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Red Heaven (novel)
'' Red Heaven'' is a 2021 novel by the Australian author Nicolas Rothwell. It was the winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction. Synopsis The unnamed boy at the centre of this novel is raised by two aunts in Europe: Serghiana, who is the daughter of a Soviet general in the communist regime who goes on to work as a film producer in California; Madame Ady, who is a fashionable Viennese woman married to a famous conductor. How these two conflicting aunts try to influence the boy will have a profound effect on him for the rest of his life. Notes * Dedication: 'In memory of NS, brother spirit' * Epigraph: "The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come." Critical reception In ''Australian Book Review'' reviewer Paul Giles noted: "Abjuring the idea of the novel as a mere social construction, ''Red Heaven'' attempts instead to resuscitate ‘ghosts’ buried deep within the narrator’s psyche." The reviewer concluded that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for ''The Australian'' newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with two novels and several works of non-fiction to his name. Background Rothwell is the child of Czech and Australian parents. His father Bruce Rothwell was a prominent journalist, and the family resided in Australia, Washington DC, and New York among other places. Rothwell attended boarding school in Switzerland and France, and graduated from the University of Oxford. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a foreign correspondent for ''The Australian'' and reported from the Americas, the Pacific and Western and Eastern Europe, latterly during the Yugoslav conflict. Burned out by the latter upheaval, in the 1990s he sought out a posting in Australia, again for ''The Australian'' newspaper. , he was based in Far North Queensland. His partner is indigenous activist and politician Alison Anderson. Journalism The majority of Rothwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng Ho and others, with a small book publishing division known as Text Publishing. Michael Heyward joined in 1992, and the small publishing house became independent in 1994. When Text Media was taken over by Fairfax Media in 2004, Michael Heyward and his wife Penny Hueston entered into a joint venture with Scottish publisher Canongate. Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011, making it a wholly Australian-owned company. In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, republishing out-of-print works. In January 2025, Text announced that it had been acquired by Penguin Random House. People As of August 2022, Heyward was the publisher. Awards Text awards The Text Prize for Young Adult and ... [...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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Literary Awards
The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing. These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to." History The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disestab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021. Major publications Literary fiction * Aravind Adiga – ''Amnesty'' * Michael Mohammed Ahmad – ''The Other Half of You'' * Larissa Behrendt – '' After Story'' * Steven Carroll – ''O'' * Michelle de Kretser – ''Scary Monsters'' * Jennifer Down – '' Bodies of Light'' * Briohny Doyle – ''Echolalia'' * Max Easton – ''The Magpie Wing'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''The Ripping Tree'' * Anita Heiss – '' Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams'' * Tom Keneally – '' Corporal Hitler's Pistol'' * John Kinsella – ''Pushing Back'' * Emily Maguire – ''Love Objects'' * Jennifer Mills – ''The Airways'' * Alice Pung – ''One Hundred Days'' * Nicolas Rothwell – ''Red Heaven'' * Claire Thomas – ''The Performance'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''7 ½'' * Michael Winkler – '' Grimmish'' Short story collections * Tony Birch – ''Dark as Last Night'' Children's and youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Australian Novels
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Prime Minister's Literary Award-winning Works
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, or , involve 5 itself. However, 4 is composite because it is a product (2 × 2) in which both numbers are smaller than 4. Primes are central in number theory because of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every natural number greater than 1 is either a prime itself or can be factorized as a product of primes that is unique up to their order. The property of being prime is called primality. A simple but slow method of checking the primality of a given number , called trial division, tests whether is a multiple of any integer between 2 and . Faster algorithms include the Miller–Rabin primality test, which is fast but has a small chance of error, and the AKS primality test, which always produces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
