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Ned Kelly Awards
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia. The genre of crime writing has long been popular, but it was not until the early 1990s that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia. By the middle of the decade support for the field had grown sufficiently that it was decided to establish the Ned Kelly Awards. The awards are affectionately referred to as 'The Neddies' within the community. Categories *Best First Novel *Best True Crime *Best Novel *Best Teenage/Young Adult *Readers Vote *Best Non-Fiction *Lifetime Achievement Awards Winners 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Shortlists Best Crime Novel 2010s 2020s Best Debut Crime Novel 2010s 2020s Best International Crime Novel Best True ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Literature
Australian literature is the literature, written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western culture, Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginality, ''mateship'', egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and "My Country, the beauty and the terror" of life in the Australian bush. Overview Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nobel-winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Maloney
Shane Maloney (born 1953) born in Hamilton, Victoria is a Melbourne author best known as the creator of the Murray Whelan series of crime novels. Life and career Maloney was educated at Christian Brothers' College, St Kilda (CBC St Kilda). He started writing after studying politics and Asian history at the Australian National University. He has worked in a wide range of situations, having held the positions of: Director of the Melbourne Comedy Festival (1987–1989), Cultural Director of Melbourne's Olympic bid and swimming pool lifeguard. Maloney lives in Melbourne. Murray Whelan series The six titles in the Murray Whelan crime thriller series (''Stiff'', ''The Brush-Off'', ''Nice Try'', ''The Big Ask'', ''Something Fishy'' and most recently ''Sucked In'') all feature the eponymous Murray Whelan, initially as a Labor Party staffer who provides support to a Victorian State Government minister but later as a member of the Victorian State parliament. The novels are ordered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Corris
Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing", particularly for his Cliff Hardy novels. Biography Corris' secondary school education was at Melbourne High School. He was a Bachelor level student at the University of Melbourne, then gained a Master of Arts in history at Monash University. He studied at the Australian National University where he was awarded a PhD in history on the topic of the South Seas Islander slave trade (Kanakas). He continued these studies as a university lecturer, but later became a journalist, being a literary editor of the ''National Times''. He recalled "I got sick of the literary editor shit. I got fucking sick of new books, beautiful new hardbacks flowing in every week in their dust covers, filling the cupboard up. For the first year or so I though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Masterson
Andrew Masterson (born 1961 in the United Kingdom) is an Australian author of crime fiction, horror and non-fiction. Masterson emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1968. He has worked as a journalist since 1984 in a number of countries, including Australia, the UK, Germany and the United States. He has a teenager named Cato, and a wife named Sahm. Awards * Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best first crime novel, 1999: winner for ''The Last Days : the apocryphon of Joe Panther'' * Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Division, Best Novel, 1999: shortlisted for ''The Letter Girl'' * Ned Kelly Awards Awards for Crime Writing, Best Crime Novel, 2001: joint winner for ''The Second Coming : the passion of Joe Panther'' Bibliography Novels *'' The Last Days: the Apocryphon of Joe Panther'' (1998) *'' The Letter Girl'' (1999) *'' The Second Coming: the Passion of Joe Panther'' (2000) *''Death of the Author'' (2001) Non-fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Days (Australian Novel)
''The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther'' is a 1998 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Andrew Masterson. Synopsis Private investigator Joe Panther is engaged by Father Brendan Corrigan to help look inot the detah of a local girl, who has been found crucified above the altar of Corrigan's church. Added to that the girl's head has been placed in a separate box. But Joe isn't who he seems to be, or so he claims. Reviews Writing for the ''Tabula Rasa'' website David Carroll noted: "Masterson manages to weave the theology together with a reasonably taut crime novel and bleed the conventions of each into one another. On the theology side, there is a dizzying array of historical anecdote, classical quotation and biblical reinterpretation, plus a bit of mysticism on the side, all arranged precisely. On the crime side there is increasing ripples of significance as the investigation into the murder starts taking on international ramifications, and perhaps beyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaze Your Friends
''Amaze Your Friends'' is a 1998 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Doyle. This is book 2 in the author's Billy Glasheen series of novels. Synopsis Set in Sydney in the 1950s this novel follows Billy Glasheen as he attempts to raise ten thousand pounds to pay off a corrupt police officer. If he can't make that in six months he'll find himself six feet under. Critical reception Damo Gay, writing on the ''Australian Crime Fiction HQ'' website noted: "''Amaze Your Friends'' is a dark hardboiled crime story that will take a man and subject him to all manner of adversity. It's set in Sydney as the 1950s are drawing to a close, following the attempts of a small-time hustler to come up with some money as quickly as possible. It's a wild and unpredictable ride through the low-life haunts of the city's drug-dens, dealing with corrupt cops while trying to maintain a string of dodgy mail-order scams...At times it's crude and at others it's graphic, but it's most de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1999. Events * Murray Bail won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Eucalyptus'' * Jan Fullerton was appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia, being the first woman and first internal appointee Major publications Novels * Thea Astley — ''Drylands'' * Lily Brett — ''Too Many Men'' * Marshall Browne – ''The Burnt City'' * Kate Grenville — '' The Idea of Perfection'' * Dorothy Hewett — ''Neap Tide'' * Julia Leigh — '' The Hunter'' * Michael Meehan — '' The Salt of Broken Tears'' * Bruce Pascoe — ''Shark'' * Dorothy Porter — ''What a Piece of Work'' * Matthew Reilly — '' Ice Station'' * Heather Rose — ''White Heart'' * Kim Scott — '' Benang'' * Amy Witting — '' Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop'' Science fiction and fantasy * James Bradley — '' The Deep Field '' * Trudi Canavan – " Whispers of the Mist Children" * Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1998. Events * Peter Carey (novelist) won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Jack Maggs'' * The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were not presented as the eligibility dates were amended Major publications Novels * Murray Bail – ''Eucalyptus'' * Carmel Bird – ''Red Shoes'' * Bryce Courtenay – '' Jessica'' * Luke Davies – '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' * Martin Flanagan – '' The Call'' * Marion Halligan – ''The Golden Dress'' * Colleen McCullough – ''The Song of Troy'' * Roger McDonald – '' Mr Darwin's Shooter'' * Les Murray – '' Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse'' * Elliot Perlman – ''Three Dollars'' * Morris West – ''Eminence'' Short story anthologies * Jack Dann & Janeen Webb (ed) – ''Dreaming Down-Under'' Science fiction and fantasy * Sara Douglass – ''Pilgrim'' * Greg Egan ** '' Luminous'' (short story collection) ** "Oceanic" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Doyle (writer)
Peter Doyle (born 1951) is an Australian author, musician, visual artist, and exhibition curator. He is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Crime Writers Association of Australia. Biography Peter Doyle was born in Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which provide much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002). He also maintains a research interest in comics and the graphic novel, the history of twentieth century popular music, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas. He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to publishing his first novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Rich Quick (novel)
''Get Rich Quick'' is a 1996 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Peter Doyle. Awards *Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ... for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 1997: joint winner Reviews * "Australian Crime Fiction database References *"GET RICH QUICK (Book)." Kirkus Reviews 72.14 (15 July 2004): 661–662. *Lunn, Bob, and Rex E. Klett.. "Get Rich Quick (Book)." Library Journal 129.16 (Oct. 2004): 65-65. Australian crime novels 1996 Australian novels Ned Kelly Award–winning works {{1990s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carter Brown
Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 19235 May 1985), an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Between 1954 and 1984 Yates published 215 ‘Carter Brown’ novels and some 75 novella-length stories. Early life He was born on 1 August 1923 at Ilford, Essex, England, the only child of Harry Thomas Yates a railway clerk, and his wife Linda Annie, née Willingale. Alan worked for British Acoustic Films where he converted films from 35mm to 16mm. Enlisting in the Royal Navy in September 1942, he served aboard Landing Craft Support (Large) 504 on operations that included the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. After he was commissioned in February 1945, he spent eighteen months in the light cruiser, HMS Euryalus, in the East Indies Fleet and British Pacific Fleet where he first visited Australia. He was demobilised as a sub-lieutenant in England in January 1947. On leave in Sydney in 1945 he had met 18-year-ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marele Day
Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novelpage 62-64, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work ''How to Write Crime''. Biography Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s. Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was ''Lambs of God'' which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers; it became a bestseller. ''Lambs of God'' was adapted into a TV series of the same name in 2019, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
