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Helen Trinca
Helen Trinca is an Australian journalist and author. She has been managing editor and as is associate editor at ''The Australian''. Background Trinca was born in Perth and graduated from the city's University of Western Australia with a BA in English and anthropology. She began her career in journalism on ''The West Australian''. She moved to Sydney in 1980. A former contributor to the ''Griffith Review'' and ''Australasian Business Intelligence'', Trinca previously held senior positions at ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Writing Her third book, ''Madeleine'', is a biography of Madeleine St John, who was the first Australian female writer to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1997. Trinca's book was a joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Bibliography * ''Waterfront: The Battle That Changed Australia'', (Doubleday (publisher)/Transworld, 2000) co-authored with Anne Davies, * ''Better Than Sex: How A Whole Generation Got Hooked On Work'', (Rando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatewatching." (2008). "''The Australian'' has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics." As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth
Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River, upon which the city's #Central business district, central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany and various other facilities elsewhere. UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia and began teaching students two years later. It is the sixth-oldest university in Australia and was Western Australia's only university until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973. Because of its age and reputation, UWA is classed one of the "sandstone universities", an informal designation given to the oldest university in each state. The university also belongs to several more formal groupings, including the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight and the Matariki Network of Universities. In recent years, UWA has generally been ranked either in the bottom half or just outside the University rankings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffith Review
''Griffith Review'' is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork from established and emerging writers and artists. Each edition focuses on a contemporary theme, enabling pertinent issues to be aired and discussed in a public forum. The publication was founded in 2003. It was founded and developed by Griffith University in Australia, and initially published by ABC Books.Cica, Natasha (2003)"Griffith Review: Insecurity in the New World Order", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 24 October 2003. In 2009, Text Publishing became the ''Review's'' publishing partner and distributor. Therefore, the magazine has bases in both Brisbane and Melbourne. Julianne Schultz was the founding editor and has been publisher since 2018, when Ashley Hay was appointed editor. Awards * 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate was awarded to Frank Moorhouse fo"The Writer in a time of terror" publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine St John
Madeleine St John (12 November 194118 June 2006) was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted Beresford, Bruce (2009) "In memory of a friendship", ''The Canberra Times'', 28 March 2009, Panorama, p. 9 for the Booker Prize for Fiction (in 1997 for her novel ''The Essence of the Thing''). Biography St John was born in 1941 in Castlecrag, a suburb of Sydney, and schooled at Queenwood School for Girls, Mosman. She was born to Edward St John, a Queen's Counsel, the son of a Church of England clergyman. Her French mother, Sylvette (Cargher), died by suicide when St John was 12. Her maternal grandparents were Romanian Jews."St John, Madeleine (1941–2006)" obituary by Christopher Potter, '' |
List Of Winners And Shortlisted Authors Of The Booker Prize For Fiction
4 The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language. There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the " Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for ''Midnight's Children'' (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. ''Midnight's Children'' also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special " Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was won by Michael Ondaatje for ''The English Patient''. Winners, shortlists and longlists * Awarded in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.Call for entries (22 February 2008) The awards were designed as "a new initiative celebrating the contribution of to the nation's cultural and intellectual life." The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total. In 2011, the prize money was spl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an Imprint (trade name), imprint, not a publisher. History The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure. McClure had founded the first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 (McClure Syndicate) and the monthly ''McClure's Magazine'' in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was ''The Day's Work'' by Rudyard Kipling, a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Davies (Australian Journalist)
Anne Davies is a former Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Biography She is an alumna of SCEGGS Darlinghurst, an inner-city school for girls in Sydney, Australia. Career Davies has previously been the state political editor and urban affairs editor for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and also spent 10 years covering U.S. federal politics. She currently writes an opinion column, "National Times," for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2002, she won a Gold Walkley, an investigative journalism award, with Kate McClymont for coverage of a rugby league salary cap scandal associated with the Canterbury Bulldogs. She is a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance union in Australia. She was a panelist in May 2010 at the Sydney Writers Festival. Together with Helen Trinca, Davies co-authored the book ''Waterfront: The Battle That Changed Australia'', (Doubleday/Transworld, 2000) about the 1998 stand-off betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Fox (journalist)
Catherine Louise Fox is an Australian freelance journalist, author, feminist and public speaker. Education Fox completed her secondary education at Brigidine College, St Ives. She has a BA in communications from the University of Technology, Sydney and an MA (Hons) from the University of New South Wales. Her 1992 Masters thesis was titled "Media Segmentation in the Australian Women's Magazine Sector". Career Fox began her career in the financial services sector in Sydney and London and then joined The Australian Financial Review, fulfilling many roles including deputy editor, "Boss" magazine and Corporate Woman columnist. In 2012 she was co-chair of the first annual Westpac/ Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards. In August 2012 Fox was a keynote speaker at the Inaugural Australasian Women in Business Law Awards, held in Sydney. Fox commenced her freelance career in early 2013 and has presented at conferences, writers' festivals and been a regular contributor to W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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