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1918 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1918. Events * 18 January – The first edition of ''Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine'' appears. Books * J. H. M. Abbott — ''Sally : The Tale of a Currency Lass'' * Mary Grant Bruce — ''Dick'' * May Gibbs ** ''Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: Their Adventures Wonderful'' ** ''Wattle Babies'' * G. B. Lancaster — ''The Savignys'' * Norman Lindsay — ''The Magic Pudding'' * Steele Rudd — ''Memoirs of Corporal Keeley'' * Ethel Nhill Victoria Stonehouse, Lindsay Russell — ''Earthware'' * Ethel Turner — ''St. Tom and the Dragon'' Poetry * Christopher Brennan — ''A Chant of Doom and Other Verses'' * Zora Cross ** ''The City of Riddle-Me-Ree'' ** ''The Lilt of Life'' * C. J. Dennis ** "wikisource: The Battle of the Wazzir, The Battle of the Wazzir" ** ''Digger Smith'' * Mary Gilmore – ''The Passionate Heart'' * Henry Lawson — ''Selected Poems of Henry L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Soldiers' Magazine
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John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. Early life Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844. John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pionee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
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Nan Hunt
Nan Hunt (1918–2015) was an Australian children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray. She was a two-time winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. Life and career Nancy Louise Ray was born on 16 September 1918 and grew up in Bathurst, New South Wales. Educated at Bathurst High School, she contributed stories to her school newspaper and also to ''The Sun''. From 1935 to 1943 she did office work in a Bathurst department store. In 1943 she enlisted in the WAAF and served in Melbourne in clerical roles until 1946, when she moved to Sydney, where she worked as a secretary until her marriage to Walter Gibbs Hunt in 1968. She contributed to the NSW ''School Magazine'' from 1963 and was encouraged by its editor, Patricia Wrightson, to write a novel, the first of many. Hunt won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literature Awards twice, firstly in 1982 for ''Whistle Up the Chimney'', illustrated by Craig Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Australian Literature
This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Ghost River'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''The Secret Chord'' * Stephen Daisley – ''Coming Rain'' * Gregory Day – ''Archipelago of Souls'' * Peggy Frew – ''Hope Farm'' * Susan Johnson – ''The Landing'' * Gail Jones – ''A Guide to Berlin'' * Myfanwy Jones – ''Leap'' * Mireille Juchau – ''The World Without Us'' * Malcolm Knox – ''The Wonder Lover'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''A Short History of Richard Kline'' * A. S. Patrić – '' Black Rock White City'' * Steve Toltz – ''Quicksand'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Salt Creek'' * Charlotte Wood – '' The Natural Way of Things'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Nick Earls – ''New Boy'' * Mem Fox – '' This & That'' * Mem Fox – '' Nellie Belle'' * Andy Griffiths – ''The 65-Storey Treehouse'' * Maureen McCarthy – ''Stay With Me'' * Sophie Masson – ''Hunter's Moon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Aldridge
Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children. Life and career Aldridge was born in White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria. By the mid-1920s the Aldridge family had moved to Swan Hill, and many of his Australian stories are based on his life growing up there. He studied at the London School of Economics. He returned to Australia and worked for ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' in Melbourne from 1935 to 1938. In 1938 Aldridge moved to London, which remained his base until his death in 2015. During the Second World War, Aldridge served in the Middle-East as a war correspondent, reporting on the Axis invasions of Greece and Crete. Based on his experiences, he wrote his first novel ''Signed with Their Honour'' and the book was publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001. Major publications Literary fiction * Geraldine Brooks – '' Year of Wonders'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * Bryce Courtenay – '' Four Fires'' * Robert Dessaix – ''Corfu: A Novel'' * Garry Disher – ''Past the Headlands'' * Richard Flanagan – '' Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish'' * Stephen Gray – ''The Artist is a Thief'' * Marion Halligan – ''The Fog Garden'' * Elizabeth Jolley – ''An Innocent Gentleman'' * Kathy Lette – ''Nip 'n' Tuck'' * Joan London – '' Gilgamesh'' * Tim Winton – '' Dirt Music'' * Arnold Zable – ''Cafe Scheherazade'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Graeme Base – ''The Waterhole'' * Garry Disher – ''Moondyne Kate'' * Sonya Hartnett – '' Forest'' * Odo Hirsch – ''Have Courage, Hazel Green!'' * Leigh Hobbs – ''Horrible Harriet'' * Maureen McCarthy – ''Flash Jack'' * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Witting
Amy Witting (26 January 1918 – 18 September 2001) was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser. She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past". Craven, Peter (2001) "Tell that woman I'll publish any word she writes", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 25 September 2001, p. 35 Life Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was brought up as a Catholic. She has "melancholy memories of a repressive family life" and remembered the nuns at her school, St Brendan's College, as being "obsessed with the torments of hell". Jefferis, Barbara (2001) "Late bloomer, shining light: Amy Witting, Writer, 1918–2001", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 25 September 2001, p. 35 She suffered from tuberculosis as a child.Connolly, Margaret (2001) "Her secret to success? Smoking and drinking", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2001, p. 35 She went to Fort St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1966. Major publications Books * James Aldridge ** ''My Brother Tom'' ** ''The Statesman's Games'' * Jon Cleary ** '' The High Commissioner'' ** ''The Pulse of Danger'' * Peter Cowan – ''Seed'' * Elizabeth Harrower – ''The Watch Tower'' * Shirley Hazzard – ''The Evening of the Holiday'' * Morris Lurie – ''Rappaport'' * Peter Mathers – ''Trap'' * Christina Stead – ''Dark Places of the Heart'' * Arthur Upfield – ''The Lake Frome Monster'' * Judah Waten – ''Season of Youth'' * Patrick White – ''The Solid Mandala'' Short stories * James Hackston – ''Father Clears Out'' * Elizabeth Harrower – "The Beautiful Climate" * D'Arcy Niland – ''Pairs and Loners'' * Patrick White – "The Full Belly" * Judith Wright – ''The Nature of Love'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Mavis Thorpe Clark – ''The Min-Min'' * Max Fatchen – ''The River K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Lambert (author)
Eric Frank Lambert (19 January 1918 – 16 April 1966) was an Australian author and a sometime member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Born in London in 1918, Eric Lambert emigrated to Australia at the age of 2 with his parents – they settled in Manly, Sydney. He left school at the age of 17 and worked in a garage having been denied the grammar school and university education he hankered after. In 1940 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He saw action in the Middle East with the 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion (January 1941 – October 1942) and the 2/15th Battalion (to January 1943). From August 1943 he was in Papua New Guinea with the 2/15th, returning home in March 1944. While in Singapore (September – October 1945) assisting the repatriation of prisoners of war from Changi, he was promoted to Sergeant. He was discharged in Melbourne on 7 December 1945. Determined to work for the cause of peace, soon meeting and joining forces with Frank Hardy, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McKee Wright
David McKee Wright (6 August 1869 – 5 February 1928) was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia. Early life Wright was born at Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, the second son of Rev. William Wright, D.D. (1837-1899), a Congregational missionary working in Damascus, scholar and author, and his wife Ann (d.1877), ''née'' McKee, daughter of the Rev. David McKee, an educationist and author. Michael Sharkey,Wright, David McKee (1869 - 1928), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp 584-585. Retrieved 25 March 2010 David Wright was born while his parents were home on furlough and was left with a grandmother (Rebecca McKee) until he was seven years old. Wright was educated at the local Glascar School and then from 1876 in England at Mr Pope's School and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, London. New Zealand Wright migrated to New Zealand in 1887 and spent several years as a rabbiter on stations in Central Otag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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