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2004 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2004. Events *John Hay, Peter Porter, Elizabeth Webby, W. H. Wilde, and Barbara Ker Wilson are all recognised in the 2004 Australia Day Honours. * Peter Craven is sacked as editor of ''Quarterly Essay'' and the annual ''The Best Australian...'' anthologies after a dispute with Black Inc. publisher Morry Schwartz. *Kenneth Dutton, Nick Enright, Morag Fraser, David Myers, and Brenda Niall are recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours list. *Independent book publishers Text (Australia) and Canongate (UK) form a joint venture. The Text Media Group, purchased by John Fairfax earlier this year, sells Text Publishing to the joint venture partners. *''Sydney Morning Herald'' Literary Editor, Malcolm Knox exposes Norma Khouri and her 'factual' account of honour killings in Jordan as a fabrication. *Mark Rubbo, David Marr and Kerryn Goldsworthy resign as Miles Franklin Award judges i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Porter (poet)
Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM (16 February 192923 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet. Life Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School (then known as the Church of England Grammar School) and left school at eighteen to work as a trainee journalist at ''The Courier-Mail''. However, he only lasted a year with the paper before he was dismissed. He emigrated to England in 1951. On the boat he met the future novelist Jill Neville. Porter was portrayed in Neville's first book, ''The Fall Girl'' (1966). After two suicide attempts, he returned to Brisbane. Ten months later he was back in England. In 1955 he began attending meetings of " The Group". It was his association with "The Group" that allowed him to publish his first collection in 1961. He married Jannice Henry, a nurse from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in 1961 and they had two daughters (born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for ''The Sunday Age'' newspaper in Melbourne. Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer Fiona Capp, and their son. As of 2019, he also writes the non-fiction book review column for the '' Sydney Morning Herald''. Awards and nominations * 2002: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * 2005: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, ''The Gift of Speed'' * 2005: Prix Femina (France), Shortlisted for Best Foreign Novel, ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' * 2008: Miles Franklin Award, Winner, ''The Time We Have Taken'' * 2008: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region, Winner, ''The Time We Have Taken'' * 2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Joint Winner for Fiction, '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica McInerney
Monica McInerney is a best-selling Australian-born, Dublin-based writer. In 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019 McInerney was voted into the top ten of Booktopia's 'Australia's Favourite Novelist' poll. Her 13th novel, 'The Godmothers', was released in 2020. Her first children's book 'Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat' was published in 2021. Her books have been published worldwide and in more than a dozen languages. Life McInerney grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley wine region of South Australia, where her father was the railway stationmaster and her mother worked in the local library. Since then Monica has lived in several Australian cities, and in Ireland and London. A book publicist for ten years, McInerney has also worked on events such as the Dublin International Writers' Festival. She has previously worked as an event manager and organiser of tourism festivals, a freelance writer/editor, a record company press officer, a barmaid, grape picker and hotel cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Earth
''The White Earth'' is a 2004 novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan. The book won the 2005 Miles Franklin Award. The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009. Plot The book follows a dual narrative between the perspectives of William and John, where William's takes place over the time period of late 1992 to 1993 and John's takes place from his childhood up to the present of 1993. William's narrative follows his father dying in an explosion and William and his mother being invited by John to Kuran Station. At the station, William learns from John some stories of the land and is introduced to the water hole. John then organises an anti-Native Title rally, which ends in disaster as it gets out of control. At the rally, William sees a burning man in nausea and John is injured in the chaos. After the rally, John's daughter, Ruth, arrives in awareness of John's injury, and the daughter and father are sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan (10 October 1966 – 1 February 2019) was an Australian novelist, best known for his first novel ''Praise'', and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel ''The White Earth''. His novel ''Praise'' is considered to be part of the Australian literary genre of grunge lit. Early life and education Born in Dalby, Queensland, McGahan was the ninth of ten children and grew up on a wheat farm. His schooling was at St Columba's and St Mary's colleges in Dalby, and then Marist College Ashgrove in Brisbane. He commenced an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, but dropped out halfway through, in 1985, to return to the family farm, and to commence his first novel – which was never published. He then spent the next few years working in a variety of jobs, until 1991, when he wrote his first published novel, ''Praise''. Literary career Novels In 1991 McGahan won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished novels with ''Praise'' – a semi-autobiographical ... [...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] |
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey (; born 13 April 1947) is an Australian writer and novelist. Career Lohrey completed her education at the University of Tasmania before taking up a scholarship at the University of Cambridge. From 1988 to 1994 she lectured in writing and textual studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has held the position of lecturer in School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 2002, and joined the Australian National University School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics as a visiting fellow in 2016 where she continues to write fiction. Awards and nominations * 1988 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ''The Reading Group'' *1996 winner Australian Literature Society Gold Medal ''Camille's Bread'' * 1996 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ''Camille's Bread'' * 1996 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixty Lights
''Sixty Lights'' is a 2004 novel by Australian author Gail Jones. Themes The novel explores the themes of the family relationships, marriage, death and loss. Dedication "For my brothers, Peter and Kevin Jones." Awards *Booker Prize, 2004: longlisted *Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2004: winner *Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize, 2004: winner *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2005: commended *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2005: shortlisted *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2005: shortlisted *Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2005 *The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, 2005: winner *Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2005: shortlisted *South Australia Premier's Awards Fiction, 2006: winner *South Australia Premier's Awards Best Overall Published Work, 2006: winner *International D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Jones (writer)
Gail Jones (born 1955) is an Australian novelist and academic. Early life and career Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie. She studied fine arts briefly at the University of Melbourne before returning to Western Australia where she took her undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1994. Her thesis was on ''Mimesis and alterity : postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial 'others'.'' She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the Western Sydney University. Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, ''The floating world'' by Jo Darbyshire (2009). Since 2017 Jones has been involved in a research project Other Worlds: Forms of 'World Literature', for which she is leading a theme titled 'Form as Encounter' that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters. Published works Novels *''Black Mirror'' (2002) *''Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Johnson (Australian Author)
Susan Johnson (born 1956) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. She has been a full-time writer since 1985, with occasional stints of journalism at Australian newspapers, journals and magazines. Biography Johnson was born in 1956, in Brisbane, Queensland. She spent her childhood in Sydney, attending St Ives High School In New South Wales and then Nambour High School and Clayfield College in Queensland. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology. Her latest novel ''The Landing'' was published in August, 2015. At the National Library of Australia Johnson delivered the ''2011 Ray Mathew Lecture'' entitled "Prodigal Daughter", in which she explored the topic of expatriate Australian women authors, her ambivalent relationship to Australia, and Australia's attitude towards its artists. Susan Johnson was on the program to appear in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queen ... [...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] |
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays and poetry and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. Life and career Earlier life Jack Dann was born to a Jewish family in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York. His father was an attorney and a Judge. Dann describes himself as having been "a troublesome child in a very small town" and in his teens associated with a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
