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1995 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1995. Events * Helen Demidenko won the Miles Franklin Award for ''The Hand That Signed the Paper'' Major publications Novels * Carmel Bird – ''The White Garden'' * Marshall Browne – ''The Gilded Cage'' * Bryce Courtenay — ''The Potato Factory'' * Beverley Farmer — ''The House in the Light'' * Judith Fox (author), Judith Fox – ''Bracelet Honeymyrtle'' * Paul Horsfall – ''The Touchstone'' * Rod Jones (author), Rod Jones — ''Billy Sunday (novel), Billy Sunday'' * Thomas Keneally — ''A River Town'' * Christopher Koch — ''Highways to a War'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''Camille's Bread'' * Alex Miller (writer), Alex Miller — ''The Sitters'' * Mandy Sayer — ''The Cross'' * Kathleen Stewart — ''Spilt Milk'' Crime and mystery * Jon Cleary – ''Winter Chill'' * John Dale (writer), John Dale — ''Dark Angel (Dale novel), Dark Angel'' * Garry Disher – ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Demidenko
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, Washington, an unincorporated community in Washington state, US * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Sayer
Mandy Sayer (born 1963) is an Australian novelist and narrative non-fiction writer. She was born in 1963 in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, New South Wales, Marrickville, the third of three children. She began writing poetry and stories at the age of six. Her parents separated when she was aged ten.Yvonne Preston, "Tap-dancing to life's hard rhythm", ''Canberra Times'', 7 February 1998, Panorama, p. 9 In 1983, she travelled to the United States with her father Gerry, a jazz drummer. To earn a living, they busked on the streets of New York City, New Orleans and Colorado for three years; Gerry played drums and Mandy tap danced. Her first memoir, ''Dreamtime Alice'' (1998), was based on these experiences. It was published to acclaim in Australia, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Brazil, and won the 2000 National Biography Award and Australian Audio Book of the Year. In 1985 in New Orleans during Mardi Gras she met Yusef Komunyakaa, an African-American war poet (later to win a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays and poetry and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. Life and career Earlier life Jack Dann was born to a Jewish family in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York. His father was an attorney and a Judge. Dann describes himself as having been "a troublesome child in a very small town" and in his teens associated with a loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Balthus
''The House of Balthus'' is a 1995 fantasy, horror novel by David Brooks. It is a story about characters from a painting by Balthus who have walked out to inhabit an ancient chateau. Background ''The House of Balthus'' was first published in Australia on 1 October 1995 by Allen & Unwin in trade paperback format. In 1996 it was released in Australia in mass market paperback format and in 1997 it was released as an audiobook on tape by Louis Braille Books. It has also been released in German and Polish. ''The House of Balthus'' was shortlisted for the 1995 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel and best horror novel but lost to Garth Nix's '' Sabriel'' and Terry Dowling's ''An Intimate Knowledge of the Night'' respectively. It was also a shortlist nominee for the 1996 National Book Council Banjo Award The National Book Council Banjo Awards were presented by the National Book Council of Australia from 1974 to 1997 for works of fiction and non-fiction. The name commemorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brooks (author)
David Gordon Brooks (born 12 January 1953 in Canberra) is an Australian poet, novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of four published novels, four collections of short stories and five collections of poetry, and his work has won or been shortlisted for major prizes. Brooks is a highly intellectual writer, and his fiction has drawn frequent comparison with the writers Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges. He studied poetics at the Australian National University (ANU) and in Toronto, Canada, from 1971 to 1986. He has been a hand-press printer of high-quality works, and was an editor of the Australian poetry journals ''New Poetry'', ''Helix'' and ''Southerly''. He taught literature at several Australian universities, followed by the Creative Writing program at Sydney University from 1999 to 2013. He is a long-term vegan,condensed version/ref> and writes extensively for and about animals and animal suffering. Early life Brooks was born in 1953 to H. Gord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Malcontenta
''The Malcontenta'' is a 1995 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Barry Maitland. Awards *Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ... for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner Dedication "Dedication: For Clare and Alex/With my very special thanks to Margaret, and to those people who have helped bring Brock and Cathy icto print, in particular Kate Jones and Jill Hickson." Notes * This is the second novel in the author's Brock and Kolla series. * The novel has been translated into German (''Ein Hauch von Angst'', 1995), French (''La malcontenta'', 2000) and Italian (''Malcontenta'', 2002). * The title of this novel as published in the U.S. is ''The Malcontenta: A Kathy and Brock Mystery'' Reviews * "Australian Crime Fiction data ... [...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] |
Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.Pressley, Alison (2007) "Lord and lady" in ''Good Reading Magazine'', April 2007, pp. 22–23 She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers. Life Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney. She was educated at Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart and the University of New England in Armidale, where she obtained an Honours degree in Victorian Literature. She worked as a teacher and as a public servant with the Commonwealth Employment Service. In 1978, with the support of a New Writer's Fellowship, she took a year off work to write full-time. The novel she wrote during the bulk of that time, ''A Death in the Family'', received a bad reader's report, so Lord put it aside and in the remaining three weeks of her year off wrote ''Fortress''. It was an instan ... [...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] |
Dark Angel (Dale Novel)
''Dark Angel'' is a 1995 Ned Kelly Award–winning novel by the Australian author John Dale. Awards *Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ... for Crime Writing, Best First Novel Award, 1996: winner Reviews Australian Crime Fiction database References * Gaughan, Thomas. "Adult books: Fiction". Booklist 92.21 (July 1996): 1807. * King, Noel. "Infamous lives". Meanjin 58.4 (Dec. 1999): 38. 1995 Australian novels Australian crime novels Ned Kelly Award-winning works 1995 debut novels Serpent's Tail books {{1990s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dale (writer)
John Dale (born 15 January 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author of crime fiction and true crime books. He completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Technology Sydney, in 1999, and subsequently joined the UTS writing Program where he was Professor of Writing and Director of the UTS Centre for New Writing until 2020. He is the author of ten books including the best-selling ''Huckstepp'' and two crime novels ''Dark Angel'' and ''The Dogs Are Barking'', published with Serpents Tail Press in the UK, and a memoir, ''Wild Life'', an investigation into the fatal shooting of his grandfather in 1940s Tasmania. He has edited two anthologies, ''Out West'' and ''Car Lovers'', and co-edited a third anthology, ''Best on Ground'', on Australian Rules football. His novel, ''Leaving Suzie Pye'', was published in 2010 and translated into Turkish. His novella ''Plenty'' was published in 2013. He has been a judge of several major Australian literary awards and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |