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1980 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1980. Events *The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, ''The Day Of The Dog''; the award was initially given to Paul Radley, who, in 1996, admitted that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle. * Jessica Anderson won the 1980 Miles Franklin Award for ''The Impersonators'' Major publications Books * Jessica Anderson — ''The Impersonators'' * Murray Bail — ''Homesickness'' * Jon Cleary — '' A Very Private War'' * Shirley Hazzard — ''The Transit of Venus'' * Elizabeth Jolley — ''Palomino'' * Thomas Keneally — ''The Cut-Rate Kingdom'' * Randolph Stow — ''The Girl Green as Elderflower'' Short story collections * Helen Garner – ''Honour & Other People's Children'' Science fiction * Damien Broderick — ''The Dreaming Dragons'' Crime and mystery * Peter Corris — '' The Dying Trade'' * Gabrielle Lord — ''Fortress'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
''The Australian''/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia. The rules of the competition include that the winner's work be published by Allen & Unwin.Goodwin (1986) p. 270 The award was initiated in 1979 by Niels Stevns and is a collaboration between ''The Australian'' newspaper, the publisher Allen & Unwin, and Stevns & Company Pty Ltd. Stevns, founder of the company which makes Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel. Winners *2022 – Nell Pierce, ''A Place Near Eden'' *2021 – Emma Batchelor, ''Now That I See You'' *2020 – K. M. Kruimink, ''A Treacherous Country'' * 2019 – No prize awarded * 2018 – Emily O'Grady, ''The Yellow House'' * 2017 – Marija Peričić, ''The Lost Pages'' * 2016 – Katherine Brabon, ''The Memory Artist'' *2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honour & Other People's Children
''Honour & Other People's Children'' is a collection of two short stories–also described as novellas –by Australian writer Helen Garner. It was first published by McPhee Gribble in 1980. Garner's second published book, it was written while she lived in Paris, France. Australian literary critic Peter Craven described Garner's second published work as "less vigorous perhaps than Monkey Grip, but showing greater artistry." "Honour" ''Honour'' is about the relationship between two people, separated but still legally married and with a child of the marriage, their ongoing friendship, and the changes to relationship when the former husband re-partners. "Other People's Children" ''Other People's Children'' is about the disruption and end of relationship between two women, Scotty and Ruth, who live in a collective household. Scotty loves Ruth's daughter "as only the childless can love other people's children". Into Scotty's life comes Madigan, "a great lump of a fellow with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson (born 6 September 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her 1980 book ''Tracks'', about her 2,700 km (1,700 miles) trek across the deserts of Western Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned 40 years. Biography Robyn Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls. When Robyn was 11 years old, her mother committed suicide, and she was largely raised by her unmarried aunt (her father's sister), Gillian. She went to a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. She received a music scholarship but did not take it up. In Brisbane, Robyn shared a house with biologists and studied zoology. In 1968, aged 18, she went to Sydney and later lived a bohemian life in a Sydney Push household at Paddington, while working as a card-dealer at an illegal gambling house. In 1975, Robyn moved to Alice Springs in an effort to work with camels for a desert trek she was planning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding director of the Australian Centre and, more recently, chair of the peak artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Salom
Philip Salom (born 8 August 1950) is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 14 collections of poetry and four novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences from title to title. His poetry has won awards in Australia and the UK. His novel ''Waiting'' was shortlisted for Australia's prestigious 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and the 2016 Victorian Premier's Award for Literature. His well-reviewed novel ''The Returns'' (2019) was a finalist in the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. During the late 2020 pandemic, he published ''The Fifth Season''. In 2021 Salom was recognised with the Outstanding Achievement Award of the 4th Boao International Poetry Award. Biography Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia, Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Rodriguez
Judith Catherine Rodriguez (13 February 1936 — 22 November 2018) was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Life Rodriguez was born Judith Catherine Green in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, and graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts. She then travelled to England, where she received a Master of Arts from Cambridge University. Following this she took up a tutorship at Kingston University, Jamaica, where she met her first husband, Colombian academic Fabio Rodriguez. She published numerous volumes of poetry, some illustrated by her own woodcuts, edited an anthology and the collected poems of Jennifer Rankin. From 1979 to 1982, she was poetry editor of the literary journal ''Meanjin'', and from 1988 to 1997 she was a poetry editor with the publisher Penguin Australia. The play ''Poor Johanna'', co-written with Robyn Archer, was produced in 1994 and her libretto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing Beatie Bow
''Playing Beatie Bow'' is a popular Australian children's novel, written by Ruth Park and first published on 31 January 1980. It features a time slip in Sydney, Australia. Plot summary Lynette Kirk has been a happy child, cheery about her parents and life, until the day her father leaves her and her mother Kathy for another woman. Lynette wants to distance herself from the life they have shared with her father and changes her name to Abigail. Abigail goes down to the park with her young next-door neighbours, Natalie and Vincent. She finds the children there playing a game called "Beatie Bow". After becoming very interested in a "Little Furry Girl" who stands there watching them play, Abigail decides to follow her. When Abigail's mother admits that she has been seeing her father again and would like them all to move to Norway, where he works as an architect, Abigail is furious and goes for a walk to cool off, again encountering the mysterious girl. She follows her back into the ... [...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] |
The Voyage Of The Poppykettle
''The Voyage of the Poppykettle'' (later re-published as ''Voyage of Poppykettle'') is a 1980 children's book about a group of "hairy Peruvians" setting out from Peru to discover Australia. It was written and illustrated by Robert Ingpen,Karen Coats (2005). Review: Ingpen, Robert ''The Voyage of the Poppykettle''; written and illus. by Robert Ingpen. ''Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books'' 59 (1): 21–22 who also wrote the sequel, '' The Unchosen Land'', and is considered amongst his best-known works. The story of the Poppykettle was later updated with new material by Michael Lawrence and republished as '' The Poppykettle Papers'' in 1999. The story contains reference to the Geelong Keys. Background In 1975, Robert Ingpen developed the story based on his work with the United Nations in Peru. As part of that work, he was researching ancient Inca fishing stories, and two elements of that research formed the kernel of the Poppykettle idea: Inca dolls and pottery; and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ingpen
Robert Roger Ingpen Order of Australia, AM, Royal Society of Arts, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australians, Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. Early life Ingpen was born in Geelong, Victoria, and attended The Geelong College#Notable alumni, Geelong College to 1957. He graduated with a Diploma of Graphic Art from List of RMIT University people, RMIT in 1958, where he studied with Harold Freedman. Career In 1958, Ingpen was appointed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as an artist to interpret and communicate the results of scientific research. From 1968 Ingpen worked as a freelance designer, illustrator and author. He was also a member of a United Nations team in Mexico and Peru until 1975, where he designed pamphlets on fisheries and was involved in "a number of Australian cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Thorpe Clark
Mavis Thorpe Clark AM (26 June 1909 – 8 July 1999) was an Australian novelist and writer for children who was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Clark was educated at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne and published her first work in the school's magazine. She then published prolifically throughout her writing career, writing mainly for children and young adults, but also writing biographies, short stories, newspaper serials and non-fiction. In 1932, Clark married Harold Latham and in 1936 the first of their two daughters, Beverley Jeanne, was born. A second daughter, Ronda Faye, followed in 1944. She was nominated for a number of awards and was awarded the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for her work ''The Min-Min'' in 1967. In 1996 she was made AM for service to the arts as the author of children's literature and as an active member of writers' organizations in Australia. She died in 1999. Bibliography Children's and Young Adult fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.Pressley, Alison (2007) "Lord and lady" in ''Good Reading Magazine'', April 2007, pp. 22–23 She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers. Life Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney. She was educated at Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart and the University of New England, Australia, University of New England in Armidale, where she obtained an Honours degree in Victorian Literature. She worked as a teacher and as a public servant with the Commonwealth Employment Service. In 1978, with the support of a New Writer's Fellowship, she took a year off work to write full-time. The novel she wrote during the bulk of that time, ''A Death in the Family'', received a bad reader's report, so Lord put it aside and in the remaining three weeks of her year off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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