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2017 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications Literary fiction * Peter Carey – ''A Long Way from Home'' * Felicity Castagna – ''No More Boats'' * J. M. Coetzee – ''The Schooldays of Jesus'' * Michelle de Kretser — ''The Life to Come'' * Robert Drewe — ''Whipbird'' * Richard Flanagan – ''First Person'' * Sofie Laguna — ''The Choke'' *Catherine McKinnon – ''Storyland: The land is a book, waiting to be read'' * Alex Miller — ''The Passage of Love'' * Bram Presser — ''The Book of Dirt'' * Kim Scott — ''Taboo'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Judith Clarke – ''My Lovely Frankie'' *Zana Fraillon – ''The Ones That Disappeared'' * Morris Gleitzman – ''Maybe'' (sequel to ''Once'', ''Then'', ''Now'', ''After'', ''Soon'') * Andy Griffiths – ''The Tree House Fun Book 2'' and ''The 91-Storey Treehouse'' * Jessica Townsend – '' Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow'' Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for '' Oscar and Lucinda'', and won for the second time in 2001 with ''True History of the Kelly Gang''. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film '' Until the End of the World'' with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Early life and career: 1943–1970 Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents ran a General Motors dealership, Carey Motors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trials Of Morrigan Crow
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Mark Colvin's Kidney
''Mark Colvin's Kidney'' is a stage play by playwright Tommy Murphy. Plot The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' journalist Andrew Taylor described the play in a recent article: "Mary-Ellen Field's kidney is one of the better known body parts in Australia. Its new owner, veteran ABC journalist Mark Colvin, is one of this country's more notable organ recipients. Field is also notorious as the business advisor sacked by Elle Macpherson for allegedly leaking information about the supermodel that was later found to have been obtained through phone hacking. Their relationship offered a dramatic arc that attracted playwright Tommy Murphy. "This is a story about a radio journalist who reaches out to an interviewee on Twitter, a woman who has been the victim of intrusions into her privacy via hacking," Murphy says. "For the most part they are pen pals, via new technologies. And then she saves his life." Premiere production The play opened at Sydney's Belvoir on 25 February – 2 April 2017. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Murphy (Australian Playwright)
Tommy Murphy (born 1979) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director . He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir '' Holding the Man''. His most recent plays are ''Mark Colvin's Kidney'' and '' Packer & Sons''. Early life Murphy was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, the seventh of eight children in a Catholic family. Murphy attended St Edmund's College, Canberra. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA 2004) and of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's course). Career He was a resident writer at Griffin Theatre Company 2004–06, for which he wrote ''Strangers in Between'' and '' Holding the Man''. Both plays are published by Currency Press, in one volume. ''Strangers in Between'' won the national 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play, and ''Holding the Man'' won the same Award in 2007. Murphy is the youngest recipient of the award, and the only playwright to win in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Wright
Fiona Wright (born 1983) is an Australian poet and critic. Life and career Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, New South Wales. Wright has completed residencies including an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmanian Writers' Centre in 2007. She received an Emerging Writers' Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010. Wright's debut collection of poetry, ''Knuckled'' (2011) was awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012. Her book ''Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger'' (2015) is a collection of ten essays that detail the author's own experience with anorexia. ''Small Acts of Disappearance'' won the 2016 Kibble Award, which recognises life writing by women writers, and the 2016 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for both the 2016 Stella Prize and the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction. She completed a PhD at the Western Sydney University, Writing and Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wearne
Alan Wearne (born 23 July 1948) is an Australian poet. Early life and education Alan Wearne was born on 23 July 1948 and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University, where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott. He was involved in the Poets Union. Career After publishing two collections of poetry, he wrote a verse novel, ''The Nightmarkets'' (1986), which won the Australian Book Council Banjo Award and was adapted for performance with Monash University Student Theatre. His next book in the same genre, ''The Lovemakers'', won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the NSW Premier's Book of the Year in 2002, as well as the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award. The first half of the novel was published by Penguin, and its second by the ABC in 2004 as ''The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing'' and co-won The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies' Colin Roderick Award and the H. T. Priestly Medal. Despite this critical success n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Li
Bella Li (born 1983) is a Chinese-born Australian poet. Early life and career Li was born in China in 1983. When she was three she and parents migrated to Australia. Li has an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne. In 2020 she received a PhD from the same university for her thesis, "The Forest, the Desert and the Road: Chronotopes of American Spaces in Twentieth-century Long-form Poetry; and a Creative Work, 'Hotel America'". Her poetry has appeared in ''Meanjin'', Cordite and other literary journals. In 2017 Li was awarded a literary grant by the Australia Council. She served as a judge for the 2020 '' Overland'' Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Awards and recognition * Shortlisted, University of Melbourne's Australian Centre Literary Awards, Wesley Michel Wright Prize, 2014 for ''Maps, Cargo'' * Highly commended, Anne Elder Award, 2017 for ''Argosy'' * Shortlisted, Red Room Poetry fellowship, 2017 * Commended, University of Melbourne's Australian Centre Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Farrell (poet)
Michael Farrell (born 1965) is a contemporary Australian poet. Biography Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales in 1965. He presently lives in Melbourne, where he is the Australian editor of ''Slope'' magazine. Published works * ''living at the z'', 2000 * ''ode ode'', Salt Publishing, 2002. * ''a raiders guide'', Giramondo, 2008. * ''open sesame'', Giramondo, 2012. * ''Cocky's joy'', Giramondo, 2015. * ''I Love Poetry'', Giramondo, 2017. * ''Family Trees'', Giramondo, 2020. * ''Googlecholia'', Giramondo, 2022. Awards * Harri Jones Memorial Prize, 1999: winner * The Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, 2003, shortlisted for ''Ode Ode'' *Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection, 2018, winner for ''I Love Poetry'' *NSW Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From The Wreck
''From the Wreck'' is a 2017 historical and science fiction novel by Australian writer Jane Rawson. It was first published as a paperback original in March 2017 in Australia by Transit Lounge Publishing. The book is based on the 1859 shipwreck of the Australian steamship, the SS ''Admella'' and is a fictionalised account of Rawson's great-great-grandfather George Hills, a survivor from the wreck, and his encounter with a shapeshifting alien. ''From the Wreck'' was well received by Australian critics. It won the 2017 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel, and was shortlisted for several other awards. In April 2019 the book was published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Picador. Plot summary The steamship ''Admella'' smashes into a reef off the coast of South Australia. George Hills, a ship's steward, is one of a number of survivors clinging to the remains of the ship for eight days with no food and water. He is protected from the bitter cold by Bridget Ledwith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Rawson
Jane Rawson is an Australian writer and environmentalist. She has published four books, and is best known for her 2017 novel ''From the Wreck'', which won the Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel. In 2018 Rawson was a recipient of the Australia Council grants for arts projects for individuals and groups in the literature category to the value of AU$34,830. Life Rawson was born and schooled in Canberra, Australia. After studying journalism at the University of Canberra, she relocated to Melbourne where she was employed as a travel writer by Lonely Planet. Her job took her to several destinations around the world, including California, Prague and Phnom Penh. After running out of money, Rawson returned to Melbourne where she became editor of the environment and energy section of a news website, ''The Conversation''. In 2013 Rawson moved to the Huon Valley in Tasmania where she took up employment as a bureaucrat. Rawson has published several essays on environment issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Nullius (Coleman Novel)
''Terra Nullius'' is a 2017 speculative fiction novel by Claire G. Coleman. It draws from Australia's colonial history, describing a society split into "Natives" and "Settlers." Publication history *2017, Australia, Hachette Australia *2017, USA, Small Beer Press Reception Judges of the Stella Prize called ''Terra Nullius'' "an arresting and original novel", while a reviewer for the '' Sydney Review of Books'' described it as "a cleverly multiplicitous text" and "an ambitious mirror for settler Australia". ''Terra Nullius'' has also been reviewed by ''Australian Book Review'', '' Publishers Weekly'', '' Locus'', ''Antipodes'', '' The Adelaide Review'', ArtsHub, ''Kirkus Reviews'', and ''Library Journal''. Awards and nominations * 2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Debut shortlist * 2019 International Dublin Literary Award longlist * 2018 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction highly commended * 2018 Tin Duck Award for Best Professional Long Written Work winner * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire G
Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, municipality located on the Island of Montreal * Clair, Saskatchewan United States * Lake Claire (Atlanta), Georgia, neighborhood * Le Claire, Iowa, city in Scott County * Eau Claire, Michigan, village in Berrien County * Eau Claire, Pennsylvania, borough in Butler County * Claire City, South Dakota, town in Roberts County * Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city * Eau Claire County, Wisconsin * Saint Clair, Missouri, city * St. Clair County, Michigan * St. Clair, Michigan, city * St. Clair, Minnesota, city * St. Clair, Pennsylvania, city * St. Clair Shores, Michigan, city Scotland * Clair oilfield in the Atlantic Ocean, 75 km west of Shetland Other uses * Clair (Hampshire cricketer), English professional cricketer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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