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The Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction). The award derives its name from the author Miles Franklin, whose full name was "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin." It was established by a group of 11 Australian women writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who became concerned about the poor representation of books by women in Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. "After a rapid acceleration in women's rights in the '70s and '80s, things have started to go backwards," Sophie Cunningham said in a keynote address at the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival. "Women continue to be marginalised in Australian culture and the arts sector – which likes to pride itself on its liberal values – is, in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a Sponsor (commercial), corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Guest (novel)
''The Night Guest'' is a 2013 novel by the Australian author Fiona McFarlane. Synopsis Widowed Ruth is living a solitary life in her New South Wales beach house when, one night, she believes she is visited by a tiger. The next morning a woman named Frida arrives at the house, stating that she has been sent by the government to help out. Critical reception Lucy Sussex, writing in ''The Sydney Review of Book'', noted: "There is subterfuge, smuggling, in the writing of ''The Night Guest''. It imports 'genre' techniques into the genre 'literary'. To achieve the necessary suspension of disbelief, the tiger displays no magic, does not talk. It is depicted with extreme realism...At the heart of this novel, McFarlane is describing a very sad and inevitable situation, one that even the highest in the land properly fear: to be old and helpless, and potentially someone else’s prey. Yet who is the predator: the imaginary beast or the post-colonial haunter? Here is domestic realism, the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications Literary fiction * Peter Carey – ''A Long Way from Home'' * Felicity Castagna – ''No More Boats'' * J. M. Coetzee – ''The Schooldays of Jesus'' * Michelle de Kretser – '' The Life to Come'' * Robert Drewe – ''Whipbird'' * Richard Flanagan – ''First Person'' * Eva Hornung – ''The Last Garden'' * Sofie Laguna – ''The Choke'' * Alex Miller – '' The Passage of Love'' * Gerald Murnane – '' Border Districts'' * Bram Presser – '' The Book of Dirt'' * Kim Scott – ''Taboo'' * Jock Serong – ''On the Java Ridge'' Short story collections * Melanie Cheng – ''Australia Day'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Judith Clarke – ''My Lovely Frankie'' * Zana Fraillon – ''The Ones That Disappeared'' * Morris Gleitzman – ''Maybe'' * Andy Griffiths ** ''The Tree House Fun Book 2'' ** ''The 91-Storey Treehouse'' * Jessica Townsend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World Without Us (novel)
''The World Without Us'' is a 2015 novel by the Australian author Mireille Juchau. It was the winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction. Synopsis The youngest daughter of the Müller family has died from leukaemia and the remaining members all grieve her loss in their own ways: Evangeline, the mother, becomes disengaged from the rest of the family; Tess the eldest child, has become totally silent; while Meg and her father try to hold the family together. Critical reception Reviewing the novel in ''Australian Book Review'' Susan Lever noted "this novel addresses the grief of several characters who have lost family members, and it offers language and art as partial consolation." In ''The Newtown Review of Books'' Anna Marfording found a continuity of sorts from the author's other works. "In her previous novels, as well as in ''The World Without Us'', Juchau has demonstrated great psychological insight into the inner lives of her characters. One of her prime i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Farm (novel)
''Hope Farm'' is a 2015 novel by Australian author Peggy Frew. The novel follows a 13-year-old girl named Silver who moves to a rural commune, Hope Farm, after her mother Ishtar falls in love with its leader. The novel was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award and the 2016 Stella Prize. Reception ''Hope Farm'' received generally positive reviews. In a review in ''The Guardian'', Meredith Jaffe wrote that the novel effectively portrayed the complexity and pain of the relationship between Silver and her mother. Reviewing the book in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Thuy On praised Frew's ability to explore a wide spectrum of human relationships, from the maternal to the platonic to the sexual. Patrick Allington wrote in a review in ''Australian Book Review ''Australian Book Review'' is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ''ABR'' is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016. Major publications Literary fiction * Melissa Ashley – ''The Birdman's Wife'' * Georgia Blain – '' Between a Wolf and a Dog'' * Hannah Kent – ''The Good People'' * Ryan O'Neill – '' Their Brilliant Careers'' * Heather Rose – '' The Museum of Modern Love'' * Philip Salom – ''Waiting'' * Dominic Smith – ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' * Josephine Wilson – ''Extinctions'' Children's and young adult fiction * Trace Balla – ''Rockhopping'' * Maxine Beneba Clarke – '' The Patchwork Bike'' * Georgia Blain – ''Special'' * Andy Griffiths ** ''The Tree House Fun Book'' ** ''The 78-Storey Treehouse'' * Zana Fraillon – ''The Bone Sparrow'' * Tania McCartney – ''Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings'' * Shivaun Plozza – ''Frankie'' * Richard Roxburgh – ''Artie and the Grime Wave'' * Claire Zorn – ''One Would Think the Deep'' Crime * Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Boys (novel)
''Golden Boys'' (2014) is a novel by Australian author Sonya Hartnett. Themes ''Golden Boys'' is a novel of lost childhood innocence, and the loss of societal patterns of behaviour that allowed young children to roam the streets in the late 70s and early 80s. The novel tells the story of two twelve-year-olds, Colt Jenson and Freya Kiley, who are moving out of childhood as they realise that their families have dark secrets. Reviews Linda Funnell in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' found the novel considers many "sombre themes" but is "saturated in a suburban landscape of decades past, where boys ride bicycles through silent streets, play pinball machines at the local milk bar, and hang out in the mouth of the huge stormwater drain beside a patch of waste ground, untroubled by mobile phones or the internet." Victoria Flanagan in ''Sydney Review of Books'' noted that the author "has a talent for writing about difficult or contentious subjects in innovative and sensitive ways". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This House Of Grief
''This House of Grief'' is a 2014 non-fiction book by Helen Garner. Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its subject matter is the murder conviction of a man accused of driving his car into a dam resulting in the deaths of his three children in rural Victoria, Australia, and the ensuing trials. The book has been critically lauded, with ''The Australian'' declaring it a "literary masterpiece". Background On 4 September 2005 a car driven by Robert Farquharson left the road and crashed into a dam outside Winchelsea, Victoria, resulting in the deaths of his three sons. A year before the incident, Farquharson's wife had left him for another man and taken their children, who he had access to on weekends or special occasions. He was convicted of their murder on 5 October 2007. Farquharson appealed and, on 17 December 2009, the conviction was set aside and a new trial ordered. The retrial commenced on 4 May 2010 before Lex Lasry. The jury retired to consider its verdict on 19 July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only The Animals (short Story Collection)
''Only the Animals'' is a 2014 short story collection by Ceridwen Dovey. It is her second book after ''Blood Kin'' (2008). It is a collection of ten interrelated short stories about the souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and tells their stories of life and death. Notes * Epigraph: "On one side there is luminosity, trust, faith, the beauty of the earth; on the other side, darkness, doubt, unbelief, the cruelty of the earth, the capacity of people to do evil. When I write, the first side is true; when I do not the second is." – Czeslaw Milosz, ''Road-Side Dog'' * Epigraph: Each creature is key to all other creatures, A dog sitting in a patch of sun licking itself, says he, is at one moment a dog and at the next a vessel of revelation." – J. M. Coetzee, ''Elizabeth Costello'' Critical reception Writing in ''The Saturday Paper'' reviewer LS noted: "Two stories into Ceridwen Dovey's ''Only the Animals'', my heart began to sink. I thought t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heat And Light
''Heat and Light'' is a 2014 work of fiction by First Nations Australian author Ellen van Neerven. The book contains three stories: "Heat", "Water", and "Light". It was the winner of the Indigenous Writers Prize at the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. Reception ''Heat and Light'' received generally positive reviews, with reviewers praising the work as an impressive debut from a promising young writer. In '' Queensland Review'', Jessica Gildersleeve wrote that the book contained innovative narrative experiments and that it spoke to themes of marginalisation and loss. In '' Southerly'', Kate Livett wrote that the book blurred the traditional line between novel and short story collection and that it was written with impressive confidence and maturity. A. S. Patrić wrote in ''Australian Book Review ''Australian Book Review'' is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ''ABR'' is an independent no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Soil
Foreign Soil is a collection of short fiction by Maxine Beneba Clarke published in 2014 by Hachette. It won the 2013 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award, the 2015 ABIA for Best Literary Fiction, the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Bailey .... References 2014 short story collections Fiction about refugees and displaced people Hachette (publisher) books {{2010s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strays (novel)
''The Strays'' is a 2014 novel by the Australian author Emily Bitto. It won the 2015 Stella Prize. Synopsis In her old age Art History lecturer Lily recalls her childhood in 1930s Melbourne when she had a friendship with Eva Trentham, daughter of the famous artists Evan and Helena Trentham. Critical reception James Tierney reviewed the novel for the ''Australian Book Review'' and noted that "Bitto has a deep interest in the transformative power of memory, in how life’s chaos is shaped into story." Writing for the ''Text'' journal Ruby Todd called the book "elegant", noting that she has created a "resonant novel". Publishing history After the novel's initial publication in Australia in 2014 by Affirm Press it was reprinted as follows: * Affirm Press, Australia, 2015 * Legend Press, UK, 2016 * Twelve, 2018, USA * Affirm Press, Australia, 2021 Awards * 2013 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |