours List. *Five literary figures are named in the Australia Day Honours: Paul Brunton, Stuart Macintyre, Roy Masters, Ros Pesman and Carol Woodrow. * Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries' 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford "to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active: literature, culture, science, and communication". *Incoming Premier Campbell Newman cancels the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. *In response, a week later, the new Queensland Literary Awards are announced. The awards use a crowd-funding campaign to raise the prize-money for their initial set of awards. *Sophie Cunni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of ''The New York Times'' as "the most famous art critic in the world." Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on modern art, '' The Shock of the New'', and for his longstanding position as art critic with ''TIME'' magazine. He is also known for his best seller '' The Fatal Shore'' (1986), a study of the British convict system in early Australian history. Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists, Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes, although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp. His writing was noted for its power and elegance. Early life Hughes was born in Sydney, in 1938. His father and paternal grandfather were lawyers. Hughes's father, Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, was a pilot in the First World War, with later c ... [...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] |
Tony Morphett
Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer * Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby league footballer * Tony (footballer, born 1983), full name Tony Heleno da Costa Pinho, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Tony (footballer, born 1986), full name Antônio de Moura Carvalho, Brazilian football attacking midfielder * Tony (footballer, born 1989), full name Tony Ewerton Ramos da Silva, Brazilian football right-back Film, theater and television * Tony Awards, a Broadway theatre honor * ''Tony'' (1982 film), a Kannada film * ''Tony'' (2009 film), a British horror film directed by Gerard Johnson * ''Tony'' (2013 film), an Indian Kannada thriller film * "Tony" (''Skins'' series 1), an episode of British comedy-drama ''Skins'' * "Tony" (''Skins'' series 2), an episode of ''Skins'' Music * Tony T., stage name of British s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne. History MUP was founded in 1922 as Melbourne University Press to sell text books and stationery to students, and soon began publishing books itself. Over the years scholarly works published under the MUP imprint have won numerous awards and prizes. The name ''Melbourne University Publishing'' was adopted for the business in 2003 following a restructure by the university, but books continue to be published under the ''Melbourne University Press'' imprint. The Miegunyah Press is an imprint of MUP, established in 1967 under a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Russell Grimwade, with the intention of subsidising the publication of illustrated scholarly works that would otherwise be uneconomic to publish. Grimwade's great-grandnephew Andrew Grimwade is the present patron. ''Miegunyah'' is from an Aboriginal Australian language, meaning "my house". [...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] |
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] |
Jack Moses
Jack Moses (12 January 1861 – 10 July 1945)Rutledge, Martha, 'Moses, John (Jack) (1861–1945)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moses-john-jack-13114/text23729, accessed 9 September 2011 was an Australian outback bush poet who wrote the poem "''The dog sat on the tuckerbox''" from which the well-known Dog on the Tuckerbox monument and the Nine and Five Mile legend of Gundagai were inspired.National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42449438? Early life Jack Moses was born in Haymarket, New South Wales, 'when cows grazed in Hyde Park'. His grandfather of Jewish origins, John Moses arrived as a convict to Hobart on a seven-year sentence, before marrying an Irish lass, Mary Conolly, before moving to the Colony of New South Wales to become a pastry cook in Parramatta. His father, also John, had a grocery store, and Jack would go around with the delivery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lindsay (writer)
Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay. Early life Lindsay was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, from which he graduated with first class honours in Greek and Latin.Gillen, Paul. ''Lindsay, John (Jack) (1900–1990).'' Australian Dictionary of Biography On 27 October 1922 at the district registrar’s office, Waverton, he married Janet Beaton, granddaughter of W. B. Dalley. He started his literary career in 1923 as a poet with a book ''Fauns and Ladies'', illustrated by his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |