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1992 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1992. Events * Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Cloudstreet'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley – '' Vanishing Points'' * Lily Brett – ''What God Wants'' * Brian Castro – '' After China'' * Helen Garner – ''Cosmo Cosmolino'' * Peter Goldsworthy – ''Honk If You Are Jesus'' * Marion Halligan – '' Lovers' Knots'' * Andrew McGahan – ''Praise'' * Alex Miller (writer) – '' The Ancestor Game'' Children's and young adult fiction * Pamela Allen – ''Belinda'' * Brian Caswell – '' A Cage of Butterflies'' * Garry Disher – ''The Bamboo Flute'' * Anna Fienberg – ''Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life'' * Joanne Horniman – '' Sand Monkeys'' * Victor Kelleher – ''Del-Del'' * Melina Marchetta – '' Looking for Alibrandi'' Poetry * Beatriz Copello – ''Women, Souls And Shadows'' * Robert Harris – ''Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. Life and career Timothy John Winton was born on 4 August 1960 in Subiaco, an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. He grew up in the northern Perth suburb of Karrinyup, before he moved with his family to the regional city of Albany at the age of 12.Steger, Jason (2008) "It's a risky business", '' The Sydney Morning Herald'', 25–27 April 2008, Books: p. 29 Whilst at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, ''An Open Swimmer'', which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, launching his writing career. He has stated that he wrote "the best part of three books while at university".Steger, Jason (2008) "Its a risky business" in '' The Sydney Morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Allen
Pamela Kay Allen (née Griffiths; born 3 April 1934) is a New Zealand children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 50 picture books since 1980. Sales of her books have exceeded five million copies. Early life and family Born in the Auckland suburb of Devonport in 1934 to Esma Eileen (née Griffith) and William Ewart Griffiths, Allen studied at St Cuthbert's College, then the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, from where she graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1955. She then worked as a secondary school art teacher. She married sculptor Jim Allen in 1964. They moved to Sydney in about 1977, and after about 30 years returned to live in Auckland, New Zealand. Writing career Allen published her first book, ''Mr Archimedes' Bath'', in 1980. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 30 picture books for children. She has won or been shortlisted for many awards as both a writer and illustrator. She won the Children's Book Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Copello
Beatriz Copello is an Australian writer, poet, playwright and psychologist. Her fiction and poetry has been published in Australia and overseas, in literary journals such as '' Southerly'' and ''Australian Women's Book Review'', and in several anthologies and feminist publications. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. She is the recipient of several prizes, including a first prize at the 2000 Sydney Writers' Festival. Her book of lesbian poetry ''Women Souls and Shadows'' is her best-known work. Career Copello was born in Argentina, but emigrated to Australia in the 1970s. She obtained a degree in Communications from the University of Technology Sydney in 1989 and an MA in English ( Creative Writing) from Sydney University in 1996. In 2003 Copello received a Doctorate of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) from the University of Wollongong. She received an Emerging Writers Grant for Poetry from the Australia Council Literature Fund in Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking For Alibrandi (novel)
''Looking for Alibrandi'' is the debut novel of Australian author Melina Marchetta, published in 1992. A film adaptation of the same name was made in 2000. Plot The novel follows its protagonist, Josephine Alibrandi, the Italian-Australian daughter of Italian immigrant parents. Josie lives in Sydney and attends a Catholic high school–where she is disillusioned with the cliques and social politics of her snobby peers. Her usually sophisticated, sassy demeanour is challenged when she is overcome with the pressures of her senior year of high school: the suicide of a male friend, and meeting her estranged father who is in Sydney on a business trip. She confides in a young man with a bad reputation, who slowly turns into a romantic interest for Josie. This relationship, mirrored by the tumultuous relationship with her father, forms the centre complications of the novel as Josie tries to navigate through the complexities and hurdles she faces as a young adult. Awards * Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melina Marchetta
Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, '' Looking for Alibrandi'', ''Saving Francesca'' and ''On the Jellicoe Road''. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For ''Jellicoe Road'' she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best book for young adults. Education and early work Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney on 25 March 1965. She is of Italian descent, a middle child with two sisters. Marchetta attended high school at Rosebank College in the Sydney suburb of Five Dock. She left school at age fifteen as she was not confident in her academic ability. She enrolled in a business school which helped her gain employment with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and later at a travel agency. This gave her confidence to return to study and gain a teaching degree from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del-Del
''Del-Del'' is a psychological young adult novel written by Australian author Victor Kelleher and published in 1992. It deals with themes of loss and apparent demonic possession. Plot ''Del-Del'' is narrated by Beth, a teenage girl whose younger brother, a child prodigy named Sam, begins exhibiting strange behavior on the anniversary of the death of their sister Laura. He begins to refer to himself as Del-Del, and acts out in increasingly destructive and harmful ways. Eventually the family begins to believe that he has become the victim of demonic possession, and seeks a variety of solutions. Eventually they successfully banish the Del-Del personality with the assistance of an exorcist, only to have it return once more, this time in the form of an alien consciousness inhabiting Sam's body. This being, also calling itself Del-Del, claims to be a traveler from the constellation Delphinus. Eventually it is determined that the various personalities of Del-Del are in fact products of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Kelleher
Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian author. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a Ph.D. in English Literature from The University of South Africa. He has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Alison, and was associate professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. After receiving a grant from the Australia Council Literature Board, Kelleher spent six months of 1996 at the Kessing Writers' Studio in Paris. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travels in Africa. Kelleher has won many awards for his books, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Monkeys
''Sand Monkeys'' is a young adult novel by the Australian writer Joanne Horniman, who is known for novels centering on realistic depictions of people in unusual relationships. It was published in 1992 by Omnibus Books. The author's work on the novel was assisted by a writer's grant from the Australia Council The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Austr .... It received a Notable Book designation by the Children's Book Council of Australia. ''Sand Monkeys'' follows a period in the life a sixteen-year-old boy named Max, upon moving into a new household in Petersham, an inner suburb of Sydney Australia. The narrative is framed by a series of letters which Max writes to his friend Socrates, in which Max describes his feelings about the events in the story. Background Like Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Horniman
Joanne Horniman (born 1951) is an Australian author who has won several awards for her books for children, teenagers and young adults. Her novels often set in country New South Wales, and often deal with such themes as the search for identity, family relationships, growing up in rural communities, and teenage parenthood. Biography Joanne Horniman grew up in Murwillumbah in country New South Wales, Australia. She started writing at the age of about six, and has written stories on a regular basis since then. Growing up, she had an avid interest in politics, regularly reading the works of Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 .... She studied at university in Sydney, and has worked as an editor, a colleges and university teacher, and as an author. She now liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Fienberg
Anna Fienberg is an Australian writer of young adult fiction and children's literature. Biography Fienberg was born in 1956 in England before moving to Australia at the age of three. She has worked as an editor for School Magazine. In 1988 her first work was published, entitled ''Billy Bear and the Wild Winter''. In 1989 Fienberg released her first novel, ''The Nine Lives of Balthazar''. She has won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers in 1992 for ''The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels'' and has been a short-list nominee on four other occasions. Fienberg has also won the Alan Marshall Award for Children's Literature in 1993 for ''Ariel, Zed & the Secret of Life'' and the 2003 Aurealis Award for best children's short fiction for ''Tashi and the Haunted House''. She has also been an Aurealis Award finalist on four other occasions. Fienberg was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bamboo Flute
''The Bamboo Flute'' is a 1992 children's novel by Garry Disher. Set during the Great Depression, depression, it is about a boy who is taught by a swagman to make and play a bamboo flute. Reception In a review of ''The Bamboo Flute'', ''Booklist'' wrote "The author's thesis—aesthetic beauty is a basic need, especially during times of extreme hardship—will not escape the notice of young audiences, and the frequent touches of local color make this a fine choice for reading aloud and for classes studying Australia." ''Kirkus Reviews'' described it as "a beautifully written novella" that is "Brief and easily read, a powerfully realized moment in Australia's past." ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote "From its exquisite opening line ("There was once music in our lives, but I can feel it slipping away") to the moving finale, this elegantly delineated tale never strikes a false note." and "Disher's spare, evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age story is reminiscent in style to the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Disher
Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. Awards *The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour" *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for ''The Bamboo Flute'' *IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for ''The Bamboo Flute'' *NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for '' The Sunken Road'' *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for ''The Divine Wind'' *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for ''The Divine Wind'' *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for ''The Divine Wind'' * Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |