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ASA Medal
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) was formed in 1963 as the organisation to promote and protect the rights of Australia's authors and illustrators. The Fellowship of Australian Writers played a key role it its establishment. The organisation established Public Lending Right (PLR) in 1975 and Educational Lending Right (ELR) in 2000. The ASA was also instrumental in setting up Copyright Agency, the Australian Copyright Council and the International Authors Forum. The ASA provides information and advice on all aspects of writing and publishing. It administers several awards, including the ASA Medal, the Barbara Jefferis Award, the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize, Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, and the Varuna Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency. Founding In October 1962 the President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Walter Stone, invited delegates from all other writers' societies to a meeting in Sydney to discuss the formation of a national organisation to repres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Asa may refer to: People and fictional characters * Asa (given name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters so named * Asa people, an ethnic group based in Tanzania * Aṣa, Nigerian-French singer, songwriter, and recording artist Bukola Elemide (born 1982) * Asa (rapper), Finnish rapper Matti Salo (born 1980) Biblical and mythological figures * Asa of Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David * Ása or Æsir, Norse gods Places * Asa, Hardoi Uttar Pradesh, India, a village * Asu, South Khorasan, Iran, also spelled Asa, a village * Asa, Kwara State, Nigeria, a local government area * Asa River (Japan), a tributary of the Tama River in Tokyo, Japan * Asa (Kazakhstan), a river * Asa River (Venezuela), a List of rivers in Venezuela, river in Venezuela Other uses * Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate, acrylic styrene acrylonitrile, an amorphous thermoplastic * Asa (album), ''Asa'' (album), the sixth studio album by the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Christesen
Clement Byrne Christesen (28 October 1911 – 28 June 2003) was the founder of the Australian literary magazine '' Meanjin''. He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Biography Early years Clement Byrne Christesen was born and spent his early life in Townsville. His father, Patrick, was of mixed Irish and Danish descent, while his mother Susan (née Byrne), was mostly Irish. The family moved to Brisbane in 1917, where Christesen later attended the University of Queensland. Career After leaving university, Christesen worked as a journalist at Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail'' and the ''Telegraph'', as well as a publicity officer for the Queensland government. Christesen was founding editor of '' Meanjin Papers'' which was first published in 1940, following his return from overseas travel. With an offer of full-time salary and commercial support for the publication, the magazine and its editor moved to the University of Melbourne in 1945. He retired as editor in 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Stewart (poet)
Douglas Stewart (6 May 191314 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known ''Fire on the Snow'', many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He also edited several poetry anthologies. His greatest contribution to Australian literature came from his 20 years as literary editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'', his 10 years as a publishing editor with Angus & Robertson, and his lifetime support of Australian writers.Wilde et al. (1994) p.721 Geoffrey Serle, literary critic, has described Stewart as "the greatest all-rounder of modern Australian literature". Life Douglas Stewart was born in Eltham, New Zealand, Eltham, Taranaki Province, New Zealand, to an Australian-born lawyer father. He attended primary school in his home town, and a high school th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Simpson (Australian Journalist)
Edwin Colin Simpson (4 November 19088 February 1983), known professionally by his pen name Colin Simpson, was an Australian journalist, author and traveller.Simpson, Edwin Colin (1908–1983) '''', adb.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 24 March 2022.Virginia Madsen Radio Documentary austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 24 March 2022.John Hetherington, "Colin Simpson would rather gamble with writing than anything else", (Australian Writers in Profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Robinson (poet)
Roland Edward Robinson OAM (12 June 1912 – 8 February 1992) was an Australian poet, writer and collector of Australian Aboriginal myths. Life and career Robinson was born in Balbriggan, County Dublin, Ireland in 1912. At the age of 9, in 1922 he was brought to Australia. After only a brief education he worked in various jobs, mainly in the bush as a roustabout, boundary-rider, railway fettler, fencer, dam-builder, gardener and as a lifelong love - a ballet dancer. Robinson's first published poetry appeared in ''Beyond the Grass-Tree Spears'' published in 1944. He served in the Australian Army. His love of the Australian landscape and everyday scenes were inspiration for his poetry. He was one of the most dedicated poets to the Jindyworobak Movement. As well as a writer and poet, Robinson was dance critic for ''The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Grady (writer)
John Patrick O'Grady (9 October 1907 – 14 January 1981) was an Australian writer. His works include the comic novel '' They're a Weird Mob'' (1957) using the pen name Nino Culotta and the poem ''The Integrated Adjective'', sometimes known as ''Tumba-bloody-rumba''. Biography O'Grady was born in the Sydney suburb of Waverley as the eldest of eight children to John Edward O'Grady, a Department of Lands clerk and editor of the ''Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales'', and Margaret Gleeson, both of whom were from Victoria and of Irish descent. When he was a child his father quit his Department of Lands job and moved the family to a farm on the Peel River near Tamworth. Educated by his father until the age of twelve, his first formal schooling was at St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst, which his father had previously attended. He had originally planned to do a medical degree but drought forced his family to leave the land and made this impossible, so he wound up graduating f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Martin (poet)
David Martin (22 December 1915 – 1 July 1997), born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary), was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. He also used the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny, adopting the name David Martin after moving to England. Biography Martin was born in Budapest, but educated in Germany. He left Germany in 1934, spending time in the Netherlands, Hungary and Palestine. In 1937 he travelled to Spain. where he served as a volunteer in the medical service of the International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. In 1938 Martin joined his father in London, working in his clothing factory, before moving to Glasgow in 1941 where he worked as a correspondent with the ''Daily Express''. In 1941, Martin married Elizabeth Richenda Powell, great-granddaughter of the Quaker Elizabeth Fry. They had one son, Jan. Martin returned to Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Marshall (Australian Author)
Alan Marshall , (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, Humanism, humanist and social documenter. He received the ALS Gold Medal, Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933. His best known book, ''I Can Jump Puddles'' (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography. The other two volumes are ''This is the Grass'' (1962) and ''In Mine Own Heart'' (1963). Life and work Marshall was born in Noorat, Victoria. At six years old he contracted polio, which left him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. From an early age, he resolved to be a writer and, in ''I Can Jump Puddles'', he demonstrated an almost total recall of his childhood in Noorat, Victoria, Noorat. The characters and places of his book are thinly disguised from real life: "Mount Turalla" is Mount Noorat, "Lake Turalla" is Lake Keilambete, the "Curruthers" are the Blacks, "Mrs. Conlon" is Mary Conlon of Dixie, Terang, and his be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Mann (writer)
Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet and novelist. Life Leonard Mann was born in Prahran in Melbourne on 15 November 1895. He was the son of Samuel and Kate Louise Mann and went on to be educated at Moreland State School and Wesley College. After the failure of his father's drapery business in 1913 he left his studies and worked as a clerk in the Public Service before joining up with the AIF during World War I. Mann served on the Western Front before being repatriated back to Britain in 1919 and then returning to Australia. Back in Victoria he resumed his studies at the University of Melbourne, completing a Law degree before marrying Florence Eileen Archer in January 1926. He enrolled in the Victorian Bar and began writing poetry and fiction, which resulted in the publication of his first novel, '' Flesh in Armour'', in 1932. This subsequently won Mann the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal. During World War II he worked wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert (born Alfred Jackson; 15 May 190110 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel '' Poor Fellow My Country'' (1975). He was considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for short story collections and his autobiography ''Disturbing Element''. Life and career Herbert was born Alfred Jackson in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1901, the illegitimate son of Amy Victoria Scammell and Benjamin Francis Herbert, a Welsh-born engine driver. He was registered at birth as Alfred Jackson, son of John Jackson, auctioneer, with whom his mother had already had two children. Before writing he worked many jobs in Western Australia and Victoria; his first job was in a pharmacy at the age of fourteen. He studied pharmacy at Perth Technical College and was registered as a pharmacist on 21 May 1923 as Alfred Xavier Herbert. He moved to Melbourne, and in 1935 enrolled at the University of Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir (William) Keith Hancock
Sir William Keith Hancock, (26 June 1898 – 13 August 1988), also known as W. K. Hancock, was a prominent Australian historian and academic. Hancock was an Anglican and keen admirer of the British Empire. Early life and education He was born in Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and later the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Trinity College from 1917, winning the Perry Scholarship, Trinity's most prestigious award. Too young to see service in World War I without permission from his parents, it was said that he always felt shame about the fact he could not fight; however, this age restriction did not apply after his 18th birthday in June 1916, less than halfway through the war. As the Australia-at-large Rhodes Scholar for 1921, Hancock went to Balliol Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
