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1989 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1989. Events * Peter Carey won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Oscar and Lucinda'' Major publications Novels * Jessica Anderson — '' Taking Shelter'' * Mena Calthorpe — ''The Plain of Ala'' * Bryce Courtenay — '' The Power of One'' * Tom Flood — ''Oceana Fine'' * Peter Goldsworthy — '' Maestro'' * Elizabeth Jolley — '' My Father's Moon'' * Tom Keneally — '' Towards Asmara'' * Amy Witting — ''I for Isobel'' Short story anthologies * Liam Davison — ''The Shipwreck Party'' * Brian Matthews — ''Quickening and Other Stories'' Crime and mystery * Kerry Greenwood — ''Cocaine Blues'', the first in the Phryne Fisher series. * Jennifer Rowe — ''Murder by the Book'' Science fiction and fantasy * Judith Clarke — ''The Boy on the Lake : Stories'' * Rosaleen Love — ''The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories'' Children's and young adult fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for '' Oscar and Lucinda'', and won for the second time in 2001 with ''True History of the Kelly Gang''. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film '' Until the End of the World'' with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Early life and career: 1943–1970 Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents ran a General Motors dealership, Carey Motors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Davison
Liam Patrick Davison (29 July 1957 – 17 July 2014) was an Australian novelist and reviewer. He was born in Melbourne, where, until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute in Frankston. Biography Davison was educated at St Bede's College, Melbourne and Melbourne Teacher's College. He was awarded the National Book Council's Banjo Award for Fiction in 1993 and shortlisted for several literary prizes such as ''The Age'' Book of the Year Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. His work has appeared in many Australian literary anthologies. He was an occasional reviewer for '' The Australian'' newspaper. Davison and his wife Frankie, a teacher at Toorak College, were both killed on 17 July 2014 aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine. Publications *''The Velodrome'' (1988) *''The Shipwreck Party'' (Short stories) (1989) *''Soundings'' (1993) *''The White Woman'' (1994) *''The Betrayal'' (1999) *''The Spirit of Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Featherstone Porter (26 March 1954 – 10 December 2008) was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Early life Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and History. Works and awards Porter's awards include The Age Book of the Year for poetry, the National Book Council Award for ''The Monkey's Mask'' and the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for poetry. Two of her verse novels were shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: ''What a Piece of Work'' in 2000 and '' Wild Surmise'' in 2003. In 2000, the film '' The Monkey's Mask'' was made from her verse novel of the same name. In 2005, her libretto '' The Eternity Man'', co-written with composer Jonathan Mills, was performed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Robert Adamson (poet)
Robert Adamson (17 May 1943 – 16 December 2022) was an Australian poet and publisher. Biography Born in Sydney, Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in gaol in his 20s. His first book, ''Canticles on the Skin'', was published in 1970. He acknowledges the influence of, among others, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Robert Duncan, and Hart Crane upon his writing. In the 1970s and 1980s, he edited ''New Poetry'' magazine and established Paper Bark Press in 1986 with his partner, photographer Juno Gemes, and writer Michael Wilding, which published Australian poetry. Wilding left the company in 1990, and Gemes and Adamson continued to run the company until 2002. In 2011 he won the Patrick White Award and the Blake Poetry Prize. Adamson was appointed the inaugural CAL chair of poetry at UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) in 2012. Adamson died on 16 December 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction.Morris Gleitzman He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel '' Two Weeks with the Queen'' (1990). Gleitzman has co-written many children's series with another Australian children's author, Paul Jennings. One of Gleitzman and Jennings' collaborati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eleventh Hour (children's Book)
''The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery'' is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. In it, Horace the Elephant holds a party for his eleventh birthday, to which he invites his ten best friends (various animals) to play eleven games and share in a feast that he has prepared. However, at the time they are to eat—11:00—they are startled to find that someone has already eaten all the food. They accuse each other until, finally, they're left puzzled as to who could have eaten it all. It is left up to the reader to solve the mystery, through careful analysis of the pictures on each page and the words in the story. The book was a joint-winner of the "Picture Book of the Year" award from The Children's Book Council of Australia. History Base was inspired to write the book by reading Agatha Christie novels. He travelled to Kenya and Tanzania in 1987 observing animals in game parks and collecting ideas for the book. Style Written in rhyme, the book includes large and lavish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Base
Graeme Rowland Base (born 6 April 1958) is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, '' Animalia'' published in 1986, and third book '' The Eleventh Hour'' which was released in 1989. Background He was born in Amersham, England, but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since. He attended Box Hill High School and Melbourne High School in Melbourne, and then studied a Diploma of Art (Graphic Design) for three years at Swinburne University of Technology at Prahran. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well.Biographical information on Graeme Base from Penguin (US) http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000002108,00.html His first book, ''My Grandma lived in Gooligulch'', was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. Base resides in Melbourne with his wife Robyn and has th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosaleen Love
Rosaleen Love (born 1940) is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been noted for her use of irony and feminism. She has been nominated for the Ditmar Award six times, and won the in 2009. Bibliography Collections *''The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories'' (1989) *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Clarke
Judith Clarke (24 August 1943 – 14 May 2020) was an Australian best-selling author of short stories for children and young adults. Life Clarke was born on 24 August 1943 and raised in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain .... She worked as a teacher, lecturer and librarian. She graduated from the University of New South Wales, and Australian National University. Clarke died on 14 May 2020 in Melbourne. Awards * Young People's Talking Book of the Year Award (1991) from the Variety Club * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book in Fiction and Poetry, for ''Kalpana's Dream'' * Children's Books of the Year Awards Winner-Children's Book Council of Australia, for ''Wolf on the Fold'' * Children's Books of the Year Awards Honor, Older Readers, for ''Night Train'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Rowe
Jennifer June Rowe, (born 4 April 1948), is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson. She is well known for the children's fantasy series '' Deltora Quest'', ''Rowan of Rin'', ''Fairy Realm'', ''Teen Power Inc.'', the ''Rondo'' trilogy and ''The Three Doors'' trilogy, and her latest ''His Name Was Walter''. Biography Jennifer Rowe was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 April 1948, and raised with two younger brothers in Sydney's North Shore. Her father was Jim Oswin, the founding general manager of ATN7 in Sydney, and was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as '' My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?'' and '' The Mavis Bramston Show''. She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the Upper North Shore of Sydney. She attained her Masters of Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phryne Fisher
The Honourable Phryne Fisher ( ), often called "Miss Fisher", is the main character in Australian author Kerry Greenwood's series of Phryne Fisher detective novels. The character later appeared in a television series called ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'', and the film ''Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears''. Phryne is a wealthy aristocrat and private detective who lives in St Kilda, Melbourne, the first 15 novels set in the year 1928. With the assistance of her companion Dot, and Bert and Cec (who are wharfies, taxi drivers and "red raggers" communists]), she solves all manner of crimes. As a crime fiction character, she has been called a "quintessentially Australian" construction. Phryne is no ordinary aristocrat, as she can fly a plane, drives her own car (a Hispano-Suiza) and sometimes wears trousers. While displaying bohemian panache, she manages also to maintain style and class. Phryne was accidentally named after Phryne, a famous Greek courtesan who lived in the 4th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
