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2010 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010. Events *26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List. *February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that ''Cloudstreet'' by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel. *22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel ''Truth'' ''ABC News'', 22 June 2010. becoming the first crime novel to do so. Major publications Literary fiction * Jon Bauer – ''Rocks in the Belly'' * |
Peter Goldsworthy
Peter David Goldsworthy AM (born 12 October 1951) is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won major awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti. Goldsworthy began his writing life as a poet, as described in his 2013 comic memoir, ''His Stupid Boyhood'', and regards poetic principles as the basis of all his writing. The Australian expatriate writer Clive James comments that Goldsworthy's poetry is often seen as a sideline, but argues that it is "at the centre of his achievement". James writes:His precise wit operates on every level, from the sonic (a concealed dove really does say hidden here, hidden here) to the conceptual (the human body really is packed tight like an attempt on the record of filling a Mini). The general impression is of a fastidious insistence that the particular comes first, and any general comment that follows had better be particular too. Life Goldsworthy was born in Minlaton, South Australia, and grew up in various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Scott
Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Biography Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a white mother and an Aboriginal father. Scott has written five novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies. He began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English. His teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal. He spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his family's history. His first novel, ''True Country'', was published in 1993 with an edition published in a French translation in 2005. His second novel, ''Benang'', won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1999, the Miles Franklin Award 2000, and the Kate Challis RAKA Award 2001. Both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Sunday
''Lord Sunday'' is the seventh book concluding Garth Nix's ''The Keys to the Kingdom'' series. It tells the last part of the adventures of a boy named Arthur in his quest to take back a magical world. The book was released in Australia on 1 February 2010, the U.K. on 4 March 2010, and the U.S. on 16 March 2010. Plot Background Arthur Penhaligon is a young boy who has gotten involved with the 'House', a magical world. This world comprises seven parts, each containing a 'Key' (powerful magical objects) and a part of the 'Will' (a being that holds the wish of the absent 'Architect'), under control of a villainous 'Trustee'. Arthur is on a quest to defeat the 'Trustees' and fulfill the 'Will'. At the end of the preceding book, Trustee Saturday was invading the 'Incomparable Gardens', the domain of the seventh and last Trustee Sunday. Arthur was thrown off the edge of the Gardens, and meanwhile back on Earth a nuclear strike was occurring on his hometown. This book In his fall, Ar ... [...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] |
Melina Marchetta
Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, '' Looking for Alibrandi'', ''Saving Francesca'' and '' On the Jellicoe Road''. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For ''Jellicoe Road'' she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best book for young adults. Education and early work Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney on 25 March 1965. She is of Italian descent, a middle child with two sisters. Marchetta attended high school at Rosebank College in the Sydney suburb of Five Dock. She left school at age fifteen as she was not confident in her academic ability. She enrolled in a business school which helped her gain employment with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and later at a travel agency. This gave her confidence to return to study and gain a teaching degree from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug MacLeod (TV Writer)
Doug MacLeod (13 October 1959 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian writer of books, television and theatre. Television MacLeod was a working writer for ABC Radio's comedy department in the 1980s, before spending two years as head writer of Network Ten's ''The Comedy Company''. He was a writer on the sketch comedy programs ''Fast Forward'' and '' Full Frontal''. He was the script editor of ''Kath & Kim'' while the series aired on the ABC. As a break from sketch comedy he co-wrote five episodes of ''SeaChange'' with Andrew Knight. He co-wrote the animated children's series '' Dogstar'' which won him the inaugural John Hinde prize for science fiction in 2008. He also worked on series two in 2011 with co-writer Philip Dalkin. In 2008 MacLeod won the Fred Parsons Award for Contribution to Australian Comedy at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards. Theatre MacLeod was the writer of '' Call Girl the Musical'', with Tracy Harvey which performed two seasons in Melbourne. With John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noni The Pony
''Noni the Pony'' is a 2010 children's picture book by Alison Lester. It is about a day with a friendly, caring pony called Noni and her friends, Dave dog, and Coco the cat. Publication history *2010, Australia, Allen & Unwin *2012, USA, Beach Lane Books Reception ''Booklist'' wrote, in a review of ''Noni the Pony'', "The graphic art, with its soft, round shapes and soothing, textured background colors, will appeal to small children, as will the cheery couplets." and ''Kirkus Reviews'' described Noni as "the perfect pony for preschoolers", and Lester's illustrations as "droll". ''Noni the Pony'' has also been reviewed by ''The New York Times'', ''School Library Journal'', '' Horn Book Guide Reviews'', Books+Publishing, ''Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Lester
Alison Jean Lester (born 17 November 1952) is an Australian author and illustrator who has published over 25 children's picture books and two young adult novels; ''The Quickstand Pony'' and ''The Snow Pony''. In 2005 Lester won the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year for her children's book, ''Are We There Yet?: A Journey around Australia''. Her books have been published worldwide. Early years and education Alison Lester was born in Foster, Victoria, Australia. She grew up on a farm overlooking the sea. She was educated at St Margaret's School in Berwick, Victoria, where she stayed as a boarder.AusLit: Alison Lester accessed: 26-10-2015) She achieved a higher diploma in teaching at The [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca James (author)
Rebecca James (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is a writer of young adult fiction. Biography Rebecca spent her early twenties working as a waitress, her late twenties teaching English in Indonesia and Japan, and most of her thirties having babies and working as a kitchen designer. She has started several university degrees but has yet to place any letters after her name. Despite her highly developed procrastinatory skills she has somehow managed to finish writing a book or two - and plans to spend her forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties finishing several more. She lives in Australia with her partner and their five children. Novels * ''Beautiful Malice'', published by Bantam Books in 2010. *''Sweet Damage,'' published by Allen & Unwin in 2013. *''Cooper Bartholomew is Dead'', published by Allen & Unwin in 2014.http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/trade-profiles/116005-aussie-rules.html *''The Woman in the Mirror'', published by HarperCollins H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Count Goats!
''Let's Count Goats!'' is a 2010 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Jan Thomas. It is a counting book with the narrator inviting the reader to count goats that appear in the pictures as they engage in humanlike behaviour. Reception In a review of ''Let's Count Goats!'', ''School Library Journal'' wrote "Fox and Thomas draw viewers in through catchy phrases and amusing pictures of goats that appear in a variety of shapes, sizes, and numbers", and called it "a clever counting lesson". ''Let's Count Goats!'' has also been reviewed by ''Kirkus Reviews'', ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Booklist ''Booklist'' is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. ''Booklist''s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and booksellers. The magazine is av ...'', '' Horn Book Guides'', and ''Magpies''. References External links Library holdings of ''Let's Count Goats!'' Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mem Fox
Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox, AM (born Merrion Frances Partridge; 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but she still gives seminars and lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Career In 1981, while working in drama, Fox decided to retrain in literacy studies. She said: "Literacy has become the great focus of my life – it's my passion, my battle and my mission and my exhaustion." She has published books on literacy aimed at children, their parents, teachers and educators. She held the position of Associate Professor, Literacy Studies, in the School of Education at Flinders University until her retirement in 1996. Since her retirement from teaching, Fox travels around the world visiting many countries and doing presentations and speaking on children's books and literacy issues. Following an interrogation by US immigration officials on a trip in February 2017 to deliver a key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Adornetto
Alexandra Adornetto is an Australian actress and author who writes for children and young adults. Her works include The Strangest Adventures series, the Halo trilogy and The Ghost House Saga. Books Adornetto's completed books are ''The Shadow Thief'' (2007) and ''The Lampo Circus'' (2008), ''Von Gobstopper's Arcade'' (2009), ''Halo'' (2010), ''Hades'' (2011), ''Heaven'' (2012) and ''Ghost House'' (2014). The Strangest Adventures This fantasy adventures series has a theme of threat to childhood and innocence. Adornetto commented, "Childhood is just this amazing place and in my books I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded." The Shadow Thief The main characters of ''Shadow Thief'' are Millipop Klompet and Ernest Perriclof, who live in Drabville – a town whose residents suffer from having their shadows stolen by Lord Aldor, who wants to use the shadows to become immortal, all-powerful and rule the world. According to Adornetto, "The shadow represents indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
