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2015 In Australian Literature
This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Ghost River'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''The Secret Chord'' * Stephen Daisley – ''Coming Rain'' * Gregory Day – ''Archipelago of Souls'' * Peggy Frew – ''Hope Farm'' * Susan Johnson – ''The Landing'' * Gail Jones – ''A Guide to Berlin'' * Myfanwy Jones – ''Leap'' * Mireille Juchau – ''The World Without Us'' * Malcolm Knox – ''The Wonder Lover'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''A Short History of Richard Kline'' * A. S. Patrić – '' Black Rock White City'' * Steve Toltz – ''Quicksand'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Salt Creek'' * Charlotte Wood – '' The Natural Way of Things'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Nick Earls – ''New Boy'' * Mem Fox – '' This & That'' * Mem Fox – '' Nellie Belle'' * Andy Griffiths – ''The 65-Storey Treehouse'' * Maureen McCarthy – ''Stay With Me'' * Sophie Masson – ''Hunter's Moon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Birch
Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015. In 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. Early life and education Birch was born around 1957 and has grown up around Fitzroy, a working-class suburb of Melbourne considered a slum. After being expelled from school for the second time, he left school aged 15 and became a telegram boy on a bicycle. Career After spending a decade as a firefighter, Birch attended Melbourne university as a mature student when he was 30 years old. In 2003 he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal for the best PhD in Arts. Birch has appeared on ABC radio on ... [...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] |
Candice Fox
Candice Fox (born 1985) is an Australian novelist who won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel for ''Hades''. She was born in the western suburbs of Sydney into a large family. She spent a brief period in the Royal Australian Navy before studying and teaching at university level. In 2015, Candice started collaborating on a series of novels with bestselling author James Patterson. Bibliography Novels * ''The Inn'' (2019) (collaboration with James Patterson) * ''2 Sisters Detective Agency'' (2021) (collaboration with James Patterson) * ''Gathering Dark'' (2020) * ''The Chase'' (2021) * ''Fire With Fire'' (2023) Archer and Bennett * ''Hades'' (2014) * '' Eden'' (2014) * ''Fall'' (2015) Detective Harriet Blue * '' Never Never'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2016) * ''Fifty Fifty'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2017) * ''Liar Liar'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2018) * ''Hush Hush'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2019) Crimson Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Dapin
Mark Dapin (born 1963) is an Australian journalist, author, historian and screenwriter. He is best known for his long-running column in ''Good Weekend'' magazine. Early life Mark Dapin was born in Britain and immigrated to Australia in 1989. Career Dapin was the founding chief sub-editor of the ''Australian Financial Review Magazine'' in 1995. From 1998 to 2002, he was editor and then editor-in-chief of ''Ralph'' magazine. He has written for a variety of publications including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''Penthouse'' and ''Good Weekend''. He has a Bachelor of Social Science degree and a Masters in Journalism from UTS and has taught journalism courses at the University of Sydney and Macleay College. In 2008, Dapin was thrown out of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s home when he was only minutes into a profile interview for ''Good Weekend'' magazine. The incident – and subsequent attempts by Ramsay’s publicists to control the story – for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Disher
Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. Awards *The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour" *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for '' The Bamboo Flute'' *IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for '' The Bamboo Flute'' *NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for '' The Sunken Road'' *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for '' The Divine Wind'' *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for '' The Divine Wind'' *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for '' The Divine Wind'' *Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Corris
Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing", particularly for his Cliff Hardy novels. Biography Corris' secondary school education was at Melbourne High School. He was a Bachelor level student at the University of Melbourne, then gained a Master of Arts in history at Monash University. He studied at the Australian National University where he was awarded a PhD in history on the topic of the South Seas Islander slave trade (Kanakas). He continued these studies as a university lecturer, but later became a journalist, and then a full-time writer. He was married to writer Jean Bedford. Peter Corris wrote a book that provided deep insights into his life living with type-1 diabetes. Some of his novels have diabetic subplots. In January 2017, Corris announced that he would no lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Wood (writer)
Fiona Anna Wood is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. She is a three-time winner of the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers award. Career Fiona Wood is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. She worked for 12 years as a scriptwriter for television series, including episodes of '' Neighbours'', '' Home and Away'' and '' MDA,'' before her first novel, ''Six Impossible Things'', was published in 2010. Works * * * * Awards and recognition * ''Six Impossible Things'' ** Winner, Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction, 2008 ** Shortlisted, CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2011 ** Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2014 ** Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2016 * ''Wildlife'' ** Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Wilkinson
Lili Wilkinson (born 7 April 1981) is an Australian author. She has also written for several publications, including The Age, and manageinsideadog.com.au a website for teenagers about books, as part of her role at the Centre For Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria until January 2011. Early life Wilkinson was born in Melbourne, the daughter of children's author, Carole Wilkinson, and film and television sound recordist, John Wilkinson. She attendeSpensley Street Primary Schooland Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, and has referred to her high school self as "a bit of a nerd". Heavily involved in drama, in Year 7 she played Aphrodite in a musical version of The Odyssey. Influences Wilkinson has spoken of her love for the work of Diana Wynne Jones, David Almond and Lewis Carroll in interviews. She has also revealed that Shaun Tan is her favourite illustrator. She has been quoted as saying: "My favourite books would be ''Fire and Hemlock'' by Diana Wynne Jones and ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Rodda
Jennifer June Rowe, (born 4 April 1948), is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson. She is well known for the children's fantasy series '' Deltora Quest'', '' Rowan of Rin'', '' Fairy Realm'', ''Teen Power Inc.'', the ''Rondo'' trilogy and '' The Three Doors'' trilogy, and her latest ''His Name Was Walter''. Biography Jennifer Rowe was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 April 1948, and raised with two younger brothers in Sydney's North Shore. Her father was Jim Oswin, the founding general manager of ATN7 in Sydney, and was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as ''My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?'' and ''The Mavis Bramston Show''. She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the Upper North Shore of Sydney. She attained her Masters of Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Nowra
Mark Doyle, better known by his stage name Louis Nowra, (born 12 December 1950) is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights. His works have been performed by all of Australia's major theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Belvoir, and many others, and have also had many international productions. His most significant plays are ''Così'', ''Radiance'' (both of which he turned into films), ''Byzantine Flowers'', ''Summer of the Aliens'' and '' The Golden Age''. In 2006 he completed ''The Boyce Trilogy'' for Griffin Theatre Company, consisting of '' The Woman with Dog's Eyes'', '' The Marvellous Boy'' and '' The Emperor of Sydney''. His 2009 novel ''Ice'' was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. His script for 1996 movie ''Cosi'', which revolves around a group of mentally ill patients w ... [...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] |
Sophie Masson
Sophie Masson is a French-Australian fantasy and children's author. Early life and education Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia of French parents who are of mixed ancestry (French, Basque, Spanish and Portuguese). Masson, the third in a family of seven children, came to Australia at the age of five and spent most of the rest of her childhood shuttling back and forth between Australia and France. Career Her first two novels, one for adults entitled ''The House in the Rainforest''; the second, for children, called ''Fire in the Sky'', were published in Australia in 1990. Having written forty books, for children, young adults and adults, she is now published in the UK, United States, Thailand, France, Indonesia, Poland, Turkey, China, Korea and Germany as well as Australia. Many of her novels are in the fantasy genre, but she has also written realistic fiction, as well as crime, mystery and romance. She has also had many short stories, essays, articles and reviews published, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |