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2023 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Women & Children'' * Trent Dalton – ''Lola in the Mirror'' * Gregory Day – ''The Bell of the World'' * Kate Grenville – ''Restless Dolly Maunder'' * John Kinsella – ''Cellnight: A verse novel'' * Melissa Lucashenko – ''Edenglassie'' * Kate Morton – ''Homecoming'' * Mirandi Riwoe – ''Sunbirds'' * Tracy Sorensen – ''The Vitals'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''The In-Between'' * Pip Williams – '' The Bookbinder of Jericho'' * Charlotte Wood – ''Stone Yard Devotional'' * Alexis Wright – '' Praiseworthy'' Short story collections * Graeme Simsion – ''Creative Differences: And Other Stories'' * Laura Jean McKay – ''Gunflower'' Non-Fiction * Chanel Contos – ''Consent Laid Bare'' * Robyn Davidson – ''Unfinished Woman'' * Marele Day – ''Reckless'' * Martin Flanagan – ''The Empty Honour Board'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Birch
Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015. In 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. Early life and education Birch was born around 1957 and has grown up around Fitzroy, a working-class suburb of Melbourne considered a slum. After being expelled from school for the second time, he left school aged 15 and became a telegram boy on a bicycle. Career After spending a decade as a firefighter, Birch attended Melbourne university as a mature student when he was 30 years old. In 2003 he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal for the best PhD in Arts. Birch has appeared on ABC radio on show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanel Contos
Chanel Contos is an Australian student and sexual consent activist. Contos became known globally in 2021, following an outpouring of responses to her request for young Australian women to report on their sexual assault experiences. She is the founder of Teach Us Consent and chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership's Youth Advisory Committee. Early life and education Contos grew up first in the outer Sydney suburb of Glenorie, New South Wales Glenorie is a rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 44 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire. Glenorie is part o ..., then moved to Vaucluse, an affluent suburb in Sydney. She attended Kambala School in Sydney, before studying at the University of New South Wales for a bachelor's degree in commerce and arts. In 2020, she began a master's degree in gender and education at University College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Wallace
Christine Wallace (born 1960) is an Australian political journalist, biographer and academic. She is currently an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow at the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Her publications include biographies of John Hewson (1993), Germaine Greer (1997), and Don Bradman (2004). Education Wallace is a graduate of the Australian National University (BA, politics and history), University of Sydney (BEc) and the Australian Graduate School of Management (MBA). In 2015, she completed her PhD (Australian National University) on political biography as political intervention. Career Political journalist Wallace was a member of the Canberra Press Gallery and worked for a wide range of print and electronic media outlets including ''The Australian'', ''The Australian Financial Review'', ''Business Review Weekly'', ABC Television, 666 ABC Canberra and the Adelaide radio station 5AA. After a decade of political and economic journalism, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons (born 1960) is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She has written numerous articles and essays as well as many books, including a biography of Senate leader of the Australian Labor Party Penny Wong. Her essay ''Fallen Angels'' won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism. She is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. Early life and education Simons was born in the UK in 1960. Simons has a doctorate in creative arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. Career In 2010 Simons co-founded, with Melissa Sweet, the community-funded news site YouComm News, run by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation based at Swinburne University of Technology. At this time, she was a research fellow at the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne, and also a Senior Associate of RMIT University. She co-authored the memoirs of Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia (with Fraser) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Preston
Matt Preston (born 21 July 1961) is an English-Australian food critic, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's ''MasterChef Australia'' between 2009 and 2019, and for his weekly national food column that appears in NewsCorp's metro newspapers, with a combined reach of over 2.9 million Australians each week. Preston is also a senior editor for ''Delicious.'' and ''Taste'' magazines, and is also the author of four best-selling cookbooks. Career Preston is the son of British naval historian and journalist Antony Preston. He was born in London, United Kingdom, to a Roman Catholic family and from the age of 11 was educated at Worth School, a Benedictine monastic boarding school in West Sussex. He graduated from the University of Kent with a BA Hons in Politics and Government. While growing up in London in the late 1970s, he became a DJ and punk rock musician. After a few stints working at City Limits and IPC Magazines (''TVTime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Marr (journalist)
David Ewan Marr FAHA (born 13 July 1947) is an Australian journalist, author and progressive political and social commentator. His areas of expertise include the law, Australian politics, censorship, the media and the arts. He writes for ''The Monthly'', '' The Saturday Paper'' and ''Guardian Australia''. Career Marr attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School in North Sydney and subsequently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1971.Who's Who in Australia – entry on David Marr Whilst at university he was a resident of St Paul's College. He worked for a time as an articled clerk at the law firm Allen, Allen and Hemsley, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor before turning to journalism. Marr began as a journalist working for ''The Bulletin'' magazine and '' The National Times'' newspaper in 1972 before being appointed editor in 1980. During this period, he oversaw the publication of the articl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Krasnostein
Sarah Krasnostein is an American-Australian non-fiction writer and legal academic. Education Krasnostein completed a BA/LLB (honours) degree from the University of Melbourne in 2005. She was admitted as an attorney of the State of New York in 2006, and in 2009 she was admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia. She worked as a lawyer in the Victorian Department of Justice from 2007 to 2011. She graduated with a PhD in criminal law from Monash University in 2016. Her thesis, "Pursuing Consistency: The Effect of Different Reforms on Unjustified Disparity in Individualised Sentencing Frameworks", was awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law. Her research has been cited by the Victorian Court of Appeal, the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council, and various academic journals. Writing Krasnostein's first book, ''The Trauma Cleaner'', was published in 2017. She spent four years researching the book, which is a work of narrative non-fiction about the life and work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Johnson (Australian Author)
Susan Johnson (born 1956) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. She has been a full-time writer since 1985, with occasional stints of journalism at Australian newspapers, journals and magazines. Biography Johnson was born in 1956, in Brisbane, Queensland. She spent her childhood in Sydney, attending St Ives High School In New South Wales and then Nambour High School and Clayfield College in Queensland. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology. Her latest novel ''The Landing'' was published in August, 2015. At the National Library of Australia Johnson delivered the ''2011 Ray Mathew Lecture'' entitled "Prodigal Daughter", in which she explored the topic of expatriate Australian women authors, her ambivalent relationship to Australia, and Australia's attitude towards its artists. Susan Johnson was on the program to appear in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Grant (journalist)
Stan Grant (born 30 September 1963) is an Australian journalist, writer and radio and television presenter, since the 1990s. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man. Early years Grant was born on 30 September 1963 in Griffith, New South Wales, the son of Stan Grant Sr, an elder of the Wiradjuri people and Betty Grant (nee Cameron), born near Coonabarabran, the daughter of a white woman and an Kamilaroi Aboriginal man. The Wiradjuri are an Aboriginal Australian people from the south-west inland region of New South Wales. He spent much of his childhood in inner Victoria where the Wiradjuri also have roots. Career Journalism Grant has more than 30 years of experience working in broadcast radio and television news and current affairs. He spent several years as a news presenter on the Australian Macquarie Radio Network, Seven, SBS, along with a long-term stint at CNN International as a Senior International Correspon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda (born 1947) is an Australian journalist and was editor of ''The Age'' from 1997 to 2004. He was appointing inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, launched in 2008.The centre's mission is to improve the practice of journalism through dialogue between journalists and the general community to stimulate public debate on important issues facing journalism. Life as a refugee Gawenda was born 1947 in a refugee camp in Austria. His family moved to Melbourne, Australia, in 1949. Gawenda attended Caulfield North state school. He studied economics and politics at a university. Career He started his career in 1970, joining ''The Age'' as a cadet journalist. In 1997 he became an editor and in 2003 the editor-in-chief. Before that, was a senior editor with ''TIME''. During 2002 he became the subject of controversy when, as Editor-in Chief, he rejected a Michael Leunig cartoon which juxtaposed an image of a Jew standing at the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Funder
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of '' Stasiland'' and '' All That I Am'' and the novella ''The Girl With the Dogs''. Life Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended Star of the Sea College and graduated as Dux in 1983. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin, and holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). She also has an MA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney. Funder worked for the Australian Government as an international lawyer in human rights, constitutional law and treaty negotiation, before turning to writing full-time in the late 1990s. Anna Funder's writing has received numerous accolades and awards. Her essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in numerous publications, such as ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''Best Australian Essays'' and ''The Monthly''. She has t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clementine Ford (writer)
Clementine Ford is an Australian feminist writer, broadcaster and public speaker. She wrote a regular column for ''Daily Life'' for seven years. Personal life Ford spent much of her childhood growing up in the Middle East, specifically in Oman on the eastern border of the United Arab Emirates. At the age of twelve, her family relocated to England. Ford spent the remainder of her teenage years growing up in Adelaide, South Australia. As a teenager, she struggled with body image, body dysmorphia and an eating disorder. Ford studied at the University of Adelaide, where she took a gender studies course; she describes this as a personal catalyst for her decision to become a women's rights activist. During her time at the university she also worked as an editor and contributor for the student newspaper '' On Dit''. Ford moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2011. She announced the birth of her son in August 2016. Career In 2007 Ford began writing a column for Adelaide's '' Sunday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
