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Vortex (Hall Novel)
''Vortex'' is a 2024 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall originally published by Picador A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bull .... It was the winner of the 2025 The Age Book of the Year Award – Fiction. Synopsis The novel follows a cast of characters in Brisbane as the city prepares for the vist of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. It is also the coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Compton Gillespie who meets an older German immigrant, Beckmann, who becomes his mentor in life. Critical reception James Ley, writing in ''Australian Book Review'' noted that this book is "a substantial addition to Hall's already substantial body of work. It is a novel that draws its full measure of vitality from its concerted attempt to recreate a particular time and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Hall (writer)
Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland (1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of ''The Australian''. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published fourteen novels, including ''Just Relations'' and ''The Island in the Mind''. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the Australia Council. Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the Miles Franklin Award, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990. Hall's me ... [...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] |
The Age Book Of The Year Awards
''The Age'' Book of the Year Awards were annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. After 1998, they were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Melbourne, a UNESCO City of Literature. The Festival runs during early September each year. Melbourne Writers Festival is part of the Word Alliance, a .... Initially, two awards were given, one for fiction (or imaginative writing), the other for non-fiction work, but in 1993, a poetry award in honour of Dinny O'Hearn was added.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' edited by Wilde et al. (1994) p. 23 The criteria were that the works be "of outstanding literary merit and express Australian identity or character," and be published in the year before the award was made. One of the award-winners was chosen as ''The Age'' Book of the Year. The awards were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024. Events * Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival * Major Australian online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration as it explores options for "sale and/or recapitalisation." Major publications Literary fiction * Jumaana Abdu – ''Translations'' * Robbie Arnott – ''Dusk'' * Amy Brown – ''My Brilliant Sister'' * Shankari Chandran – ''Safe Haven'' * Melanie Cheng – '' The Burrow'' * Charmian Clift – ''The End of the Morning'' * Michelle de Kretser – ''Theory & Practice'' * David Dyer – ''This Kingdom of Dust'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''Wing'' * Rodney Hall – ''Vortex'' * Dylin Hardcastle – ''A Language of Limbs'' * Anita Heiss – ''Dirrayawadha'' * Kirsty Iltners – ''Depth of Field'' * Gail Jones – ''One Another'' * Lauren Keegan – ''All the Bees in the Hollows'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |