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Ryan O'Neill (author)
Ryan O'Neill (born 1975) is an Australian writer of fiction and academic. He is especially known for '' Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers'', which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2017. Early years and education Ryan O'Neill was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1975, and spent the first 25 years of his life in Scotland. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, and Master of Science (Accounting) from the University of Bristol in England. He undertook a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults through International House in Sydney, Australia, and later earned his PhD at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales. Career O'Neill first worked as an English language teacher in Lithuania, China, and Rwanda, and later settled in Newcastle. Writing O'Neill became known for writing short stories. "An Australian Short Story", first published online i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Infobox writer may be used to summarize information about a person who is a writer/author (includes screenwriters). If the writer-specific fields here are not needed, consider using the more general ; other infoboxes there can be found in :People and person infobox templates. This template may also be used as a module (or sub-template) of ; see WikiProject Infoboxes/embed for guidance on such usage. Syntax The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. All fields are optional. Any unused parameter names can be left blank or omitted. Parameters Please remove any parameters from an article's infobox that are unlikely to be used. All parameters are optional. Unless otherwise specified, if a parameter has multiple values, they should be comma-separated using the template: : which produces: : , language= If any of the individual values contain commas already, add to use semi-colons as separators: : which produces: : , pseu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. Early life Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz. Perec's father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from untreated gunfire or shrapnel wounds, and his mother was killed in the Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz sometime after 1943. Perec was taken into the care of his paternal aunt and uncle in 1942, and in 1945, he was formally adopted by them. Career Perec started writing reviews and essays for ''La Nouvelle Revue français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Porter
Harold Edward "Hal" Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer. He is known for his 1963 memoir, ''The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony''. The Hal Porter Short Story Competition continues to honour his name, awarding a prize of $1000 to the writer of a short story each year. Early life and education Harold Edward Porter was born on 16 February 1911 in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park, Victoria, the eldest child of six. His parents, both in Victoria, were railway employee Harold Owen Porter and Ida Violet (née Ruff). They first lived at 36 Bellair Street, Kensington. He moved with his family to Bairnsdale when he was six, and grew up there. He was always known as "Hal". While at school in Bairnsdale, he started doing creative writing, getting pieces published in school magazines. Career After leaving school, Porter worked briefly as a journalist on the '' Bairnsdale Advertiser''. He also worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Patric
Alec or Aleck is a Scottish form of the given name Alex. It may be a shortened form of the name Alexander or a given name in its own right. Notable people with the name include: People * Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat * Alec Acton (1938–1994), English footballer * Alec Albiston (1917–1998), Australian rules footballer * Alec Alston (1937–2009), English footballer * Alec and Peter Graham (1881–1957), New Zealand mountaineers, guides, and hotel operators * Alec Anderson (American football, born 1894) (1894–1953), American NFL player * Alec Asher (born 1991), American MLB player * Alec Ashworth (1939–1995), English professional footballer * Alec Astle (born 1949), New Zealand former cricketer * Alec Atkinson (1919–2015), British Royal Air Force officer and civil servant * Alec B. Francis (1867–1934), English silent-film actor * Alec Bagot (1893–1968), South Australian adventurer, polemicist, and politician * Alec Baillie (died 2020), American bassist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
