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2007 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2007. Events *''Surrender'' by Sonya Hartnett, and ''The Book Thief'' by Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. *"The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores. *The small township of Clunes, about 20 kilometres north of Ballarat in Victoria, decides to try to set up Australia's first dedicated booktown. The first weekend event takes place on 20 May. *AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), the major Australian literature resource for research and teaching housed at the University of Queensland, announces the commencement of "Black Words", a literary website specialising in Australian Indigenous writers and storytellers and their works. *Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop, announces that the Australian Government will allocate fun ... [...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] |
Four-Cornered Circle
''Four-Cornered Circle'' is a 2007 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary, the last published prior to his death in 2010. The plot revolves around two sisters, one of whom develops feelings for the other's husband. The story is told from the point of view of the sisters, which Cleary admits was a difficult writing challenge as he attempted to avoid portraying the women's thoughts and actions from a male perspective. References External links''Four-Cornered Circle''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... (subscription required) {{Jon Cleary 2007 Australian novels HarperCollins books Novels by Jon Cleary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mireille Juchau
Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author. Early life and education Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales. She is of Jewish heritage. She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1994 for her BA thesis, ''Tracings: Writing memory and the Holocaust.'' She completed a doctorate in writing and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000, with her thesis ''Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience''. Career Juchau was the fiction editor of ''HEAT'' magazine for some time. She has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at UTS, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University. Recognition and awards * 2000 - shortlisted The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for ''Machines for Feeling'' * 2002 - winner, Perishable Theatre International Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorry (novel)
''Sorry'' is a 2007 novel by Australian author Gail Jones. Themes The novel explores the major themes of Australian Aboriginal-White relations, the isolation and despair of farm life, the Stolen Generations, and life during World War II in Australia. Dedication "For Veronica Brady." Awards *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted *Orange Prize for Fiction (UK), 2008: longlisted *Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted *Prime Minister's Literary Awards The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts. *"The Austral ... [...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] |
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] |
Love Without Hope
''Love Without Hope'' is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall. Dedication "For Julian Burnside" Epigraph "You are not dying because you are ill. You are dying because you are alive." - Montaigne Awards and nominations *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlistedFive authors make Miles Franklin shortlist , 17 April 2008. * Australia-Asia Literary Award
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Rodney Hall (writer)
Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland (1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of ''The Australian''. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published thirteen novels, including ''Just Relations'' and ''The Island in the Mind''. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the Australia Council. Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the Miles Franklin Award, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990. Hall's memoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Dog
''The Lost Dog'' is a 2007 novel by Australian writer Michelle de Kretser. Plot Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy. Awards *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: shortlisted *Barbara Jefferis Award, 2008: shortlisted *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: winner *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Book of the Year, 2008: winner *Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2008: winner *Man Booker Prize, 2008: longlisted *Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2008: shortlisted *Australia-Asia Literary Award Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA) was an initiative of the Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle De Kretser
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. Education and literary career De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, and in Melbourne at Elwood College and Paris. She worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, ''The Rose Grower''. Her second novel, published in 2003, ''The Hamilton Case'' was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, '' The Lost Dog'', was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the ''Australian Women's Book Review''. Her fourth novel, ''Questions of Travel'', won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature Society Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Day
Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician. Life Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of southwest Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as ''Archipelago of Souls'' and ''A Sand Archive'', which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has been much acclaimed for his place-based nature essays, and also for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of W. B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats on the albu''The Black Tower'' and his projec which narrates in song the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War. Day is also the co-founder with artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zookeeper's War
''The Zookeeper's War'' (2007) is a novel by Australian author Steven Conte. It won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2008. Plot summary The novel tells the story of Vera Frey, a young Australian who marries the heir to Berlin Zoo just prior to World War II. As the zoo's workers are conscripted and replaced by PoWs, Vera and her husband Axel fight to maintain the zoo's standards and to survive as the world about them disintegrates. Notes * Dedication: For my grandmother, Marion Marcus, 1901-2003. With love and thanks for other stories. Reviews * John Bailey in ''The Age'' noted: "Conte's prose style is unhurried and unforced, rarely indulging in acrobatic feats and only occasionally hinting at the journeyman status sometimes evident in first novels." Awards and nominations * 2008 shortlisted Commonwealth Writer's Prize — South East Asia and South Pacific Region - Best First Novel * 2008 winner Prime Minister's Literary Award The Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |