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1946 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1946. Books * James Aldridge – ''Of Many Men'' * Dora Birtles – ''The Overlanders : A Novel'' * Capel Boake – ''The Twig is Bent'' * Martin Boyd – ''Lucinda Brayford'' * Errol Flynn – ''Showdown'' * Miles Franklin – ''My Career Goes Bung'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''This Other Eden'' * Michael Innes ** ''From London Far'' ** ''What Happened at Hazlewood'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''The Roaring Nineties'' * Christina Stead – '' Letty Fox: Her Luck'' * Kylie Tennant – ''Lost Haven'' * Arthur Upfield – ''The Devil's Steps'' Short stories * Jon Cleary – ''These Small Glories'' * Alan Marshall ** "The Grey Kangaroo" ** ''Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories'' * Vance Palmer – '"The Foal" * Douglas Stewart – "The Three Jolly Foxes" * Dal Stivens – ''The Courtship of Uncle Henry : A Collection of Tales and Stories'' Children's and Young Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Aldridge
Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children. Life and career Aldridge was born in White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria. By the mid-1920s the Aldridge family had moved to Swan Hill, and many of his Australian stories are based on his life growing up there. He studied at the London School of Economics. He returned to Australia and worked for ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' in Melbourne from 1935 to 1938. In 1938 Aldridge moved to London, which remained his base until his death in 2015. During the Second World War, Aldridge served in the Middle-East as a war correspondent, reporting on the Axis invasions of Greece and Crete. Based on his experiences, he wrote his first novel ''Signed with Their Honour'' and the book was publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Marshall (Australian Author)
Alan Marshall , (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter. He received the Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933. His best known book, ''I Can Jump Puddles'' (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography. The other two volumes are ''This is the Grass'' (1962) and ''In Mine Own Heart'' (1963). Life and work Marshall was born in Noorat, Victoria. At six years old he contracted polio, which left him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. From an early age, he resolved to be a writer, and in ''I Can Jump Puddles'' he demonstrated an almost total recall of his childhood in Noorat. The characters and places of his book are thinly disguised from real life: ''Mount Turalla'' is Mount Noorat, ''Lake Turalla'' is Lake Keilambete, the ''Curruthers'' are the ''Blacks'', Mrs. Conlon is Mary Conlon of Dixie, Terang, and his best friend, ''Joe'' from the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Riddell
Elizabeth Riddell (21 March 1910 – 3 July 1998) was an Australian poet and journalist. Life Born in Napier, New Zealand, Elizabeth Richmond Riddell came to Australia in 1928 where she worked at '' Smith's Weekly'' and won a Walkley Award. She married Edward Neville 'Blue' Greatorex (1901–1964) in Sydney in 1935. The couple did not have children. In 1935 she moved to England and during World War II worked for Ezra Norton at '' The Daily Mirror'', chiefly in New York City. Her first short book of poems, ''The Untrammelled'', was published in 1940. After the war she returned to Australia to continue working as a journalist, and in the 1960s became art critic and feature writer for '' The Australian''. She was the first Walkley Award winner for The Australian, winning in 1968 and 1969 for 'Best Newspaper Feature Story'. In 1986 she was awarded Critic of the Year by the ''Australian Book Review''. Riddell's poetry won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1992 and the Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will H
Will may refer to: Common meanings * Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death * Will (philosophy), or willpower * Will (sociology) * Will, volition (psychology) * Will, a modal verb - see Shall and will People and fictional characters * Will (comics) (1927–2000), a comic strip artist * Will (given name), a list of people and fictional characters named Will or Wil * Will (surname) * Will (Brazilian footballer) (born 1973) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * '' Will: G. Gordon Liddy'', a 1982 TV film * ''Will'' (1981 film), an American drama * ''Will'' (2011 film), a British sports drama * '' Bandslam'', a 2008 film with the working title ''Will'' Literature * ''Will'' (novel), by Christopher Rush * ''Will'', an autobiography by G. Gordon Liddy Music * Will (band), a Canadian electronic music act * ''Will'' (Julianna Barwick album), a 2016 album by Julianna Barwick * ''Will'' (Leo O'Kelly album), a 2011 album by Leo O'Kell ... [...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] |
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] |
George Mackaness (bibliophile)
George Mackaness (9 May 1882 – 3 December 1968), born in Sydney, was a distinguished Australian educator, historian author, bibliographer and bibliophile. Life and career Born in 1882, George Mackaness was the son of George Mackaness, a printer and lithographer, and his wife Annie Ellen, née Barnett. He was one of eight children in the family. He trained as a teacher and spent many years as English master at Fort Street Boys' High School, Sydney. His book ''Inspirational Teaching'' was widely acclaimed. He was in charge of the English Department at Sydney Technical College from 1924 to 1946. He was on the board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund, and a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales. He was longtime member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and president in 1948–9. He wrote over 70 books and journal articles, including a life of William Bligh (1930) and Arthur Phillip (1937). Between 1935 and 1962, he edited and privately published in limited edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Macauley
James Lowry Macauley (born 24 November 1889 – 8 October 1945), also known as Jim, was a professional footballer, who played for Rangers, Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. He also played football for Ireland, scoring one goal. He played as an inside forward. Career His family moved to Belfast when he was young and he attended St. Enoch's Presbyterian School, before going to Belfast Royal Academy. McAuley played amateur football for Cliftonville, scoring in their Irish Cup final replay win over Bohemians in Dublin in 1909 and the Irish League victory in 1910, before signing for Rangers. NI Football Blog During the Great war he returned to Ireland and guested for Belfast Celtic
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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] |
Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 192027 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist.Anderson (1996) She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of ''Australian Poetry'' and has been translated into French and other languages.Adelaide (1988) p. 52 The Judges of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 1996 described her significance as follows: "The level of originality and strength of Rosemary's poetry cannot be underestimated, nor can the contribution she has made to Australian literature. Her literary achievements, especially her poetry, are a testament to her talent and dedication to her art." Life Rosemary Dobson was born in Sydney, the second daughter of English-born A.A.G. (Arthur) Dobson and Marjorie (née Caldwell). Her paternal grandfather was Austin Dobson, a poet and essayist.Hooton (2000b) p. 1, 5, 10, 11, 25, 3 Her father died when she was five years old. She atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Karrawingi The Emu
''The Story of Karrawingi the Emu'' (1946) is an illustrated children's book by Australian author Leslie Rees and illustrator Walter Cunningham. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1946. Story outline The book tells the story of the life of the noble Australian Emu packed with action, adventure and the sense of racing speed that is part of an emu's heritage. Critical reception A note in ''The Western Mail'' stated: "The prose and the illustrations unfold the life story of an emu, giving a spice of adventure, a little natural history and a great deal of realism in story-telling and ability in illustration." Awards * 1946 - winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers See also * 1946 in Australian literature References {{DEFAULTSORT:Story of Karrawingi the Emu, The 1946 children's books Australian children's books CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-winning works Children's books about birds Children's books set in Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Rees (author)
George Leslie Clarke Rees (28 December 1905 – 17 August 2000) was an Australian writer for children who was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. Career He attended Perth Modern School and then the University of Western Australia, where he edited the student magazine, ''Black Swan''. He then worked for The West Australian as a journalist before travelling to London to study at University College on a scholarship. It was while there that he married fellow Western Australian, Coralie Clarke, who had been a sub-editor during his time on the ''Black Swan''. Rees returned to Australia in 1936 to become the Australian Broadcasting Commission's first federal drama editor in Sydney. He was also President of PEN (Sydney) for a number of years. As a writer, Rees is best known as a prolific author of children's books as well as written travel books, plays and an autobiography. He wrote the first Australian-written drama to air on Australian television, '' The Sub-Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
