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The White Girl (novel)
''The White Girl'' is a 2019 novel by the Australian author Tony Birch originally published by Picador. It was the winner of the 2020 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Indigenous Writer's Prize. Synopsis In the 1960s, in the fictional Australian country town of Deane, Aboriginal Odette Brown cares for her granddaughter Sissy, conceived after her daughter was raped by a local white pastoralist, Joe Kane. Lily, Odette's daughter and Sissy's mother, has fled Deane for the big city. With Lily away Odette must also try to stop the new local policeman Sergeant Lowe from taking Sissy (the "white girl" of the title) from her care. Critical reception Reviewing the novel for ''The Australian Book Review'' Sandra R. Phillips concluded: "Tony Birch has stated that this work took him eight weeks to write. All credit to him for bringing a lifetime of knowledge about Australian history, social policy, and cultural identity to this book, a deceptively simple story about family lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Birch
Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015. In 2017, he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. His 2019 novel ''The White Girl'' won the 2020 Indigenous Writers' Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Background, early life and education Birch's maternal great-grandfather was an Afghan who migrated to Australia in 1890, who had to get exemption from the ''Immigration Restriction Act 1901'' to take his wife home to meet the family. He also has Barbadian convict (James "Prince" Moodie, transported to Tasmania for 14 years for "disobedience") and Aboriginal heritage. Birch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in 1948 as a traditional university press, UQP now publishes books for general readers across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and young adult. History The University of Queensland Press was founded in 1948 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland. Established as a publisher of scholarly works, UQP made its transition into trade publishing in the late-1960s, largely through poetry and the ''Paperback Poets'' series. Considered revolutionary at the time, ''Paperback Poets'' was a series of poetry editions established after the poet and novelist David Malouf expressed a desire to produce a new poetry format that was affordable and had mass appeal. Alongside Malouf's debut collection '' Bicycle and Other Poems'', the ''Paperback Poets'' series published volumes by writers such as Rodney Hall and Michael Dransfield. In 1990, UQP was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picador (imprint)
Picador is an imprint (trade name), imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishers (United States), Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 by publisher Sonny Mehta as a literary imprint of Pan Books with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback editions only. In 1990, Picador started publishing its own hardcovers. Picador in the UK continues to publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from around the world, including works by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes Award-winner Kae Tempest, and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart (writer), Douglas Stuart. Picador has also published commercial bestsellers such as Jessie Burton's ''The Miniaturist'' and Adam Kay (writer), Adam Kay's ''This is Going to Hurt'' . In the summer of 2018, the US branch of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the Will (law), will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic ''My Brilliant Career'' (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued at Australian dollar, A$60,000. __TOC__ Winners 1957–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020– Controversies Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel ''Grand Days'' because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian. 1995 winner Helen Dale, Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for ''The Hand That Signed the Paper'' and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – '' The White Girl'' * David Brooks – ''The Grass Library'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Year of the Beast'' * Melanie Cheng – ''Room for a Stranger'' * Peggy Frew – ''Islands'' * Peter Goldsworthy – ''Minotaur'' * John Hughes – ''No One'' * Anna Krien – ''Act of Grace'' * Melina Marchetta – ''The Place on Dalhousie'' * Andrew McGahan – ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) * Gerald Murnane – ''A Season on Earth'' * Favel Parrett – '' There Was Still Love'' * Heather Rose – ''Bruny'' * Philip Salom – ''The Returns'' * Carrie Tiffany – ''Exploded View'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Wolfe Island'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''Damascus'' * Tara June Winch – '' The Yield'' * Charlotte Wood – '' The Weekend'' Short stories * Debra Adelaide – ''Zebra: And Other Stories'' * Yumna Kassab – ''The House of Youssef'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |