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1943 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1943. Books * Max Harris – ''The Vegetative Eye'' * Michael Innes – '' The Weight of the Evidence'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Grand Parade'' * Philip Lindsay – ''The Devil and King John'' * Kylie Tennant ** ''Ride on Stranger'' ** ''Time Enough Later'' Children's * May Gibbs – ''Mr. & Mrs. Bear and Friends'' * P. L. Travers – ''Mary Poppins Opens the Door'' Short stories * Marjorie Barnard – ''The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories'' * James Hackston – "Father Clears Out" * Myra Morris – "Going Home" * Dal Stivens – "The Perch" Poetry * David Campbell ** "Men in Green" ** "Soldier's Song" ** "The Stockman" * Norma Davis — "Awakening" * Rosemary Dobson – "Child with a Cockatoo" * A. D. Hope – "Observation Car" * Rex Ingamells – ''New Song in an Old Land'' (edited) * Will Lawson – ''Bush Verses'' * Kenneth Slessor – "A Bushranger" * Dougl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Harris (poet)
Maxwell Henley Harris AO (13 April 1921 – 13 January 1995), generally known as Max Harris, was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller. Early life Harris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised in the city of Mount Gambier, where his father was based as a travelling salesman. His early poetry was published in the children's pages of '' The Sunday Mail''. He continued to write poetry through his secondary schooling after winning a scholarship to St Peter's College, Adelaide. By the time he began attending the University of Adelaide, he was already known as a poet and intellectual. In 1941, he edited two editions of the student newspaper ''On Dit''. Angry Penguins Harris's passion for poetry and modernism were driving forces behind the creation in 1940 of a literary journal called ''Angry Penguins''. His co-founders were D.B. "Sam" Kerr, Paul G. Pfeiffer and Geoffrey Dutton. The first issue attracted the interest of Melbourne law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him. Early life Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in Orange, New South Wales. As a boy, he lived in England for a time with his parents and in Australia visited the mines of rural New South Wales with his father, a Jewish mining engineer whose father and grandfather had been distinguished musicians in Germany. His family moved to Sydney in 1903. Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. His first published poem, "Goin'", about a wounded digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons, appeared in '' The Bulletin'' in 1917. Slessor passed the 1918 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Sykes
Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes (16 August 194314 November 2010) was an Australian poet and author. She was a lifelong campaigner for Indigenous land rights, as well as human rights and women's rights. Early life and education Born Roberta Barkley Patterson in Townsville, Queensland, sometime in the 1940s, Sykes was raised by her white mother, Rachel Patterson, and never knew her father. Sykes says in her autobiography that his identity is unknown, and her mother told her a number of different accounts about her father; variously that he was Fijian, Papuan, African-American, and Native American. The most consistent and plausible version was that he was African-American soldier stationed in Australia during World War Two. Although she fought hard for Australian Aboriginal rights, she herself was not of Australian Aboriginal descent. She was sometimes criticised for not correcting the record when others assumed she was Aboriginal. Early activism Sykes was expelled from St Patricks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Altman
Dennis Patkin Altman (born 16 August 1943) is an Australian academic and gay rights activist. Early childhood Altman was born in Sydney, New South Wales to Jewish immigrant parents, and spent most of his childhood in Hobart, Tasmania. Education In 1964 he won a Fulbright scholarship to Cornell University, where he began working with American gay activists. Professions and awards Returning to Australia in 1969, he taught politics at the University of Sydney. Later in 1985, Altman moved to La Trobe University, where he later became a professor of politics. He was appointed the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University in January 2005. Since 2009 Altman has been the director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University. Altman supports organizations that are dedicated to creating a better life for homosexuals, serving on the Australian National Council on AIDS and other international organizations including the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Hill (Australian Writer)
Barry Hill is an Australian historian, writer, and academic. He has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and libretti. He is known for his biography of anthropologist Ted Strehlow, called ''Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession'', published in 2002. Early life and education Hill was born in Melbourne. He studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining his Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Education (BEd) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and from there went to London, where he gained his Master of Arts (MA) degree from the University of London. Writing career Hill has worked in both Melbourne and London. In London he worked for the ''Times Literary Supplement''. In 1975 Hill became a full-time writer. he was poetry editor of ''The Australian'' newspaper. Stage Hill was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play '' Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts'', presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022. Major publications Literary fiction * Robbie Arnott, ''Limberlost'' * Jessica Au, ''Cold Enough for Snow'' * Jane Caro, ''The Mother'' * Steven Carroll, ''Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight'' * Shankari Chandran, ''Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'' (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award) * Robert Drewe, ''Nimblefoot'' * Katerina Gibson, ''Women I Know'' (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) * Robert Lukins, ''Loveland'' * Fiona Kelly McGregor, ''Iris'' * Edwina Preston, ''Bad Art Mother'' * Craig Sherborne, ''The Grass Hotel'' * Steve Toltz, ''Here Goes Nothing'' Short story collections * Mirandi Riwoe, ''The Burnished Sun'' Non-Fiction * Alison Bashford, ''An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture'' * Debra Dank, ''We Come With This Place'' * Jo Dyer, ''Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics'' * Madonna King, ''L Platers:How to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adamson (poet)
Robert Adamson (17 May 1943 – 16 December 2022) was an Australian poet and publisher. Biography Born in Sydney, Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in gaol in his 20s. His first book, ''Canticles on the Skin'', was published in 1970. He acknowledges the influence of, among others, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Robert Duncan, and Hart Crane upon his writing. In the 1970s and 1980s, he edited ''New Poetry'' magazine and established Paper Bark Press in 1986 with his partner, photographer Juno Gemes, and writer Michael Wilding, which published Australian poetry. Wilding left the company in 1990, and Gemes and Adamson continued to run the company until 2002. In 2011 he won the Patrick White Award and the Blake Poetry Prize. Adamson was appointed the inaugural CAL chair of poetry at UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) in 2012. Adamson died on 16 December 2022, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for ''Oscar and Lucinda'', and won for the second time in 2001 with ''True History of the Kelly Gang''. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film ''Until the End of the World'' with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Early life and career: 1943–1970 Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents ran a General Motors dealership, Carey Motors. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jennings (Australian Author)
Paul Jennings AM (born 1943), is an English-born Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist. Many of his stories were adapted for the cult classic children's television series ''Round the Twist''. Jennings collaborated with Morris Gleitzman on the book series ''Wicked!'', which was adapted into an animated TV series in 2000. Early life and education Paul Jennings was born on 30 April 1943 in Heston, Middlesex (now part of Hounslow in London). In 1949 his family emigrated to Australia. He first attended Bentleigh West Primary School in Bentleigh, a suburb of Melbourne, and then Caulfield Grammar School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Education Studies from Frankston Teachers College at Monash University in 1978 and taught at Frankston State School, Kangaroo Flat State School, the Turana Youth Training Centre and the Royal Children's Hospital State School in Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Women & Children'' * Trent Dalton – ''Lola in the Mirror'' * Gregory Day – ''The Bell of the World'' * Kate Grenville – ''Restless Dolly Maunder'' * John Kinsella – ''Cellnight: A verse novel'' * Melissa Lucashenko – ''Edenglassie'' * Kate Morton – ''Homecoming'' * Mirandi Riwoe – ''Sunbirds'' * Tracy Sorensen – ''The Vitals'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''The In-Between'' * Pip Williams – '' The Bookbinder of Jericho'' * Charlotte Wood – ''Stone Yard Devotional'' * Alexis Wright – '' Praiseworthy'' Short story collections * Graeme Simsion – ''Creative Differences: And Other Stories'' * Laura Jean McKay – ''Gunflower'' Non-Fiction * Chanel Contos – ''Consent Laid Bare'' * Robyn Davidson – ''Unfinished Woman'' * Marele Day – ''Reckless'' * Martin Flanagan – ''The Empty Honour Board'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter (born 29 April 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program ''Books and Writing''; and founding in 1997 the internet quarterly literary magazine ''Jacket'' which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania. The Australia Council awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990; some Australian poets "acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist".Wilde et al. (1994) Life Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales and attended country schools, then took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making more than twenty reading tours to venues in the U.S., Britain and Europe since the mid-1980s. He has lived in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia, and overseas in London, Cambridge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. Biography Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia, Perth. He grew up on the West Australian coast and was educated at Hale School. He joined ''The West Australian'' as a cadet reporter. Three years later he was recruited by ''The Age'', where he became Sydney chief at the age of 21, later Literary Editor of ''The Australian''.Murray WaldrenRob Drewe: The Diviner(1996) Interview first published in ''The Australian Magazine''. Accessed: 11 October 2007 He was a columnist, features editor and special writer on ''The Australian'' and ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin''. Drewe won two Walkley Awards for journalism while working for ''The Bulletin''. He was awarded a Leader Grant travel scholarship by the United States Government. During the 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
