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2000 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2000. Events * ''Drylands'' by Thea Astley and ''Benang'' by Kim Scott were joint winners of the Miles Franklin Award Major publications Novels * Peter Carey, ''True History of the Kelly Gang'' * Rodney Hall, ''The Day We Had Hitler Home'' * Alex Miller, '' Conditions of Faith'' * Frank Moorhouse, ''Dark Palace'' Short story anthologies * Carmel Bird (editor), ''The Penguin Century of Australian Stories'' Poetry * Dorothy Hewett and John Kinsela, ''Wheatlands'' Children's and young adult fiction * Jaclyn Moriarty, '' Feeling Sorry for Celia'' * Sonya Hartnett, '' Thursday's Child'' * James Moloney, '' Touch Me'' * John Marsden, ''Winter'' * Shaun Tan, ''The Lost Thing'' Plays * Hannie Rayson, ''Life After George'' * David Williamson **'' Face to Face'' **''The Great Man'' Non-fiction * Brian Matthews, ''A Fine and Private Place'' * Wendy McCarthy, ''Don't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drylands (novel)
''Drylands'' (1999) (subtitled "A Book for the World's Last Reader") is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley. This novel shared the award with ''Benang'' by Kim Scott. Awards *Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–19 ..., 2000: joint winner * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2000: winner Review * * Kerryn Goldsworthy: "''Drylands'' is Astley's ''Waste Land'', with a cast of exhausted and alienated characters wandering through it in the death-grip of entropy, pursued by '' fin-de-siècle'' furies and other personifications of failure and defeat. In the small town of Drylands there are no fragments shored against anybody's ruin (well, there are, but even the fragments get vandalized and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feeling Sorry For Celia
''Feeling Sorry for Celia'' is a young adult novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. It was first published in 2000 by Pan Macmillan. The story is told in a series of letters. Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of everything else, because her English teacher wants to rekindle the "Joy of the Envelope," a Complete and Utter Stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. But Elizabeth is on the verge of some major changes. She may lose her best friend, find a wonderful new friend, kiss the sexiest guy alive, and run in a marathon. So much can happen in the time it takes to write a letter... Plot The story's protagonist is a 15-year-old-girl named Elizabeth Clarry. Elizabeth lives in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with her mother and her dog, a collie named Lochie. The story begins when Elizabeth, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Matthews (writer)
Brian Matthews (1936–2022) was an Australian literary scholar, biographer and short story writer. He is considered Australia's foremost scholar of Henry Lawson and Lawson's mother Louisa. Life and career Matthews was born in St Kilda, Victoria, and educated at De La Salle College and Melbourne University. He took a BA with a major in English and later an MA on Henry Lawson under the direction of Vincent Buckley. After teaching in various schools in the 1950s and 1960s, he moved to Adelaide in 1967 to work at Bedford Park Teachers' College, but soon joined the new English Department at Flinders University. He taught English and Australian literature (and in later years, solely the latter) until the early 1990s at Flinders. He was a frequent visitor to Italy, where he taught Australian literature, and spent 1974 at Exeter University. In 1986 he held a Fulbright Fellowship and taught at the University of Oregon. Matthews took a leading role in the establishment of the Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Man (play)
''The Great Man'' is a 2000 Australian play by David Williamson David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Vi ... about the death of a prominent Labor Party politician and its impact on people close to him. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Great Man, The Plays by David Williamson 2000 plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face To Face (play)
''Face to Face'' is a 2000 play by Australian playwright David Williamson. It is part of the ''Jack Manning Trilogy'' (''Face to Face'' (2000), ''A Conversation'' (2001), ''Charitable Intent'' (2001)) which take as their format community conferencing, a new form of restorative justice which Wiliamson became interested in the late 1990s and early 2000s.When Glen, a young construction worker, rams into the back of his boss's Mercedes in a fit of anger at being sacked, he is given the opportunity to discuss his actions in a community conference, rather than going straight to court. accessed 29 November 2012 Community conferencing - an alternative method of justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williamson
David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965. His early forays into the theatre were as an actor and writer of skits for the Engineers' Revue at Melbourne University's Union Theatre at lunchtime during the early 1960s, and as a satirical sketch writer for Monash University student reviews and the Emerald Hill Theatre Company. After a brief stint as design engineer for Holden, GM Holden, Williamson became a lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics at Swinburne University of Technology (then Swinburne Technical Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannie Rayson
Hannie Rayson (born 1957) is an Australian playwright and newspaper columnist. She is recognised as one of Australia's most significant playwrights. Biography Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson was the co-founder of the community theatre group, Theatreworks in Melbourne's inner eastern suburb of St Kilda, working there for four years while writing. Rayson has been writer-in-residence at Geelong's Mill Theatre, Playbox Theatre, La Trobe University (which has awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters), and Monash University. Rayson's first major success was ''Hotel Sorrento'', which won several prizes including an AWGIE Award. The play has become an Australian classic, regularly performed by regional theatre groups, and appearing in university courses and on the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Thing
''The Lost Thing'' is a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan that was also adapted into an Academy Award-winning animated short film. Plot Set in the near future, a dystopian Melbourne, Australia, ''The Lost Thing'' is a story about Shaun who enjoys collecting bottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle tops near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, that seems to be a combination of a crab, an octopus, and an industrial boiler. This creature is referred to as "The Lost Thing" by the narrator. Shaun realizes the creature is lost and out of place in Jupiter. He attempts to find its owner or otherwise its source but is not able to, due to the indifference of everyone else. Pete, an opinionated friend of Shaun's, explains that it may not actually belong anywhere. When he seeks help from a government agency, he is met by a creature who warns that the department exists only to hide and forget about uncategorizable things, and gives hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include '' The Red Tree'' and '' The Arrival''. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter (Marsden Novel)
Winter is a young adult novel by John Marsden in 2000. Winter, the protagonist of the story, returns to the family estate which she left at the age of four when her parents died. She finds that everything is not as it seems when she visits her parents' graves, and she is determined to uncover the answers. Winter has been well received by the literary audience. However, it has not received the same critical acclaim as some of Marsden's other works, including the Tomorrow series, Letters from the Inside and So Much to Tell You. Winter was inspired by Marsden's own experience of moving into a rundown house in the country. The descriptions of Winter's house and her efforts to restore it are a real-life description of Marsden's own house, and his own efforts to restore it. Plot summary Winter is a headstrong 16-year-old girl whose parents died when she was 4. Since then she has lived with her mother's half sister and her husband, the Robinsons. At the start of the book, she return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marsden (writer)
John Marsden (born 27 September 1950) is an Australian writer and unlicensed alternative school principal. Marsden's books have been translated into eleven languages. While working as a teacher, Marsden began writing for children, and had his first book, ''So Much to Tell You'', published in 1987. Since then, he has written or edited over 40 books and has sold over 5 million books throughout the world. In 2006, Marsden started an alternative school, Candlebark School in the Macedon Ranges. Marsden has since reduced his writing to focus on teaching and running the school. In 2016, he opened the arts-focused secondary school, Alice Miller School, also in the Macedon Ranges. He is also the patron of youth media organisation Express Media. He has no academic education in pedagogy and is not state licenced. Early life Marsden was born in Victoria and spent the first 10 years of his life living in the country towns of Kyneton, Victoria, and Devonport, Tasmania. He is a great-great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touch Me (novel)
''Touch Me'' () is a novel written by Australian author James Moloney. It was published in April 2000 by University of Queensland Press. The National Library of Australia holds eleven editions of this title including as a book, braille, sound recording, MP3 and electronic resource. It is also included in the Kerry White collection of Australian children's books. James Moloney wrote that the characters were not based on any particular individual but several events in his life influenced him: I had been thinking a great deal about the nature of masculinity. How does a man act in this day and age? After 30 years of feminist influence, are new things expected of men? Have men responded to the challenge for change in the face of differing roles and expectations among women? I wanted to explore this in a novel from the point of view of young adults. I thought it would be interesting to make my character a footballer, with all the baggage that this can sometimes bring - the bravado, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |