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1998 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1998. Events * Peter Carey (novelist) won the Miles Franklin Award for '' Jack Maggs'' Major publications Novels * Murray Bail, ''Eucalyptus'' * Bryce Courtenay, '' Jessica'' * Luke Davies, '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' * Marion Halligan, ''The Golden Dress'' * Roger McDonald, ''Mr Darwin's Shooter'' * Les Murray (poet), '' Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse'' * Elliot Perlman, ''Three Dollars'' Children's and young adult fiction * Kim Caraher, ''The Cockroach Cup'' * Alison Goodman, '' Singing the Dogstar Blues'' * Phillip Gwynne, ''Deadly, Unna?'' * James Moloney, '' Angela'' Poetry * Lee Cataldi, ''Race Against Time: Poems'' * Lucy Dougan, ''Memory Shell'' * Jean Kent (poet), ''The Satin Bowerbird'' * Anthony Lawrence (poet), ''New and Selected Poems'' * Gig Ryan, ''Pure and Applied'' Drama * Jane Harrison (playwright), ''Stolen'' S ... [...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] |
Alison Goodman
Alison Goodman (born 12 August 1966) is an Australian writer of books for young adults. Goodman's debut novel ''Singing the Dogstar Blues'' (published in Australia 1998, subsequently released in several foreign editions) won an Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. In July 2007, her adult crime thriller ''Killing the Rabbit'' was published in the United States and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award. The first book in her crossover fantasy duology ''The Two Pearls of Wisdom'' was published in Australia and the U.K in mid-2008. It was also released in the United States in late December 2008 under the title ''Eon: Dragoneye Reborn''. It has subsequently been translated into 12 languages, and won the 2009 Aurealis Award for the Best Fantasy Novel, is a 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor Book and a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book. Goodman has also written short stories for several anthologies. She has a master's degree in creative writing from RMIT Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Douglass
Sara Warneke (2 June 1957 – 27 September 2011), better known by her pen name Sara Douglass, was an Australian fantasy writer who lived in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a recipient of the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. Biography A great-granddaughter of psychic Robert James Lees, Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia. She attended Annesley College, in Wayville, a suburb of Adelaide. She studied for her BA while working as a registered nurse, and later completed her PhD in early modern English History. She became a lecturer in medieval history at La Trobe University, Bendigo. While there she completed her first novel, ''BattleAxe'', which launched her as a popular fantasy author in Australia, and later as an international success. Until the mid-2000s, Douglass hosted a bulletin board on her website, with the aim of encouraging creative thinking and constructive criticism of others' work. She maintained an online blog about the restoration project of her house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen (play)
''Stolen'' is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It is based upon the lives of five indigenous people who dealt with the issues of forceful removal by the Australian government. Plot ''Stolen'' tells the story of five Aboriginal children, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne, and Shirley. Sandy has spent his entire life on the run, never having a set home to live in. ''Stolen'' tracks his quest for a place to be, a place where he doesn’t have to keep hiding from the government (even though they are no longer after him), and a place he can call home. Ruby was forced to work as a domestic from a young age and was driven insane by the abuse of her white masters. In the latter part of the play, she spends a lot of her time mumbling to herself, whilst her family desperately try to help her. Jimmy was separated from his mother at a very young age, and she spent her entire life looking for him. He spent a lot of time in prison, and on the day he finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Harrison (playwright)
Jane Harrison (born 1960) is an Indigenous Australian playwright, novelist, writer and researcher. A descendant of the Muruwari people of New South Wales, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina, Harrison grew up in the Victorian Dandenongs with her mother and sister. She began her career as an advertising copywriter, before becoming a playwright, novelist, writer and researcher. Her best-known work is '' Stolen'', which received critical claim and has toured nationally and internationally. Plays ''The Visitors'' Harrison's latest play, ''The Visitors'', premiered as a full production in January 2020 as part of the Sydney Festival. It was awarded the prize for Best New Australian Work, Sydney Theatre Awards 2022, and was shortlisted for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. ''The Visitors'' re-imagines the arrival of the First Fleet from the perspective of seven elders meeting on the shores of the harbour. Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gig Ryan
Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan November 5, 1956, is an Australian poet. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Ryan was born in Leicester, England in 1956. Her father is the Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan. She was poetry editor of ''The Age'' newspaper 1998–2016. She has also recorded her songs with the bands Disband and Driving Past. Her book ''Pure and Applied'' won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and ''Heroic Money'' was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. ''New and Selected Poems'' was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry and the 2012 ASAL award, and winner of the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. Bibliography * ''The Division of Anger'' Transit Press (1981) * ''Manners of an Astronaut'' Hale and Iremonger (1984) * ''The Last Interior'' Scripsi Magazine (1986) * ''Excavation'' PanPicador Australia (1990) * ''Pure and Applied'' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Lawrence (poet)
Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants, including a Fellowship, and has won many awards for his poetry, including the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (three times). His most recent collection is ''Headwaters'' ( Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017. Published works Poetry *''101 Poems,'' Pitt Street Poetry, 2018 *''Headwaters'', Pitt Street Poetry, 2016 * ''Signal Flare'', Puncher & Wattman,, 2013 * ''The Welfare of My Enemy'', Puncher & Wattman. * ''Bark'', University of Queensland Press, 2008. * ''Words & Music'', Picaro Press, 2008. * ''Magnetic Field'', Picaro Press, 2008. * ''Strategies for Confronting Fear : New and Selected Poems'' Lancashire, England : Arc Publications, 2006. * ''The Sleep of a Learning Man'' Giramon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Kent (poet)
Jean Kent (born 1951) is an Australian poet. Education Jean Kent was educated at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba and graduated from University of Queensland with Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology. She has worked in vocational guidance, educational guidance of disabled children, counselling of students and staff in TAFE colleges and, most recently, teaching creative writing. Jean now lives on the New South Wales north coast, which is a feature in her verse, as well the memories and experiences formed in youth and childhood in South East Queensland. Literary career Kent has published stories in many of Australia's quality literary magazines such as Overland, Westerly, Outrider, Imago, Australian Short Stories and Meanjin as well as in the American-based Antiopodes. She has published five poetry collections. ''Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks'' included poems about her travels in Paris and Lithuania. Her latest ''The Hour of Silvered Mullet'' contemplates her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Dougan
Lucy Dougan (born 1966) is an Australian poet who began publication in 1998. Early life and education Dougan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966. In 2009 she completed her PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia in dual format ‘’On the Circumvesuviana’’ (poetry) and ‘’The Vesuvian Imaginary: The Woman's Journey to Naples in Three Texts’’ (dissertation). Her thesis formed the basis of her 2012 publication, ''On the Circumvesuviana''. Works Poetry * * * * * As editor * Awards and recognition * ''Memory Shell'' won the 2000 Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry at the ASAL Awards * ''White Clay'' won the 2006 Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, ACT Poetry Prize * ''The Guardians'' was shortlisted for the 2015 Judith Wright Calanthe Award The Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award is awarded annually as part of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Cataldi
Lee Cataldi (born 1942) is a contemporary Australian poet and linguist. Biography Cataldi was born in Sydney during World War II when, owing to her Italian heritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'. As a child she lived in Hobart, moving back to Sydney for university. Cataldi has worked as a teacher and a linguist, on Indigenous Australian languages in Halls Creek, Alice Springs and Balgo. In the late sixties she travelled to Italy and England where she became a socialist, inspired by the May 1968 uprising in France. Cataldi's first book of poems, ''Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party'', was published in 1978, winning the Anne Elder Memorial Prize in that year. ''Women who live on the ground'' (1990) received the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award; it was also short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. ''Race against time'' (1998) won the 1999 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 1998 Cataldi travelled to Madras, India, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela (novel)
''Angela'' (0702230847) is a young adult novel written by the Australian author James Moloney and first published in 1998 by University of Queensland Press. By 2013 the National Library of Australia listed 19 editions of the novel in a variety of formats including book, audio book, braille and e-book. It is the third book in the Gracey trilogy, the first being D''ougy'' (1993) and the second ''Gracey'' (1994) It won an Honourable Mention in the UNESCO Prize for Children's Literature in the Service of Tolerance and Peace. It is also part of Kerry White collection of Australian children's books. James Moloney wrote the following about ''Angela:''Angela was written six years after "Gracey". Again, I never intended to keep the story going. However, when the report about the "stolen" generation was published, I took a special interest ... I obtained a copy of the report "Bringing Them Home" and read it. This led me to read another report titled, "For the Benefit of the Child," ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Moloney
James "Jim" Moloney (born 20 September 1954) is an Australian children's author. A prolific writer whose books span an age range from seven- to seventeen-year-olds, he is best known for his young adult novels. He has been nominated and won awards for his books in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. His books have been translated into French, Korean, Lithuanian and Flemish/Dutch. Moloney was born in Sydney but grew up in Brisbane where he still lives today with his wife, Kate a retired teacher-librarian. He trained as a teacher (Griffith University) and holds diplomas in Teacher–Librarianship and Computer Education. His role as a Teacher Librarian sparked his interest in children's literature and eventually led to his early attempts at writing. His first book, ''Crossfire'', was published in 1992 and he continues to publish. In 1998 he resigned from teaching at Marist College Ashgrove and now writes full-time in a cabin in his backyard affectionately known by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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