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2001 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001. Major publications Literary fiction * Geraldine Brooks – '' Year of Wonders'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * Bryce Courtenay – '' Four Fires'' * Robert Dessaix – ''Corfu: A Novel'' * Garry Disher – ''Past the Headlands'' * Richard Flanagan – '' Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish'' * Stephen Gray – ''The Artist is a Thief'' * Marion Halligan – ''The Fog Garden'' * Elizabeth Jolley – ''An Innocent Gentleman'' * Kathy Lette – ''Nip 'n' Tuck'' * Joan London – '' Gilgamesh'' * Tim Winton – '' Dirt Music'' * Arnold Zable – ''Cafe Scheherazade'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Graeme Base – ''The Waterhole'' * Garry Disher – ''Moondyne Kate'' * Sonya Hartnett – '' Forest'' * Odo Hirsch – ''Have Courage, Hazel Green!'' * Leigh Hobbs – ''Horrible Harriet'' * Maureen McCarthy – ''Flash Jack'' * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Brooks (writer)
Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel ''March'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield. Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor. Her mother Gloria, from Boorowa, was a public relations officer with radio station 2GB in Sydney. She attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Following graduation, she was a rookie reporter for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. The following year, in the Southern Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable (born 1947) is an Australian writer, novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate. His books include the memoir ''Jewels and Ashes'', three novels: ''Café Scheherazade'', ''Scraps of Heaven'', and ''Sea of Many Returns'', two collections of stories: ''The Fig Tree'' and ''Violin Lessons'', and ''The Fighter''. His most recent book, ''The Watermill'', was published in March 2020. Life Zable was born on 10 January 1947 in Wellington, New Zealand to Polish-Jewish refugee parents. They moved early in his life to Australia and he grew up in Carlton, Victoria. Themes and style Zable is known as a storyteller — through his memoirs, short stories and novels. Australian critic Susan Varga says that Zable's award-winning memoir, ''Jewels and Ashes'', "was a ground-breaking book in Australia, one of the first of what has since become a distinct auto/biographical genre: a second-generation writer returns to the scene of unspeakable crimes to try to understand a fraught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunty Avieson
Carolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, feature writer, novelist and academic. Career Avieson has a PhD and a Master of Philosophy from Macquarie University, as well as an Associate Diploma of Journalism from RMIT University. In 2008–2009 she worked as a media consultant to newspaper '' Bhutan Observer,'' partly funded by the United Nations Development Program and was a consultant to Journalists Without Borders, Asia Pacific Desk. Avieson has published three novels, a novella and travel memoir; and been translated into Japanese, German and Thai. She is the recipient of two Ned Kelly Awards. In the 1990s she was editorial director of mass market women's magazines '' Woman's Day'' and ''New Idea''. She is a senior lecturer in journalism and media at the University of Sydney. Awards * 2002 – Ned Kelly Awards – winner of the Best First Novel and Reader's Vote, for ''Apartment 255'' * 2003 – shortlisted for Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards – Best Novel f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Dogs Cry
''When Dogs Cry'' is the third young adult fiction novel written by Australian writer Markus Zusak in the Wolfe family books. It is a stand-alone companion novel (sequel) to his young adult fiction novels '' Fighting Ruben Wolfe'' and '' The Underdog''. It was first published in 2001 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty limited. It was published in United States by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press, April 2003 under the title ''Getting the Girl''. Both titles come from the titles of poems in the book. ''From the back of the soft cover Australian edition titled'' When Dogs Cry: 'You're a bit of a lonely bastard, aren't you?' said Rube. 'Yeah," I answered, 'I guess I am.' But Cameron Wolfe is hungry. He's sick of being the filthy, torn, half-smiling, half-scowling underdog. He's finally met a girl. He's got words in his spirit. And now he's out to prove that there's nothing more beautiful than an underdog whose willing to stand up. ''From the back of the soft cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer with Austrian and German roots. He is best known for ''The Book Thief'' and '' The Messenger'' (US title: ''I Am the Messenger''), two novels which became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014. Early life and career Zusak was born in Sydney, Australia. His mother Lisa is originally from Germany and his father Helmut is from Austria. They emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s. Markus is the youngest of four children and has two sisters and one brother. He attended Engadine High School and briefly returned there to teach English while writing. He studied English and history at the University of New South Wales, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. Zusak is the author of six books. His first three books, ''The Underdog'', ''Fighting Ruben Wolfe'', and ''When Dogs Cry'', released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally. ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild (born 1948) is an Australian children's writer. She has written more than 40 books for children. Her work has been published around the world and has won several awards. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 2022. Life Wild was born in Eshowe, South Africa, an early European settlement now a market town. Her bank manager's family moved frequently and she attended state schools in Johannesburg. She came to Australia in 1972, worked as a magazine feature writer, and finished her education at Australian National University in Canberra. In Sydney she raised a family, worked as a freelance writer, worked sixteen years as a book editor in children's publishing—1984 to 2000, finally at ABC Books, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Writer Wild's books explore a diverse range of themes but she is particularly noted for exploring issues of identity, trust, and death. ''Let the Celebrations Begin'' (1991) focused on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Tree (Shaun Tan)
''The Red Tree'' (2001), written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, is a picture book that presents a fragmented journey through a dark world. The text is sparse and the illustrations are dark and surrealism, surreal. The story is based on images inspired by the experience of Depression (mood), depression. The main character is a lonely red-headed girl who goes about her day feeling wikt:alienation, alienated, despondent, and loneliness, lonely. The illustrations depict her in various wikt:abstract, abstract situations that metaphorically depict her feelings. Almost unnoticed in each picture is a small red leaf (symbolising hope). At the end, the little girl stands smiling at a beautiful red-leafed tree growing in her bedroom. This little tree that has now beautifully blossomed in the center of her room is symbolized as her reward for the hardships she has been through in her life. This book is one of many picture books by Tan, who also addresses issues such as immigration and cultu ... [...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] |
Lirael
''Lirael'' (called ''Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr'' in some regions) is a fantasy novel by Garth Nix, first published in 2001. Named for its central female character, ''Lirael'' is the second in his Old Kingdom trilogy, preceded by ''Sabriel'' and continued in ''Abhorsen''. Plot introduction The book is split into three parts, the first of which is set 14 years after the events in ''Sabriel''; the last two parts are set five years after part one. Sabriel and Touchstone have married since ''Sabriel'' and assumed a measure of control over the Old Kingdom. Their children Ellimere and Sameth were going to school in Ancelstierre (similarly to Sabriel) before being expected to take up their duties in the Old Kingdom. Plot summary Lirael, the protagonist of the second and third books, is raised as a Clayr, part of a vast family of precognitive women who dwell in a remote glacier within the Old Kingdom. As she lacks the Clayr's precognitive 'Sight', she considers herself not a true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garth Nix
Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the ''Old Kingdom'', '' Seventh Tower'' and '' Keys to the Kingdom'' series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name." Biography Born in Melbourne, Nix was raised in Canberra. He attended Turner Primary School, Lyneham High School and Dickson College for schooling. While at Dickson College, Nix joined the Australian Army Reserve. After a period working for the Australian government, he traveled in Europe before returning to Australia in 1983 and undertaking a BA in professional writing at Canberra University. He worked in a Canberra bookshop after graduation, before moving to Sydney in 1987, where he worked his way up in the publishing field. He was a sales rep and publicist before becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Hobbs
Leigh Hobbs (born 18 April 1953) is an Australian artist and author. He is best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children's books which he has written and illustrated, although he has produced works across a wide range of mediums. His books principally feature the characters ''Old Tom'', ''Horrible Harriet'', ''Fiona the Pig'', ''Mr Badger'' and ''Mr Chicken'', and characters from the ''4F for FREAKS'' books. He was the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016–17. Life and career Leigh Hobbs was born in Williamstown in Victoria, Australia and grew up in the town of Bairnsdale. After graduating from Caulfield Institute of Technology art school (now Monash University) in 1973, he was employed as an artist at Sydney's Luna Park, an amusement park located adjacent to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. While there he designed the colour scheme for the antique carousel, and created two large three-dimensional characters called ''Larry'' and ''Lizzy Luna'', whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odo Hirsch
Odo Hirsch (born 1962) is the pen name of David Kausman, an Australian author of children's books. He was born in Melbourne, where he trained to be a doctor, but moved to London, where he currently lives. After working as a doctor in both Melbourne and London, he joined Amnesty International, where he reported on torture victims and examined hospital conditions in Eastern Europe. After doing a master's degree in political thought at Cambridge University, he joined McKinsey & Company in 1997. This was when his first novel for children, ''Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman'', was published. His other books include ''Bartlett and the Ice Voyage'', which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His novels have been shortlisted many times for the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Books ''Bartlett'' series *''Bartlett and the Ice Voyage'' (1998) *''Bartlett and the City of Flames'' *''Bartlett and the Forest Of Plenty'' *''Bartlett and the Island of Kings'' (2003) ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |