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1982 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1982. Events * Thomas Keneally won the 1982 Booker–McConnell Prize for ''Schindler's Ark'', the first Australian to win the award. * Rodney Hall (writer) won the 1982 Miles Franklin Award for ''Just Relations'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley — '' An Item from the Late News'' * Rodney Hall — ''Just Relations'' * Thomas Keneally — ''Schindler's Ark'' * David Malouf — ''Fly Away Peter'' * Gerald Murnane — ''The Plains'' * Tim Winton — ''An Open Swimmer'' Crime and mystery * Peter Corris — ''The Marvellous Boy'' Science fiction and fantasy * Glenda Adams — ''Games of the Strong'' * Damien Broderick — ''The Judas Mandala'' Short stories * Beverley Farmer — "Snake" Children's and young adult fiction * Joan Lindsay — ''Syd Sixpence'' * Jan Ormerod — ''Moonlight'' * Nadia Wheatley — ''Five Times Dizzy'' Poetry * Les Murray ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film ''Schindler's List'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Early life Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish Australians, Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent in Kempsey. His father, Edmund Thomas Keneally, flew for the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II, then returned to work in a small business in Sydney. By 1942, the family had moved to 7 Loftus Crescent, Homebush, New South Wales, Homebush, a suburb in the Inner West, inner west of Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Lindsay
Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled ''Through Darkest Pondelayo''. Her second novel, ''Time Without Clocks'', was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early years of her marriage to artist Sir Daryl Lindsay. In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'', a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing of three schoolgirls and their teacher at the site of a monolith during one summer. The novel sparked critical and public interest for its ambivalent presentation as a true story as well as its vague conclusion, and is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels. It was adapted into a 1975 film of the same name. She was also the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Campion (historian)
Edmund Campion (born 1933 in Sydney) is an Australian Catholic priest and historian. He was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and the University of Sydney, where he was editor of the student newspaper Honi Soit in 1953. He completed a Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge and theological studies at the Catholic Institute of Sydney. He was ordained a priest in 1961 and after curacies at several Sydney parishes including St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, St Mary's Cathedral was appointed a lecturer in history at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, later becoming Professor of History there. He spoke against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War and in the 1970s was active in residents' action groups in Woolloomooloo. His books on Catholic Church in Australia, Australian Catholic History combine a personal point of view with discussions of the wider social context and the impact of Australian Catholics in many fields. Campion was chairman of the judging panel for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche D'Alpuget
Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget (born 3 January 1944) is an Australian writer and the second wife of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia. Background and early career D'Alpuget is the only child of Josephine Curgenven and Louis Albert Poincaré d'Alpuget (1915–2006), journalist, author, blue water yachtsman and champion boxer. Her great-aunt, Blanche d'Alpuget, after whom she was named, was a pioneer woman journalist in Sydney and a patron of artists. Her father was a sports and feature writer and also news editor of a Sydney newspaper, '' The Sun''. D'Alpuget attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst and briefly the University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one o .... She worked at ''The Sun's'' rival newspaper, ''The Daily Mirror (Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfectionist
''The Perfectionist'' is a 1981 play by David Williamson David Keith Williamson AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up .... It was adapted into a film for television directed by Chris Thomson in 1985. Plot The plot revolves around an academic who is working on a PhD. His wife hires a Danish student to babysit their children. Film version In 1983 Patricia Lovell announced plans to produce a film version of the play directed by Williamson but they were unable to finance it. A telemovie was made in 1985.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p191 The telemovie was subsequently sold in multiple international territories, but also for television and direct-to-video. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williamson
David Keith Williamson AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965. His early forays into the theatre were as an actor and writer of skits for the Engineers' Revue at Melbourne University's Union Theatre at lunchtime during the early 1960s, and as a satirical sketch writer for Monash University student reviews and the Emerald Hill Theatre Company. After a brief stint as design engineer for GM Holden, Williamson became a lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics at Swinburne University of Technology (then Swinburne Technical College) in 1966 while studying social psychology as a postgraduate part-time at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Nowra
Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights. His works have been performed by all of Australia's major theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Belvoir, and many others, and have also had many international productions. His most significant plays are ''Così'', '' Radiance'' (both of which he turned into films), ''Byzantine Flowers'', '' Summer of the Aliens'' and ''The Golden Age''. In 2006 he completed ''The Boyce Trilogy'' for Griffin Theatre Company, consisting of '' The Woman with Dog's Eyes'', '' The Marvellous Boy'' and '' The Emperor of Sydney''. His 2009 novel ''Ice'' was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. His script for 1996 movie ''Cosi'', which revolves around a group of mentally ill patients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dreamers (play)
''The Dreamers'' is a play written by Jack Davis, set in Western Australia. He wrote the play to influence public opinion and bring about improvement in Aboriginal Australians' lives. Characters The play features the following characters: * Worru - an old Aboriginal man * Dolly - Worru's niece * Meena - Dolly's daughter(age 14) * Shane - Dolly's son(age 12) * Roy - Dolly's husband * Eli - a cousin * Peter - Dolly's son (age 18) * Darren - a white boy, (age 12 approx.) Plot The play is about how Aboriginal family, the Wallitches, go through everyday life. The story takes place over a period of six months in the home of the family. The play maintains an elegiac tone throughout for a tribal past, for a people one physically and spiritually in harmony with their world. Performances It was first performed on 2 February 1982 by the Swan River Stage Company at the Dolphin Theatre in Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Davis (playwright)
Jack Leonard Davis (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Aboriginal Australian activist. Academic Adam Shoemaker, who has covered much of Jack Davis‘ work and Aboriginal literature, has claimed he was one of “Australia’s most influential Aboriginal authors”. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he spent most of his life and later died. He identified with the Western Australian Noongar people, and he included some of this language into his plays. His work incorporates themes of Aboriginality and identity. While known for his literary work, Davis did not focus on writing until his fifties. His writing centred around the Aboriginal experience in relation to the settlement of white Australians. His collection of poems ''The First Born'' was his first work to be published and also made him the second Aboriginal to have published poetry by 1970, after Kath Walker, also known by her Aboriginal name Oodge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter (born 29 April 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program ''Books and Writing''; and founding in 1997 the internet quarterly literary magazine ''Jacket'' which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania. The Australia Council awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990; some Australian poets "acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist".Wilde et al. (1994) Life Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales and attended country schools, then took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making more than twenty reading tours to venues in the U.S., Britain and Europe since the mid-1980s. He has lived in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia, and overseas in London, Cambridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings. Translations of Murray's poetry have been published in 11 languages: French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, and Dutch. Murray's poetry won many awards and he is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation". He was rated in 1997 by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.National Living Treasures – Current List, Deceased, Formerly Listed National Trust of Australia (NSW), 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Times Dizzy
''Five Times Dizzy'' is a children's novel by Australian author Nadia Wheatley It was first published in 1982. In 1986 it became an Australian children's television series. Plot summary ''Five Times Dizzy'' is about the comedy and drama of a Greek Australian family in a multi-cultural neighbourhood of inner-city Sydney. To help her Greek grandmother feel more at home, Mareka comes up with a brilliant plan to give her a pet goat. Television adaptation The mini-series ''Five Times Dizzy'' first screened on the Nine Network in 1986. The series was filmed on location in the inner-city suburb of Newtown and is notable for an acting role by Mary Kostakidis, who went on to become a longtime newsreader on SBS. It was also where John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver first met, the pair going on to establish their longstanding Roy & HG partnership. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
