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2012 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012. Events *Clive James is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to literature and the media" in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours List. *Five literary figures are named in the Australia Day Honours: Paul Brunton, Stuart Macintyre, Roy Masters, Ros Pesman and Carol Woodrow. * Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries' 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford "to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active: literature, culture, science, and communication". *Incoming Premier Campbell Newman cancels the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. *In response, a week later, the new Queensland Literary Awards are announced. The awards use a crowd-funding campaign to raise the prize-money for their initial set of awards. *Sophie Cunni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive James
Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.Clive James — writer, TV broadcaster and critic — dies aged 80 ''ABC News'', 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for '''' in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour. During this period, he earned an indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Questions Of Travel
''Questions of Travel'' is a 2012 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. It won the 2013 Miles Franklin Award and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Description The novel concerns two main characters: Laura—an Australian woman who travels the world before returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides—and Ravi—an IT professional from Sri Lanka who flees his country after a major trauma. The novel "illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now." Owen Richardson, in his review of the novel in ''The Monthly'' described it as "...a big, ambitious novel of Sydney and the world, globalisation and divided identities. It is everywhere full of intelligence and a vivid sense of individual lives." The novel's title, ''Questions of Travel'', is a homage to a poem of the same name by Elizabeth Bishop. Awards * 2013 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize * 2013 win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Light Between Oceans
''The Light Between Oceans'' is a 2012 Australian historical fiction novel by M. L. Stedman, her debut novel, published by Random House Australia on 20 March 2012. A film adaptation of the same name starring Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender was released on 2 September 2016. Summary Thomas "Tom" Sherbourne returns home to Eastern Australia after fighting in the Western Front trenches of World War I with the First Australian Imperial Force. He left physically unscathed and with several decorations, but he suffers from nightmares and survivor guilt and seeks a quiet, remote job. Tom becomes the lighthouse keeper for Janus Rock, a small, isolated island southwest of Australia. He spends his last days on the mainland in Point Partageuse, during which he meets a young woman named Isabel Graysmark. He is struck by her innocence and cheeriness, in contrast to the general post-war gloom in the town. As Tom begins his shift on Janus Rock, he finds comfort in the regulated structur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rosie Project
''The Rosie Project'' is a 2013 Australian novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion. The novel centres on genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. With a friend's help, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. His plans are set off course when he meets Rosie, who does not fit many of Tillman's criteria, but becomes a big part of his life. The work was first published on 30 January 2013 in Australia by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in over 40 other countries. International sales are in excess of 3.5 million copies and the book was named Book of the Year for 2014 by the Australian Book Industry Association. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. A sequel, titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was released in 2014, followed in 2019 by the third and final book in the trilogy, '' The Rosie Result''. Synopsis Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Simsion
Graeme C. Simsion (born 1956) is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller. Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book ''Data Modelling Essentials,'' and worked in wine distribution. Literary career Don Tillman novels In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book ''The Rosie Project''. The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014. It has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote ''The Rosie Project'' as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was published on 24 September 2014. The third and final book, ''The Rosie Result'', was published in February 2019. Other novels Simsion's third novel, ''The Best of Adam Sharp'' was published by Text Publishing in 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Radok
Stephanie Radok (born 1954) is an artist and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, whose work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. She worked as a general editor for Artlink and as an art critic for Artlink, Adelaide Review, and Art Monthly Australia. Biography Radok was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954. Radok studied a degree in Visual Arts, with a major in Printmaking, at the Canberra School of Art from 1982 to 1985. In 2002 she completed a Master of Arts in Visual Art at the South Australian School of Art. Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks. Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine ''Unreal City'', which she founded with eX de Medici in 1986 in Canberra. She has written many catalogue essays including a notable one for Hossein Valamanesh titled Fingers of Memory. Art practice Radok has held 19 solo exhibitions. Her wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountain (novel)
''The Mountain'' (2012) is a novel by Australian author Drusilla Modjeska. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award. Plot summary The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a PNG university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia. Reviews Lloyd Jones in ''The Guardian'' noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire." Eleanor Limprecht in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things. Awards and nominations * 2013 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction * 2013 longlisted ALS Gold Medal * 2013 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award * 2013 shortlisted Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drusilla Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor. Life Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Papua New Guinea) before arriving in Australia in 1971. She studied for an undergraduate degree at the Australian National University before completing a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales which was published as ''Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945'' (1981). Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are ''Poppy'' (1990), a fictionalised biography of her mother, and ''Stravinsky's Lunch'' (2001), a feminist reappraisal of the lives and work of Australian painters Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith. She has also edited several volumes of stories, poems and essays, including the work of Lesbia Harford and a 'Focus on Papua New Guinea' iss ... [...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 |
The Daughters Of Mars
''The Daughters of Mars'' is a 2012 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally. Plot summary Sally and Naomi Durance are two nurses from country New South Wales who are shipped to Egypt during World War I end up on the Red Cross hospital ship ''Archimedes'', stationed in the Dardanelles. The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe. Notes * Dedication: To the two nurses, Judith and Jane Reviews In ''The Guardian'' Jay Parini notes that "Keneally revisits the first world war from the perspective of two sisters, nurses who see the blood and guts of this conflict from the periphery, on hospital ships and operating theatres...Of course there are love stories, rather inevitable and not especially interesting or memorable. And not quite knowing how to conclude the novel, Keneally offers a peculiar, bifurcated ending that doesn't work. But in truth this doesn't matter. This is a novel on an epic scale: its plenitude and anguish are life-enhancing, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film ''Schindler's List'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Early life Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent in Kempsey. His father, Edmund Thomas Keneally, flew for the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II, then returned to work in a small business in Sydney. By 1942, the family had moved to 7 Loftus Crescent, Homebush, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney and Keneally was enrolled at Christian Brothers St Patrick's College, Strathfield. Shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Jordan
Toni Jordan (born 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel ''Addition'', an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2017 her fourth book, ''Our Tiny Useless Hearts'', was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize The Voss Literary Prize is an annual award named in honour of historian Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss (1930–1963). It is awarded to the best novel published in the previous year and is managed and judged by the Australian University Heads of Engli .... Her novel ''Nine Days'' was named the Indie Book of the Year by the Australian Booksellers in 2013. Her most recent novel ''Prettier if she Smiled More'' was called 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'. She currently teaches at the Faber Academy. Bibliography Novels * ''Addition'' (2008) * ''Fall Girl'' (2011) * ''Nine Days'' (2013) * ''Our Tiny Useless Hearts'' (2016) * ''The Fragments'' (2018) * ''Dinner with the Schnabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |