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2011 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011. Events *Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe *Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts *Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading *Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day * Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011 *Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club *Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund * Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter FitzSimons
Peter John Allen FitzSimons (born 29 June 1961) is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and has been the chair of the Australian Republic Movement since 2015. Early life FitzSimons grew up in Peats Ridge, in the Central Coast of New South Wales. He was one of seven children. He attended Peats Ridge Public School and Knox Grammar School before going in 1978 to Findlay High School, Ohio, for a year as an exchange student on an American Field Service Scholarship. He then completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney, residing at Wesley College from 1980 to 1982. Career Rugby FitzSimons first played club rugby with the Sydney University Football Club and then with the Manly RUFC in Sydney in the 1980s under the coaching of Alan Jones. Between 1985 and 1989 he played with CA Brive in France for four seasons as the club's first foreign player. He played seven test matches at lock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Thornhill
''Sarah Thornhill'' (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kate Grenville. It is the sequel to the author's 2005 novel ''The Secret River''. It won the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Plot summary Sarah Thornhill is the last child born to William and Sal Thornhill, whose struggle to establish a new life in Australia was told in the author's novel ''The Secret River''. Sarah's mother is now dead and her father has re-married, who attempts to conceal and overcome her husband's convict past. But Sarah has a will of her own and falls in love with Jack Langland, a "half darkie", the product of a white father and an Aboriginal mother. Notes * Dedication: This novel is dedicated to the memory of Sophia Wiseman and Maryanne Wiseman, and their mother, 'Rugig'. * Epigraph: "It does not follow that because a mountain appears to take on different shapes from di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Sherborne
Craig Sherborne (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright and novelist. He was born in Sydney and attended Scots College there before studying drama in London. He lives in Melbourne. Awards * ''The Ones Out of Town'', 1989 winner Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play * ''Hoi Polloi'' 2006 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction * ''Hoi Polloi'' 2007 highly commended National Biography Award * ''Muck'' 2008 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction * ''Muck'' 2008 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Non-Fiction Book * ''The Amateur Science of Love'' 2011 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction * ''The Amateur Science of Love'' 2012 winner Melbourne Prize — Best Writing Award * ''The Amateur Science of Love'' 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman (born 7 May 1964) is an Australian author and barrister. He has written four novels (''Three Dollars'', '' Seven Types of Ambiguity'', ''The Street Sweeper'' and ''Maybe the Horse Will Talk''), one short story collection (''The Reasons I Won't Be Coming'') and a book for children. Life Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent. He studied law at Monash University in Melbourne, graduating in 1989. He was called to the Bar in 1997, but while working as a judge's associate in the early 1990s he started writing short stories. He lives in Melbourne. Writing career In 1994 he won ''The Age'' Short Story Award for "The Reasons I Won't Be Coming", a short story that later gave the title to his first collection of short stories, published in 1999. In 1998, his first novel, ''Three Dollars'', was published. It won ''The Age'' Book of the Year and the Betty Trask Prize. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past The Shallows
''Past the Shallows'' (2011) is a novel by Australian author Favel Parrett. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award. It has been published in Australia, the UK, the US, Germany and Italy. Past the Shallows has also been used as a prescribed text for HSC students. Plot summary ''Past the Shallows'' is a novel of the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. This is the story of three brothers growing up in a fractured and quite dysfunctional family on the wild coast of Tasmania. The consequences of their parents' choices shape their lives and ultimately bring tragedy to them all. Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat, Miles and his older brother, Joe explore the coast. Joe and Miles both love to surf, however Harry is afraid of the water. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favel Parrett
Favel Parrett (born 1974) is an Australian writer. Career Parrett's first novel, ''Past the Shallows'', was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2012 and also that year won the Dobbie Literary Prize and Newcomer of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. She was awarded the Antarctic Arts Fellowship, allowing her to travel to Antarctica to complete research for her second novel, ''When the Night Comes''. Her latest adult novel, ''There Was Still Love'', was published in September 2019 by Hachette Australia. Her first children’s book, ''Wandi'', was published in September 2021. It is a fictional retelling of the true story of a purebred Alpine dingo cub that survived being dropped by an eagle into the backyard of a home in the small town of Wandiligong, in Victoria’s alpine valleys, and later became the subject of a successful research and breeding program for the threatened species. Parrett also writes short stories, which have been published in journals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Light (novel)
''Cold Light'' is a 2011 novel by Australian novelist Frank Moorhouse which won the 2012 Queensland Literary Award. The novel forms the third part of the author's "Edith Trilogy", following ''Grand Days'' that was published in 1993, and ''Dark Palace'' that was published in 2000. Notes * Dedication: To David Elliott Gyger, OAM, editor, opera critic - my first mentor, who, when I was young, introduced me to all that is best in traditional American liberal values, arts, thought and manners - and much more. And to Owen Harris, professor, foreign affairs analyst, editor, ambassador, friend and advisor over many years and, together with his wife, Dorothy, charming dinner table companions. Reviews * ''The Monthly'' * ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Awards and nominations * 2012 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award * 2012 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award * 2012 winner Queensland Literary Award * 2013 longlisted International Dublin Literary Award * 2013 shortlisted New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Moorhouse
Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer. He won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States and also translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, and Swedish. Moorhouse is best known for having won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, ''Dark Palace''; which together with ''Grand Days'' and ''Cold Light'', form the "Edith Trilogy" – a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II. Early life Moorhouse was born in Nowra, New South Wales, the youngest of three boys, born to a New Zealand-born father, Frank Osborne Moorhouse, OAM, and mother, Purthanry Thanes Mary Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Laing (novel)
''Autumn Laing'' is a 2011 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. Awards and nominations * Winner, Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012 * Shortlisted, 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction * Shortlisted, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category) * Shortlisted, 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Fiction Award * Shortlisted, 2012 Queensland Literary Awards Reviews * Morag Fraser Morag Fraser is an Australian journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainl ..., 2011, 'A Space of Its Own Creation, Alex Miller's Indispensable New Novel', "Australian Book Review" accessed 1 July 2013. * Janine Burke, 2011, 'Autumn Laing by Alex Miller', "The Monthly accessed 1 July 2013. * Andrew Stephens, 2011, 'Leave It to Autumn', "The Age" accessed 1 July 2013. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller (born 27 December 1936) is an Australian novelist.Dixon, R, (Ed), 2012, 'The Novels of Alex Miller, An Introduction', Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for ''The Ancestor Game'' and in 2003 for '' Journey to the Stone Country''. He won the overall award for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for ''The Ancestor Game'' in 1993. He is twice winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for '' Conditions of Faith'' in 2001 and for ''Lovesong'' in 2011. In recognition of his impressive body of work and in particular for his novel ''Autumn Laing'' he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. Life Alex Miller was born in London to a Scottish father and Irish mother. After working as a farm labourer in Somerset he migrated alone to Australia at the age of 16. He worked as a ringer in Queensland and as a horse breaker in New Zealand before studying at night school to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foal's Bread
''Foal's Bread'' is a 2011 novel by Australian author Gillian Mears. It was the winner of the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, the Age Book of the Year for Fiction, the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award. Plot summary The main subject of the novel is the golden era of Australian show-jumping between the wars. Roley Nancarrow is the 1926 high jump record holder for New South Wales, and, while competing one day at a country show, is captivated by Noah Childs, a 14-year-old drover's daughter, who can coax tired old horses into extraordinary feats. Riding out in a storm one day, Nancarrow is struck by lightning. The novel examines his steady decline into paralysis from the lightning-strike and the effect this has on his horse-riding passion and relationship with Noah. Awards * 2011 winner Colin Roderick Award * 2012 winner Victorian Premier's Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Mears
Gillian Mears (21 July 1964 – 16 May 2016) was an Australian short story writer and novelist. Her books ''Ride a Cock Horse'' and ''The Grass Sister'' won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, in 1989 and 1996, respectively. ''The Mint Lawn'' won The Australian/Vogel Award. In 2003, ''A Map of the Gardens'' won the Steele Rudd Award. Life Mears was born at Lismore Base Hospital, and raised in Grafton, New South Wales where she was school dux of Grafton High School. She moved to Sydney to study at university, beginning a degree in archaeology at the University of Sydney having been inspired to pursue a career in archaeology after reading '' Gods, Graves and Scholars'' by C. W. Ceram. At the age of 18, she withdrew from the course, and instead completed a degree in communications at University of Technology, Sydney. She lived near Grafton, New South Wales. She died in May 2016 after living with multiple sclerosis for seventeen years. Bernadette Brennan has writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
