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1994 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1994. Events * Rodney Hall (writer) won the Miles Franklin Award for '' The Grisly Wife'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley — ''Coda'' * Lily Brett — ''Just Like That'' * Peter Carey — ''The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith'' * Richard Flanagan — '' Death of a River Guide'' * Drusilla Modjeska — ''The Orchard'' * John A. Scott — ''What I Have Written'' * Tim Winton — ''The Riders'' Short stories * Marian Eldridge — ''The Wild Sweet Flowers'' * Lucy Sussex – ''The Lottery : Nine Science Fiction Stories'' (edited) Science fiction and fantasy * Greg Egan — '' Permutation City'' * Sean McMullen – ''Voices in the Light'' * George Turner – ''Genetic Soldier'' Crime and mystery * Jon Cleary – ''Autumn Maze'' * Peter Corris ** ''Casino'' ** ''Get Even'' ** ''The Time Trap'' * Marele Day – ''The Disappearances of Madalena Grimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Hall (writer)
Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland (1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of ''The Australian''. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published thirteen novels, including ''Just Relations'' and ''The Island in the Mind''. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the Australia Council. Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the Miles Franklin Award, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990. Hall's memoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permutation City
''Permutation City'' is a 1994 science-fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, through various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulated reality. Sections of the story were adapted from Egan's 1992 short story "Dust", which dealt with many of the same philosophical themes. ''Permutation City'' won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1995 and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award the same year. The novel was also cited in a 2003 '' Scientific American'' article on multiverses by Max Tegmark. Themes and setting ''Permutation City'' asks whether there is a difference between a computer simulation of a person and a "real" person. It focuses on a model of consciousness and reality, the ''Dust Theory'', similar to the Ultimate Ensemble Mathematical Universe hypothesis proposed by Max Tegmark. It uses the assumption that human consciousness is Turing-computable: that consciousn ... [...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] |
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] |
Shane Maloney
Shane Maloney (born 1953) born in Hamilton, Victoria is a Melbourne author best known as the creator of the Murray Whelan series of crime novels. Life and career Maloney was educated at Christian Brothers' College, St Kilda (CBC St Kilda). He started writing after studying politics and Asian history at the Australian National University. He has worked in a wide range of situations, having held the positions of: Director of the Melbourne Comedy Festival (1987–1989), Cultural Director of Melbourne's Olympic bid and swimming pool lifeguard. Maloney lives in Melbourne. Murray Whelan series The six titles in the Murray Whelan crime thriller series (''Stiff'', ''The Brush-Off'', ''Nice Try'', ''The Big Ask'', ''Something Fishy'' and most recently ''Sucked In'') all feature the eponymous Murray Whelan, initially as a Labor Party staffer who provides support to a Victorian State Government minister but later as a member of the Victorian State parliament. The novels are ordered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Maitland
Barry Maitland (born 1941 in Scotland) is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge beca ..., Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle. He retired in 2000 and took up writing full-time. Novels Brock and Kolla Maitland has written a series of crime novels known as the Brock and Kolla novels, focussing on Scotland Yard detectives, DCI David Brock and DS Katherine Kolla : #''The Marx Sisters'' (1994) #'' The Malcontenta'' (1995) #''All My Enemies'' (1996) #''The Chalon Heads'' (1999) #''Silvermeadow'' (2000) #''Babel'' (2002) #''The Verge Practice'' (2003) #''No Trace'' (2004) #''Spider Trap'' (2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born 17 October 1942) is an Australian novelist, poet, short story writer, and former judge. Early life Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government under Robert Menzies, and was later appointed Governor-General of Australia. Nicholas went to school at Scotch College, Perth, and Canberra Grammar School, before studying law at University of Western Australia (1963) and Oxford (1966). After completing his studies he worked briefly in Fleet Street in London as an editorial assistant before returning to Australia in 1967 to work as a solicitor, initially in partnership with Robert Holmes à Court. He was a partner in the law firm Keall Brinsden from 1971 to 1984. While working as a barrister from 1985 to 2000 he was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988 and served as part-time President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (WA). He was deputy chair of the Australia Council from 1978 to 1982 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 1954) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series '' Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel ''The Three-Pronged Dagger''. Early life and education Greenwood grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, where she still lives today. She attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School), Maribyrnong College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979. Whilst at university, Greenwood worked at a women's refuge. Career In 1982, Greenwood was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme C ... [...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] |
Marele Day
Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novelpage 62-64, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work ''How to Write Crime''. Biography Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s. Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was ''Lambs of God'' which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers; it became a bestseller. Lambs of God was adapted into a tv series of the same name in 2019, starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Corris
Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing", particularly for his Cliff Hardy novels. Biography Corris' secondary school education was at Melbourne High School. He was a Bachelor level student at the University of Melbourne, then gained a Master of Arts in history at Monash University. He studied at the Australian National University where he was awarded a PhD in history on the topic of the South Seas Islander slave trade (Kanakas). He continued these studies as a university lecturer, but later became a journalist, and then a full-time writer. He was married to writer Jean Bedford. Peter Corris wrote a book that provided deep insights into his life living with type-1 diabetes. Some of his novels have diabetic subplots. In January 2017, Corris announced that he would no l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Maze
''Autumn Maze'' is a 1994 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the eleventh book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone Scobie Malone is a fictional Sydney homicide detective created by Australian novelist Jon Cleary. History Named after the jockey Scobie Breasley, Malone made his first appearance in Cleary's 1966 novel '' The High Commissioner''. Cleary says he ... and centers on the murder of the police minister's son.Julian Croft, When Old School Meets New Age', ''The Weekend Australian'' 28–29 January 1995 (rev 6) References External links''Autumn Maze''at National Library of Australia {{Jon Cleary 1994 Australian novels Novels set in Sydney HarperCollins books William Morrow and Company books Novels by Jon Cleary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |