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2003 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003. Events * Peter Carey and Joan London join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002 Richard Flanagan and Tim Winton also declined to have their books nominated for the prize in protest at the involvement of Forestry Tasmania as a sponsor of the Ten Days on the Island festival at which the award winner is to be announced. *Members of The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted in their Society's 40th anniversary poll to select Australia's favourite book. Tim Winton's ''Cloudstreet'' headed the poll followed by ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead and '' The Fortunes of Richard Mahony'' by Henry Handel Richardson. *Nevil Shute's 1950 novel, ''A Town Like Alice'' was included in a BBC-sponsored UK survey of 100 popular novels, but has failed to make a similar Australian list. Major publications Lite ... [...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] |
The Bride Stripped Bare (novel)
''The Bride Stripped Bare'' is a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously. The title is borrowed from the painting '' The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even'' (also known as ''The Large Glass'') by Marcel Duchamp. It went on to become the best-selling book by an Australian author in 2003.''Bookmarks by Jason Steger'', The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ..., 31 January 2004 In 2005, it was announced that Australian screenwriter Andrew Bovell, who penned the award-winning film drama, '' Lantana'', was to adapt ''The Bride Stripped Bare'' for the screen. The book is written in the form of a diary by a young wife who has disappeared. In it, the author talks frankly about oral sex and love, and chronicles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ''The Thorn Birds'' and ''The Ladies of Missalonghi''. Life McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, in the Central West region of New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, the family moved around a great deal and she was also "a voracious reader".Mary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, p. 2 Her family eventually settled in Sydney where she attended Holy Cross College, Woollahra, having a strong interest in both science and the humanities. She had a younger brother, Carl, who drowned off the coast of Crete when he was 25 while trying to rescue tourists in difficulty. She based a character in ''The Thorn Birds'' on him, and also wrote about him in ''Life Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Lette
Kathryn Marie Lette (born 11 November 1958) is an Australian-British author whose works have been best-sellers. Early life Lette was born on 11 November 1958 in Sydney's southern suburbs. She appeared in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' of 20 August 1978 pictured in Martin Place with her friend Gabrielle Carey in an article titled "Buskers Lose Freak Tag". They were standing up for buskers' rights not to be moved on as Sydney City Council enforced a 1919 Act of Parliament in New South Wales. Career Lette first attracted attention in 1979 as the co-author (with Gabrielle Carey) of ''Puberty Blues'', a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls attempting to improve their social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhills gang" of surfers. The book was made into a film in 1981 and a TV series in 2012. She subsequently became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with ''Girls' Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tyrant's Novel
''The Tyrant's Novel'' is a 2003 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally. Plot summary An unnamed country's tyrannical ruler, Great Uncle, commands author Alan Sheriff to ghost-write a novel that will have the literary circles of the western world talking about him. The novel is told from the point-of-view of Sheriff after he has arrived in Australia as a refugee and been incarcerated in a detention centre. Notes * Dedication: To my brother, John Patrick, the good practitioner, with fraternal love Reviews Alfred Hicking in ''The Guardian'' was cautious about confirming the book as one of Keneally's best: " Keneally's novels are often prodigiously long and overstuffed with a multitude of literary devices - the bulging tome of 2002's ''Bettany's Book'' suggested there were at least two better-proportioned novels fighting to get out. By Keneally's standards, The Tyrant's Novel is a mere slip of a thing. Whether it will turn out to be the other book on his epitaph, we will h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into Steven Spielberg's 1993 film ''Schindler's List'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Early life Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent in Kempsey. His father, Edmund Thomas Keneally, flew for the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II, then returned to work in a small business in Sydney. By 1942, the family had moved to 7 Loftus Crescent, Homebush, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney and Keneally was enrolled at Christian Brothers St Patrick's College, Strathfield. Shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nada Awar Jarrar
Nada Awar Jarrar is a Lebanese novelist. Her novel, ''Somewhere, Home'', won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia and South Pacific. She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington D.C. She is married; they have a daughter and live in Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o .... Works *''Somewhere, home'', Heinemann, 2003, *''Dreams of Water'', Harper, 2007, *''A good land'', HarperCollins, 2009, * ''An Unsafe Haven'', The Borough Press, 2016Cowdrey, Catherine (02 February, 2016Borough Press buys novel inspired by refugee crisis The Bookseller Non-fiction * References External links * ;Reviews"Reviews" ''Third Way'', April 2007"Dreams of Water" ''Gutter Poetry in the Arab World'', November 22, 2008 Lebanese novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Water
''Slow Water'' is a 2003 novel by New Zealand author Annamarie Jagose. Notes *"Dedication: For Lee". Awards *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2004: shortlisted *Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2004: winner *Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2004: winner External links Reviews "Sydney Morning Herald" 2003 Australian novels 21st-century New Zealand novels 2003 novels {{2000s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annamarie Jagose
Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) is an LGBT academic and writer of fictional works. Life and career Jagose was born in Ashburton, New Zealand in 1965. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she was a Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland and Head of the Department from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2016 she was Head of the School of Literature, Art and Media at the University of Sydney and in 2017 she took up the role of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She has been the subject of recent controversy in her administrative position at the University of Sydney for initiating a restructure of the University in light of the coronavirus pandemic, which could see 30% of staff made redundant. Awards and honours * 1994 won NZSA Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina). Early life and education Turner was born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland. She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965. She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973. Career Her books are published in multiple translations. Turner Hospital also teaches literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England and the United States (MIT, Boston University, Colgate and the University of South Carolina). She visited the Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University in 2010. Honours and awards Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Heyman
Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer of novels and plays. She is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program and Fiction Program Director of Faber Writing Academy. Career Born in New South Wales, Australia, she was brought up in City of Lake Macquarie, Lake Macquarie with her four siblings.Jodie Minus, "The Face: Kathryn Heyman", ''Weekend Australian'', 17–18 May 2003, Review, p. R3. As a young adult Heyman spent many years in the United Kingdom, where she studied under the Caribbean poet E.A. Markham, and where she was first published. Heyman is the author of six novels: ''The Breaking'' (1997), ''Keep Your Hands on the Wheel'' (1999), ''The Accomplice'' (2003) ''Captain Starlight's Apprentice'' (2006) ''Floodline'' (2013) and ''Storm and Grace'' (2017) She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing fellowships in the UK and Australia. Her short stories have appeared in a number of collections and also on radio. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Fire (Hazzard Novel)
''The Great Fire'' (2003) is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and a Miles Franklin literary award (2004). The novel was Hazzard's first since ''The Transit of Venus'', published in 1980. Overview The novel commences in Japan in 1947, and subsequently takes in Hong Kong, England and New Zealand. Written in the third-person narrative, the novel principally follows its protagonist, the decorated British war veteran Aldred Leith, who is travelling through post-war Asia to write a book. At times the narrator follows Peter Exley, an Australian friend of Leith's who is investigating Japanese war crimes, and Helen Driscoll, an Australian teenager with whom Leith falls in love while billeted in Japan. ''The New Yorker'' wrote of the novel: Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating. Hierarchies of feeling, perception, and taste abound in her writing, and this novel—her first in more than twenty years—takes on the very not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |