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1999 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1999. Events * Murray Bail won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Eucalyptus'' * Jan Fullerton was appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia, being the first woman and first internal appointee Major publications Novels * Thea Astley, ''Drylands'' * Lily Brett, ''Too Many Men'' * Kate Grenville, ''The Idea of Perfection'' * Julia Leigh, '' The Hunter'' * Bruce Pascoe, ''Shark'' * Dorothy Porter, ''What a Piece of Work'' * Matthew Reilly, '' Ice Station'' * Heather Rose, ''White Heart'' * Kim Scott, ''Benang'' Children's and young adult fiction * Helen Barnes, ''Killing Aurora'' * Graeme Base, ''The Worst Band in the Universe'' * Kim Caraher, ''Goanna Anna'' * Nick Earls, '' 48 Shades of Brown'' * Christine Harris (author), ''Foreign Devil'' * Sonya Hartnett, '' Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf'' * Victor Kelleher, ''The Ivory Trail'' * Markus Zusa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Bail
Murray Bail (born 22 September 1941) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. In 1980 he shared the Age Book of the Year award for his novel ''Homesickness.'' He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India (1968–70) and England and Europe (1970–74). He lives in Sydney. He was trustee of the National Gallery of Australia from 1976 to 1981 and wrote a book on Australian artist Ian Fairweather. A portrait of Bail by the artist Fred Williams is hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. The portrait was done while both Williams and Bail were Council members of the National Gallery of Australia. Career He is most well known for ''Eucalyptus'', which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999. His other work includes the novels ''Homesickness'', which was a joint winner of The Age Book of the Year in 1980, and ''Holden's Performance'', another award-winner. Reviewers recently compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Louise Hartnett (born 1968) is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature. She has published books as Sonya Hartnett, S. L. Hartnett, and Cameron S. Redfern. Writer Hartnett was born in Box Hill, Victoria. She was thirteen years old when she wrote her first novel and fifteen when it was published for the adult market in Australia, ''Trouble All the Way'' (Adelaide: Rigby Publishers, 1984). For years she has written about one novel annually. Although she is often classified as a writer of young adult fiction, Hartnett does not consider this label entirely accurate: "I've been perceived as a young adult writer whereas my books have never really been young ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Devil (Harris Novel)
''Foreign Devil'' is a 1999 young adult horror novel by Christine Harris. It follows the story of Tyler Norton who is abducted by pirates from the past and faces a bid for freedom. Background ''Foreign Devil'' was first published in Australia in 1999 by Random House in trade paperback Trade paperback may refer to: * Trade paperback, a higher-quality softcover version of a book * Trade paperback (comics) In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published ... format. It won the 1999 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and a travel grant from the Department for the Arts and Cultural Development. References External links * 1999 Australian novels Australian horror novels Novels about pirates Aurealis Award-winning works {{1990s-horror-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Harris (author)
Christine Harris (born 1955) is an Australian writer of children's and young adult with works both in speculative fiction and historical fiction. Biography Christine Harris was born in Mile End, South Australia in 1955. In 1992 Harris' first book was released, entitled ''Outer Face'' which was a collection of 14 of her short stories. She has since released numerous other short stories and released three other collections. Harris has also had published over ten novels including three series, written seven poems and released a picture book and two anthologies. She has won or been nominated for various awards including the 1999 Aurealis Award best horror novel for ''Foreign Devil'', and the 2009 White Ravens Award for ''Audrey of the Outback'', among others. She was joint winner of the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award for ''Audrey Goes to Town''. Bibliography Novels Vibes *''Jigsaw'' (1998) *''Shadows'' (1998) *''Masks'' (1998) *''Suspicion'' (1998) Hot Shots *'' Brain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48 Shades Of Brown
''48 Shades of Brown'' is a young-adult novel by Australian author Nick Earls, published by Penguin Books in 1999. The novel was awarded ''Children's Book of the Year: Older Readers'' by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 2000. The novel has been adapted into a play and a film. Plot In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. His story is light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity. Adaptations In 2001, Philip Dean adapted the novel into a play for the La Boite Theatre Company. The play's script was published by Currency Press. The novel was also adapted into a film, titled ''48 Shades ''48 Shades'' (titled ''Australian Pie: Naked Love'' in the United States) is a 2006 Australian comedy film by debut director Daniel Lapaine, starring Richard Wilson, Emma Lung, Robin McLeavy, and Victoria Thaine. It is based on Nick Earls' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Earls
Nicholas Francis Ward Earls (born 8 October 1963) is a novelist from Brisbane, Australia, who writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life. The majority of his novels are set in his home town of Brisbane. He fronted a major Brisbane tourism campaign. Biography Earls was born on 8 October 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. He emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister at the age of nine. Living in Brisbane, he was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School there. He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland and worked as a GP before turning to writing.Silkstone, DanMature face of Aussie lad lit ''The Age'', 15 July 2006. Career Earls has been compared to Nick Hornby. ''Zigzag Street'', his second novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998 (sharing with Kiran Desai's ''Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard''). His young-adult novel, '' 48 Shades of Brown'', won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Caraher
Kim Caraher was an Australian author. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, moved to Africa at age seven, and lived in three countries before settling in the Northern Territory, Australia. She died on 19 May 2007 after suffering from cancer for a long time. After Caraher died her son posted a blog of her death, along with blogs that she had written.http://kimcaraher.wordpress.com/ Kim Caraher's Kimbetan Blog of Living and Dying In 1998, she earned a Children's Book Council Notable Book award for ''The Cockroach Cup'', which was also shortlisted for the 2000 West Australian Young Readers' Book Award. Also her book ''Zip Zap'' earned an Aurealis Award for Best Children's Short Fiction The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and Conflux Inc to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must h ... in 2002. Books * ''There's a Bat on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worst Band In The Universe
''The Worst Band In The Universe'' is a science fiction children's book written and illustrated by Graeme Base published in 1999 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. The book comes with a CD containing music based on a music competition that occurs in the middle of the story. Like many of Base's books, the book has minimal text written in verse along with large detailed pictures. The inspiration for the story came from the author's wanting to write something about music, having played in a band prior to his career as an author and illustrator. Plot summary The story follows the adventures of a young groob, named Sprocc, who loves to play with his splingtwanger (a guitar-like instrument). On his homeworld, planet Blipp, creativity is stifled and only the traditional music passed down from many generations is allowed. This stagnant environment quickly becomes too much for the artistic Sprocc and he improvises his own music, this nearly gets him exiled from his homeworld. But, he decides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Base
Graeme Rowland Base (born 6 April 1958) is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, '' Animalia'' published in 1986, and third book '' The Eleventh Hour'' which was released in 1989. Background He was born in Amersham, England, but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since. He attended Box Hill High School and Melbourne High School in Melbourne, and then studied a Diploma of Art (Graphic Design) for three years at Swinburne University of Technology at Prahran. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well.Biographical information on Graeme Base from Penguin (US) http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000002108,00.html His first book, ''My Grandma lived in Gooligulch'', was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. Base resides in Melbourne with his wife Robyn and has thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killing Aurora
''Killing Aurora'' is a novel by Helen Barnes about a girl with anorexia. It was published in 1999 by Penguin Books. Plot summary The novel contains two central characters, both fourteen years of age: the first, Aurora Thorpe (rabbit queen), has been forced by her overprotective mother and stepfather to attend the prestigious St Dymphna's Non-Denominational Ladies' College. The second, also attending St Dymphna's, is Web Richardson (rabbit king), an outcast from a single parent family. Aurora and Web share a prickly connection, despite Aurora's reluctance to be associated with the terribly unpopular Web. In an abruptly unfamiliar environment, and under the pressure of family and social expectations, Aurora becomes increasingly concerned with losing weight as a means of achieving the acceptance of her peers and living up to her own rigorous standards. Meanwhile, Web endures life without a mother, having only the scant guidance of her timid father, overbearing aunt, bitter gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Barnes
Helen Gertrude Barnes (July 5, 1895 – June 1, 1925) was an American musical comedy actress and Ziegfeld Follies Girl. Early life Helen Gertrude Barnes was born on July 5, 1895, in Shelton, Connecticut, the first of two daughters raised by William and Anna Barnes. Her father hailed from Pennsylvania and supported his family as a day laborer and later as a typewriter salesman. Barnes’s mother was born in England of Scottish parents and had come to America, presumably with her parents, at around the age of two. William and Anna married in 1894, and in July 1896 completed their family with the birth of their second daughter, Ruth. Not long after Ruth’s arrival the Barnes family relocated to Washington D.C. Career She began her career at the age of nineteen as a member of the chorus line in the 1914/15 Broadway musical ''Watch Your Step'' at the New Amsterdam Theatre. In May 1915 Barnes began a four-year association with Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. as performer in his annual ''Zi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
