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1917 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1917. Books * Randolph Bedford – ''The Silver Star'' * Capel Boake – ''Painted Clay'' * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Possum'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Fool Divine'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' Australia Felix'' * Ethel Turner – ''Captain Cub'' Short stories * Vance Palmer – "Tobacco" * A. B. Paterson – '' Three Elephant Power and Other Stories'' Poetry * Zora Cross – ''Songs of Love and Life'' * C. J. Dennis ** ''Doreen'' ** '' The Glugs of Gosh'' * Leon Gellert – '' Songs of a Campaign'' * Mary Gilmore ** "The Kiss" ** "The Mother" * Henry Lawson – "Scots of the Riverina" * Furnley Maurice – "1916" * A. B. Paterson – ''Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses'' Births A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1917 of Australian literary figures, authors o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Bedford
Randolph Bedford (born George Randolph Bedford 27 June 1868 – 7 July 1941) was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician. Early life Bedford was born in Camperdown, Sydney, the son of Alfred Bedford, who migrated from Yorkshire, England in 1859 and obtained work as a house painter. He was educated at the Newtown state school. At the age of 14, he worked with a Sydney solicitors firm as an office-boy. At 16 years of age he worked in the western district of New South Wales, shooting rabbits. He carried copies of Carlyle's ''French Revolution'', Shakespeare and the Bible. He worked for a year as a clerk in Hay and joined up with a repertory company run by Edmund Duggan, in Wagga Wagga. Literary career Bedford had a short story accepted by '' The Bulletin'' in 1886, the first of many contributions. In 1888 he worked for a time on the ''Argus'' (Broken Hill, NSW), and in 1889 on ''The Age'', Melbourne for about two years. Freelancing foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Cato
Nancy Fotheringham Cato (11 March 19173 July 2000) was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issues. Life Cato was born in Glen Osmond in South Australia, and was a fifth-generation Australian. She studied English literature and Italian at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1939, then completed a two-year course at the South Australian School of Arts. She was a cadet journalist on '' The News'' from 1935 to 1941, and an art critic from 1957 to 1958. Cato married Eldred De Bracton Norman, and travelled extensively overseas with him. They had one daughter and two sons. Cato died at Noosa Heads on 3 July 2000. Cato's cousin was also named Nancy Cato, and was host of children's TV show the ''Magic Circle Club'' in the mid-1960s. Literary career With Roland Robinson and Kevin Collopy, in 1948 Cato was one of the founding me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, '' Careful, He Might Hear You''. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. World War II Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942, but instead of being posted overseas, he worked as a clerk in Australia. He used these experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, '' Rusty Bugles''. The play toured extensively throughout Australia and achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the Chief Secretary's Office. However, ''Rusty Bugles place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1976. Events * Major publications Books * Robert Drewe – ''The Savage Crows'' * David Ireland (author), David Ireland – ''The Glass Canoe'' * Thomas Keneally – ''Season in Purgatory'' * Frank Moorhouse – ''Conference-Ville'' * Gerald Murnane – ''A Lifetime on Clouds'' * Christina Stead – ''Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)'' * Morris West – ''The Navigator (West novel), The Navigator'' * Patrick White – ''A Fringe of Leaves'' Short stories * Elizabeth Jolley – ''Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories'' * Dal Stivens – ''The Unicorn and Other Tales'' Science Fiction and Fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler – ''The Way Back'' * Lee Harding (writer), Lee Harding ** ''The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction'' (edited) ** ''Beyond Tomorrow'' (edited) ** ''Future Sanctuary'' * David Lake (writer), David Lake – ''Walkers on the Sky'' Children's and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McAuley
James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, Australian literature, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax. Life and career McAuley was born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University, where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy (which he studied under John Anderson (philosopher), John Anderson. In 1937 he edited ''Hermes (publication), Hermes'', the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which many of his early poems, beginning in 1935, were published until 1941. He began his life as an Anglicanism, Anglican and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Dulwich Hill, in Sydney. He lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010. Events *26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List. *February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that '' Cloudstreet'' by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel. *22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel '' Truth'' ''ABC News'', 22 June 2010. becoming the first crime novel to do so. Major publications Literary fiction * Jon Bauer – ''Rocks in the Belly'' * Carmel Bird – ''Child of the Twil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Park
Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels ''The Harp in the South'' (1948) and ''Playing Beatie Bow'' (1980), and the children's radio serial ''The Muddle-Headed Wombat'' (1951–1970), which also spawned a book series (1962–1982). Personal history Park was born in Auckland to a Scottish father and a Swedish mother. Her family later moved to the town of Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas. During the Great Depression her working-class father laboured on bush roads and bridges, worked as a driver, did government relief work and became a sawmill hand. Finally, he shifted back to Auckland, where he joined the workforce of a municipal council. The family occupied public housing, known in New Zealand as a state house, and money remained a scarce commodity. Ruth Park, after attending a Catholic primary school, won a partial s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1979. Events * David Ireland won the 1979 Miles Franklin Award for ''A Woman of the Future'' Major publications Books * Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette – ''Puberty Blues'' * David Ireland – ''A Woman of the Future'' * Thomas Keneally – '' Confederates'' * Roger McDonald – '' 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli'' * Randolph Stow – ''The Visitants'' * Patrick White – ''The Twyborn Affair'' Short stories * Elizabeth Jolley – ''The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories'' Science Fiction and Fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler – ''Matilda's Stepchildren'' * Anne Spencer Parry – ''The Crown of Darkness'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Mavis Thorpe Clark – ''The Lilly-Pilly'' * Joan Phipson: ** ''No Escape'' ** ''Mr Pringle and the Prince'' Poetry * Robert Adamson – ''Where I Come From'' * Rosemary Dobson and David Campbell – ''Seven Russian Poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Palmer (publisher)
Helen Gwynneth Palmer (9 May 1917 – 6 March 1979) was a prominent Australian socialist publisher after the Khrushchev Secret Speech of 1956 and the USSR's invasion of Hungary of the same year, which caused many leftists to leave the Communist Party of Australia. She was responsible for the financial and editorial publication of ''Outlook'', a non-dogmatic magazine of Australian socialism. Palmer's significance is her cultivation of an inclusive and tolerant left intellectual network in Sydney and Australia more broadly, which contributed strongly to the emergence of the Australian new left of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Palmer was additionally an author, educator, servicewoman, trade unionist and communist activist. Contributors to ''Outlook'' included the writer Stephen Murray-Smith and the historian Ian Turner, who wrote an article, "The Long Goodbye" for the final issue. "How to review over 13 years, 82 issues, of ''Outlook''?" his article began. "For 13 years, ''Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2004. Events *John Hay, Peter Porter, Elizabeth Webby, W. H. Wilde, and Barbara Ker Wilson are all recognised in the 2004 Australia Day Honours. *Peter Craven is sacked as editor of ''Quarterly Essay'' and the annual ''The Best Australian...'' anthologies after a dispute with Black Inc. publisher Morry Schwartz. *Kenneth Dutton, Nick Enright, Morag Fraser, David Myers, and Brenda Niall are recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours list. *Independent book publishers Text (Australia) and Canongate (UK) form a joint venture. The Text Media Group, purchased by John Fairfax earlier this year, sells Text Publishing to the joint venture partners. *''Sydney Morning Herald'' Literary Editor, Malcolm Knox exposes Norma Khouri and her 'factual' account of honour killings in Jordan as a fabrication. *Mark Rubbo, David Marr and Kerryn Goldsworthy resign as Miles Franklin Award judges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Jefferis
Barbara Jefferis AM (25 March 1917 – 3 January 2004) was an Australian author. Early life, and character formation Barbara Jefferis was the daughter of (Arthur) Tarlton Jefferis (1884–1965) and Lucy Barbara Ingoldsby Jefferis, ''née'' Smythe (1888–1917). Her father was one of Australia's leading analytical chemists, who was in England working as an adviser to the munitions industry during World War I when Barbara was born. When Jefferis was about 6 months old her mother died. Due to the war, her father remained in England and Jefferis was taken into the care of her aged maternal grandfather, who was a widower. He died when Jefferis was three years old, and she then lived with her paternal grandmother and was absorbed into that woman's extensive group of grandchildren. Jefferis later said, "Even as a child, I was determined to be a writer, although I hadn't a very clear idea what that meant. When I was very small I had a slightly younger cousin who always wanted to hear st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1994. Events * Rodney Hall (writer) won the Miles Franklin Award for '' The Grisly Wife'' Major publications Novels * Thea Astley — ''Coda'' * Lily Brett — ''Just Like That'' * Peter Carey — ''The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith'' * Richard Flanagan — '' Death of a River Guide'' * Drusilla Modjeska — ''The Orchard'' * John A. Scott — ''What I Have Written'' * Tim Winton — ''The Riders'' Short stories * Marian Eldridge — ''The Wild Sweet Flowers'' * Lucy Sussex – ''The Lottery : Nine Science Fiction Stories'' (edited) Science fiction and fantasy * Greg Egan — '' Permutation City'' * Sean McMullen – ''Voices in the Light'' * George Turner – ''Genetic Soldier'' Crime and mystery * Jon Cleary – ''Autumn Maze'' * Peter Corris ** ''Casino'' ** ''Get Even'' ** ''The Time Trap'' * Marele Day – ''The Disappearances of Madalena Grimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |