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1996 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1996. Events * Christopher Koch won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Highways to a War'' * David Malouf won the International Dublin Literary Award for '' Remembering Babylon'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley, ''The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow'' * James Cowan (author), ''A Mapmaker's Dream'' * Robert Dessaix, ''Night Letters: A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy Edited and Annotated by Igor Miazmov'' * Robert Drewe, '' The Drowner'' * David Foster, '' The Glade Within the Grove'' * Sonya Hartnett, ''Black Foxes'' * David Malouf, ''The Conversations at Curlow Creek'' * John A. Scott, '' Before I Wake'' * Janette Turner Hospital, ''Oyster'' Children's and young adult fiction * Margaret Clark (Australian writer), '' Fat Chance'' * James Moloney, '' A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove'' * Kerry Greenwood, ''The Broken Wheel'' * John Marsden (writer), ''Chec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Koch
Christopher John Koch AO (16 July 1932 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel '' The Year of Living Dangerously'', which was adapted into an award-winning film. He twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for ''The Doubleman'' in 1985, and for '' Highways to a War'' in 1996). In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, the University of Tasmania, in 1990. Early life and education Koch was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1932. He was educated at Clemes College, St Virgil's College, Hobart High School and at the University of Tasmania.Koch, Christopher ''AustLit''. After graduating with a |
Before I Wake (Scott Novel)
''Before I Wake'' (1996) is a novel by Australian author John Scott. The novel consists of a sequence of five novellas and features poems by Melissa Curran, attributed in the story to the character Danielle. The main character is Jonathan Ford, a failed writer who travels through Thirroul, Paris, Littlehampton, and Tasmania, reflecting on his difficult childhood before reuniting with his sisters. He seduces and abandons a poet named Danielle, who commits suicide. He also forms a relationship with a woman named Donna and her sister Rachel; the three end the novel in tentative happiness at a vineyard in Tasmania, which Rachel inherits after another character, Tardieu, is the victim of parochial violence. The core theme of the novel is the impact of abuse, especially child abuse, and the experience of personal damage and failure. In addition to the characters' many experiences of abuse and violence, the novel discusses the murder of James Bulger, which occurred three years prior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as "Dux of the School" (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects). Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration. From 2003 until 2018, she taught creative writing at The University of Sydney and was poetry editor for ''Meanjin'' from 2005 to 2015, having previously edited ''Hobo'' and the Australian Arabic literature journal ''Kalimat''. Awards and nominations * Wesley Michel Wright Award * 1988 – Mary Gilmore Prize for ''The Domesticity of Giraffes'' * 1988 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Bellear
Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland. Her uncles were Bob Bellear, Australia's first Indigenous judge, and Sol Bellear who helped to found the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972. Bellear was adopted into a white family as a baby and was told she had Polynesian heritage. As an adult she explored her Aboriginal roots. Bellear died unexpectedly at her home in Melbourne. She was 45 years old. She was buried at Mullumbimby cemetery. Published works and photography Posthumous poetry collection ''Aboriginal Country'', Ed. Jen Jewel Brown, UWA Publishing, 2018 was chosen as one of the books of the year by poet John Kinsella in ''Australian Book Review''. Bellear wrote ''Dreaming in Urban Areas'' (UQP, 1996), a book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Beach
Eric Beach (born 1947), is a New Zealand and Australian poet, playwright, and short story writer. Born in New Zealand, Beach has lived in Tasmania and in Victoria since 1972. He is active in the Australian Performance Poetry scene, performing at workshops, readings and events around Australia. His publication ''Weeping for Lost Babylon'' won the 1996 Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, and was joint winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checkers (novel)
''Checkers'' is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden. It was published in 1996 and 1998 by Houghton Mifflin and in 2000 by Laurel Leaf. It is Marsden's twelfth book. Resolution Summary The main plot of ''Checkers'' is told in flash back, first-person narration which takes the form of a diary. The author of this diary is a nameless teenage girl, who is a voluntary patient in a psychiatric ward Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative .... She refuses to talk about why she's there and does not say a word during her Group therapy sessions. Before she admits herself into hospital, she lived with a grimly dysfunctional and uncommunicative family of four, whose father was a co-owner of a company named Rider Group which receives a multimillion-dollar business con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marsden (writer)
John Marsden (born 27 September 1950) is an Australian writer and unlicensed alternative school principal. Marsden's books have been translated into eleven languages. While working as a teacher, Marsden began writing for children, and had his first book, ''So Much to Tell You'', published in 1987. Since then, he has written or edited over 40 books and has sold over 5 million books throughout the world. In 2006, Marsden started an alternative school, Candlebark School in the Macedon Ranges. Marsden has since reduced his writing to focus on teaching and running the school. In 2016, he opened the arts-focused secondary school, Alice Miller School, also in the Macedon Ranges. He is also the patron of youth media organisation Express Media. He has no academic education in pedagogy and is not state licenced. Early life Marsden was born in Victoria and spent the first 10 years of his life living in the country towns of Kyneton, Victoria, and Devonport, Tasmania. He is a great-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Wheel
''The Broken Wheel'' is a 1996 young adult science fiction novel by Kerry Greenwood. Background ''The Broken Wheel'' was first published in Australia in 1996 by Moonstone in paperback format. It won in a tie situation with Hillary Bell's '' Mirror, Mirror'' the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been fir .... Plot summary After an apocalyptic event, the survivors have formed into groups. These include the Travellers, who trade in small goods; the medievalists in the enclave Thorngard; the Tribe, a loose gathering of nomads; and in the city the Breakers, who destroy every machine they find, blaming the machines for the disaster. Sarah, a child of the Breakers, joins with the Travellers in an attempt to save the world from destru ... [...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] |
A Bridge To Wiseman's Cove
''A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove'' (1996) is a novel by Australian author James Moloney. The novel features the life of a 15-year-old boy, Carl Matt, and his dysfunctional family A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse and sometimes even all of the above on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such ..., who begin to suffer from physical and emotional problems after his mother's disappearance. Plot summary When Carl Matt's mother, Kerry Matt, disappears, his sister Sarah sends him and his brother Harley to Wattle Beach to live with their Aunt Beryl. Aunt Beryl doesn't want them to stay with her and after numerous encounters with the police she says Carl has to get a job to pay his Aunt. He later is rejected. He learns this is because his grandfather had an accident that crippled Skip for life, and accidentally killed his son. After some consideration, Skip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Moloney
James "Jim" Moloney (born 20 September 1954) is an Australian children's author. A prolific writer whose books span an age range from seven- to seventeen-year-olds, he is best known for his young adult novels. He has been nominated and won awards for his books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. His books have been translated into French, Korean, Lithuanian and Flemish/Dutch. Moloney was born in Sydney but grew up in Brisbane where he still lives today with his wife, Kate a retired teacher-librarian. He trained as a teacher (Griffith University) and holds diplomas in Teacher–Librarianship and Computer Education. His role as a Teacher Librarian sparked his interest in children's literature and eventually led to his early attempts at writing. His first book, ''Crossfire'', was published in 1992 and he continues to publish. In 1998 he resigned from teaching at Marist College Ashgrove and now writes full-time in a cabin in his backyard affectionately known by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat Chance (Margaret Clark Novel)
''Fat Chance'' is a novel that was published in Australia in 1996. It is one of several similar books written by Australian author Margaret Clark. Plot summary The story is set in suburban Melbourne, Australia. The protagonist, Lisa Trelaw, is a teenage girl who is overly concerned about her weight. Other characters include her brother, Nick, who frequently teases her; Lisa's hard working father and over-weight mother; and her best friend Penny. The narrative follows Lisa through a series of life changing events. First, the 'Dog Squad' food van her parents bought and she worked in. Also, the cliff accident where a large rock fell, crushing two of Lisa's friends and narrowly missing her. The story has an ambiguous climax when Lisa is offered a modelling contract. By this stage Lisa's attitude had gone full circle. She had started out obsessed with her weight, always binge eating and then starving herself. In the end she is confident, eating healthy, with no eating disorder. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |