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Boy Swallows Universe
''Boy Swallows Universe'' is the debut novel by Australian writer Trent Dalton. It was originally published by Fourth Estate in Australia in 2018. Synopsis This semi-biographical coming-of-age novel is set in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1983. Eli Bell is a traumatised teenager with an absent father, a mute brother, an imprisoned mother, and a heroin dealer for a stepfather. Publication history After its original publication in 2018 in Australia by publisher Fourth Estate the novel was later republished as follows: * HarperCollins, US, 2019 * Fourth Estate, Australia, 2019, 2023 * The Borough Press, UK, 2019, 2020 The novel was also translated into Spanish, Swedish, French, Dutch, Finnish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, and Lithuanian in 2019; Italian, Polish, and Russian in 2020; and German, Korean, Japanese and Hebrew in 2021. It became the fastest-selling debut novel in Australian history, selling more than a million copies worldwide. Critical reception John Collee in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is an Australian journalist and literary fiction author. Early life Trent Dalton grew up in a Housing Commission house in Bracken Ridge, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Brisbane. Journalism Dalton worked as a journalist for ''The Courier-Mail''. he works as a staff writer for '' The Weekend Australian Magazine''. Works ''Boy Swallows Universe'' In 2018 he published the semi-autobiographical novel '' Boy Swallows Universe (novel)'' through 4th Estate, which was longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. In May 2019 the film adaptation rights for ''Boy Swallows Universe'' were won by Anonymous Content, Chapter One and Hopscotch Features, to be directed by Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton. Queensland Theatre Company developed a play from the book, its performance delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia in 2020, but later scheduled to premiere in September at the 2021 Brisbane Festival. In March 2022, Netflix announced to develop a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books+Publishing
''Books+Publishing'' (formerly ''Bookseller+Publisher'' and ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'') is a news outlet reporting on the Australian book industry. Published as a website with daily newsletters and a print magazine, the outlet produces industry news about publishing, bookselling, libraries, rights sales, literary awards and literary festivals, as well as author interviews and pre-publication reviews of Australian and New Zealand books. History ''Books+Publishing'' was founded as a magazine in 1921 by Daniel Wrixon Thorpe as the ''Australian Stationery and Fancy Goods Journal'', at a time when there were few Australian retailers solely focused on the sale of books. The magazine has been continuously published ever since, changing its name to ''Ideas'' in the 1937. The name then change to ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'' in 1971 when the D. W. Thorpe company was taken over by Thorpe's daughter, Joyce Nicholson. In 1971, the company began publishing the ''Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Australian Novels
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2018 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018. Major publications Literary fiction * Michael Mohammed Ahmad, ''The Lebs'' * Robbie Arnott, ''Flames'' * Trent Dalton, '' Boy Swallows Universe (novel)'' * Gregory Day, ''A Sand Archive'' * Ceridwen Dovey, ''In the Garden of the Fugitives'' * Rodney Hall, ''A Stolen Season'' * Gail Jones, '' The Death of Noah Glass'' * Eleanor Limprecht, ''The Passengers'' * Melissa Lucashenko, ''Too Much Lip'' * Jennifer Mills, ''Dyschronia'' * Heather Morris, ''The Tattooist of Auschwitz'' * Kate Morton, ''The Clockmaker's Daughter'' * Kristina Olsson, ''Shell'' * Ryan O'Neill, ''99 Interpretations of The Drover's Wife'' * Kim Scott, ''Taboo'' * Tim Winton, ''The Shepherd's Hut'' * Markus Zusak, ''Bridge of Clay'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Maxine Beneba Clarke, ''Wide Big World'', illustrated by Isobel Knowles * Mem Fox, ''Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again'', illustrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Mordaunt
Kim Mordaunt is a well known Australian director, cinematographer and actor who comes from a documentary background. He graduated from UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) and got a diploma in acting from LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). Popular works Bomb Harvest ''Bomb Harvest'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt and produced by Sylvia Wilczynski. It explores the consequences of war in Laos as it follows an Australian bomb disposal specialist, training locals in t ... (2007) - A feature- length documentary was nominated for Best Documentary (IF Awards, ATOM Awards and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards), Best Director (ADG Awards), Best Cinematography (AFI Awards) and won Best Feature (children's rights) at Hollywood's Artivist Awards. The Rocket (2013) won the best Original Screenplay at the AACTA Awards, Best Original Screenplay at the AWGIE Awards, the Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. She has directed films such as ''Proof'', ''How to Make an American Quilt'', '' A Thousand Acres'' and '' The Dressmaker''. Moorhouse has also collaborated with her husband, film director P. J. Hogan on films such as '' Muriel's Wedding'' (1994) and ''Mental'' (2012). Early life Moorhouse was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School where her mother taught art, which is the same high school that Gillian Armstrong attended a few years earlier. She then enrolled in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Career It was while studying at AFTRS that Moorhouse completed her first short film entitled ''Pavane'' in 1983. She graduated from AFTRS in 1984 and started work as television script editor. She created a 12-part series called ''c/o The Bartons'' for ABC Television in 1988, which was based on one of her sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharat Nalluri
Bharat Nalluri (born 1965) is a British–Indian film and television director. Personal life Nalluri was born in India. He moved to England at a young age with his family and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He has an MA in Film from The Northern School of Film and Television. He is married to journalist Kylie Morris, the former Washington correspondent for the UK's '' Channel 4 News''. Career Nalluri directed a miniseries for HBO called '' Tsunami: The Aftermath'', for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. This two-part drama starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okenedo, Tim Roth, Hugh Bonneville and Toni Collette, told the story of the tragic events that occurred in Thailand in December 2004. Ejiofor and Okenedo garnered NAACP nominations for best supporting actor and best actress, which Okenedo went on to win. Toni Collette was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actress. In 2014, he direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Swallows Universe (TV Series)
''Boy Swallows Universe'' is an Australian coming of age television limited series for Netflix based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Trent Dalton. Produced by Andrew Mason and Troy Lum and written by John Collee, the story revolves around Eli Bell, a working-class youth who enters Brisbane's underworld to save his mother from danger. Cast * Felix Cameron as Eli Bell (age 13) ** Zac Burgess as Eli Bell (age 17) ** Auden Ryan as Eli Bell (age 6) * Lee Tiger Halley as August "Gus" Bell, Eli's brother ** Jake Cockburn as August "Gus" Bell (age 7) * Travis Fimmel as Lyle Orlik, Gus and Eli's stepfather * Simon Baker as Robert Bell, Gus and Eli's father * Phoebe Tonkin as Frances Bell, Gus and Eli's mother * Bryan Brown as Slim Halliday, Gus and Eli's babysitter * Anthony LaPaglia as Tytus Broz, boss and drug dealer * Sophie Wilde as Caitlyn Spies, newspaper journalist * Toby Schmitz as Detective Tim Cotton, corrupt police officer * Christopher James Baker a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Theatre
Queensland Theatre, formerly the Queensland Theatre Company and Royal Queensland Theatre Company, is a professional theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia. It regularly performs in its own Bille Browne Theatre and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Playhouse. The company was founded in 1970 by British actor and director Alan Edwards with a full company of performers. It was granted the prefix "Royal" in 1984. It is currently headed by executive director Amanda Jolly and artistic director Lee Lewis. History The company has a strong history of development programs and has always aimed to encourage artistic growth across the state. There is an emerging artists program, writing program, including the Queensland Premier's Drama Award, and regional partnerships program. Emphasis is also placed on developing and inspiring young people through the company's education and youth program, with programs including The Scene Project, Youth Ensemble, Theatre Residency Week, Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Dublin Literary Award
The International Dublin Literary Award ( ga, Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English-language novel '' Remembering Babylon''. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide – over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide are invited to nominate books each year – from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic '' My Brilliant Career'' (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued A$60,000. __TOC__ Winners Controversies Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel Grand Days because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian. 1995 winner Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for The Hand that signed the Paper and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian descent and said it was fiction based on family history. Writer David Marr, who presented the award to her said that revelations about her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
