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2016 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016. Major publications Literary fiction * Melissa Ashley – ''The Birdman's Wife'' * Georgia Blain – ''Between a Wolf and a Dog'' *Hannah Kent – ''The Good People'' * Heather Rose – '' The Museum of Modern Love'' *Josephine Wilson – ''Extinctions'' Children's and young adult fiction * Trace Balla – ''Rockhopping'' * Maxine Beneba Clarke – ''The Patchwork Bike'' * Andy Griffiths – ''The Tree House Fun Book'' and ''The 78-Storey Treehouse'' * Zana Fraillon – ''The Bone Sparrow'' * Tania McCartney – ''Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings'' *Shivaun Plozza – ''Frankie'' * Richard Roxburgh – ''Artie and the Grime Wave'' * Shaun Tan – ''Tales from Outer Suburbia'' * Claire Zorn – ''One Would Think the Deep'' Crime * Jane Harper – '' The Dry'' * David Whish-Wilson – ''Old Scores'' Science fiction and fantasy * Juliet Marillier – ''Den of Wolve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Ashley
Melissa Ashley (born 1973) is an Australian novelist. In the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her novel ''The Birdman's Wife'' won the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. It also received the Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen BookData 2017 Booksellers Choice Award. Biography Ashley was born 1973 in Christchurch, New Zealand and arrived in Australia aged eight. Ashley has two children and is a self-confessed committed "twitcher". Ashley's interest in birds motivated her 2016 historical novel ''The Birdman's Wife'', about Elizabeth Gould who illustrated and drew specimens of birds for her husband John Gould's various books on birds. Ashley wrote the novel as part of her PhD whilst studying at the University of Queensland. ''The Bee and the Orange Tree'' was shortlisted for the 2020 Davitt Award for best debut crime book. At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Harper
Jane Harper (born 1980) is a British–Australian author known for her crime novels '' The Dry'', ''Force of Nature'' and ''The Lost Man'', all set in rural Australia. Early life Born in Manchester in the UK, Harper moved to Australia with her family when she was eight. There, she lived in the outer Melbourne suburb of Boronia, and eventually acquired Australian citizenship. As a teen, Harper returned to the UK with her family and resided in Hampshire. Later, she attended the University of Kent and studied English. After spending time working on her career, she moved back to Australia. Career After graduating with a degree in English and history, Harper gained an entry-level journalism qualification. She got her first job as a trainee at the ''Darlington & Stockton Times'' in County Durham. Later she was a senior news journalist for the '' Hull Daily Mail''. In 2008 she returned to Australia to take up a reporting job at the ''Geelong Advertiser'', then in 2011 became a journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Grant (journalist)
Stan Grant (born 30 September 1963) is an Australian journalist, writer and radio and television presenter, since the 1990s. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man. Early years Grant was born on 30 September 1963 in Griffith, New South Wales, the son of Stan Grant Sr, an elder of the Wiradjuri people and Betty Grant (nee Cameron), born near Coonabarabran, the daughter of a white woman and an Kamilaroi Aboriginal man. The Wiradjuri are an Aboriginal Australian people from the south-west inland region of New South Wales. He spent much of his childhood in inner Victoria where the Wiradjuri also have roots. Career Journalism Grant has more than 30 years of experience working in broadcast radio and television news and current affairs. He spent several years as a news presenter on the Australian Macquarie Radio Network, Seven, SBS, along with a long-term stint at CNN International as a Senior International Correspondent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Falkiner
Suzanne Falkiner (born 1952) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Sydney, Falkiner grew up in western New South Wales. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and later completed postgraduate courses in fiction, non-fiction and editing at Columbia University. In 2005 she was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts by the University of Technology, Sydney. After travelling extensively and working in various publishing and editing positions, she currently lives in Sydney and works as a full-time writer. Bibliography Fiction * ''Rain in the Distance'' (1986) novel * ''After the Great Novelist'' (1989) travel stories Non-fiction * ''Australian Aborigines: Shadows in a Landscape'' 1979 (with photographs by Laurence Le Guay): an essay on Aboriginal Australia * ''Australians Today'' 1985 (with photographs by Lorrie Graham): a portrait of multicultural Australia * ''Eugenia: A Man'' (1988) biography: the story of Eugenia Falleni, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Colvin
Mark Colvin (13 March 1952 – 11 May 2017) was an Australian journalist and radio and television broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and worked on most of the flagship current affairs programs. Notably, based in Sydney, he was the presenter of '' PM''— the radio current affairs program on the ABC Radio network — from 1997 to 2017. Biography Career as a journalist and broadcaster Colvin graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English literature and arrived in Australia in 1974. With no clear career ambitions and failing as a builder's labourer, being susceptible to heat stroke in the strong Australian sun, the dole office steered him toward journalism. In that year he commenced a traineeship with the ABC but had doubts during the year that he would stick with journalism. Nevertheless, in January 1975 he commenced at the ABC's rock music station Double Jay (2JJ, now known as Triple J) as one of the foundation staff, initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Working Class Boy (memoir)
''Working Class Boy'' is a 2016 memoir by Jimmy Barnes. It is about Barnes' childhood in Glasgow and Adelaide. Barnes details his childhood in Glasgow up until him joining Cold Chisel. '' Working Class Boy'' has sold more than 250,000 copies and was named the Biography of the Year at 2017 ABIA Awards. Reception ''Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...'' magazine in a review of ''Working Class Boy'' wrote "Barnes writes with verve and style to present a fascinating story of flawed and compelling personalities, not least his own. The result is unexpectedly compelling." It debuted at number 1 on the Australian bestsellers list, and remained in the top 10 for a number of weeks. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Working Class Boy 2016 non-fiction books Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon "Jimmy" Barnes (née Swan; born 28 April 1956) is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. Barnes has achieved 15 solo number one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. Additionally Barnes achieved 5 more as lead singer of Cold Chisel, bringing his combined sum to 20 number one albums in Australia, comfortably eclipsing the Beatles (with 14), Madonna (12), Eminem and U2 (11). Early life Barnes was born James Dixon Swan in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow, the son of Dorothy and Jim Swan. His father was a prizefighter. His maternal grandmother was Jewish, but he was raised Protestant. He called his childhood environment a "slum" of alcohol and violence, saying that his mother had him and his four siblings (John, Dorothy, Linda, and Alan) before she was 21. His older brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Baird
Julia Baird (née Dykins; born 5 March 1947) is a British retired teacher and author. She is the younger half-sister of English musician John Lennon, and is the eldest daughter of his mother Julia Lennon and John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins. She also has an older half-sister, Ingrid Pedersen. Her younger sister is Jacqueline 'Jackie' Dykins (born 26 October 1949). Lennon started visiting the Dykins' house in 1951. After the death of Julia Lennon in 1958, Harriet and Norman Birch were appointed guardians of Julia and Jackie, ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married their mother. Lennon invited the Dykins sisters to visit after the success of the Beatles, when he was living in Kenwood, Weybridge, with his then-wife, Cynthia Lennon. Julia Dykins (Baird) married Allen Baird in 1968 and moved to Belfast. They had three children together but were divorced in 1981. Baird worked as a special needs teacher, and after Lennon's death she wrote ''John Lennon, My Brother'' (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deng Thiak Adut
Deng Thiak Adut (born ) is a defence lawyer and refugee advocate in Western Sydney, Australia, and a former child soldier from South Sudan. His story is told in a popular short video by Western Sydney University, where he earned his law degree. He was named the 2017 New South Wales Australian of the Year. Early life Adut was born around 1983 near Malek, a small fishing village in South Sudan near White Nile River. He is a member of the Dinka people. One of eight children, he had a happy early childhood spent with his family at their banana farm. At the age of around six or seven, Adut was taken from his mother and marched for 33 days to Ethiopia along with 30 other child conscripts. During the march, some boys died of starvation or thirst, others were shot by bandits, and others attacked by wild animals. The boys were forced to fight for the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the Second Sudanese Civil War. They were brainwashed and given daily doses of khat, a herbal s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Varga
Susan Varga is an Australian writer and philanthropist who was born in Hungary in 1943. Biography Susan Varga is one of the "most accomplished of Australia's second-generation, post-Holocaust autobiographers". Susan Varga is a Holocaust survivor who came to Australia at the age of five with her mother, stepfather and sister in 1948. Her biological father died in a Nazi Labour camp during the German occupation of Hungary in WWII. After the war her mother married a survivor who had lost his wife and two sons at Auschwitz. The family emigrated to Australia in 1949. Varga's stepfather was a successful businessman who started in the clothing business in Sydney. Married and divorced, Varga lived with her partner and writer Anne Coombs in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Anne Coombs died 23 December 2021 Varga has written fiction, non-fiction and articles for newspapers and magazines. Education Varga obtained a MA from the University of Sydney and later a law degree from the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kinsella (poet)
John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor. His writing is strongly influenced by landscape, and he espouses an 'international regionalism' in his approach to place. He has also frequently worked in collaboration with other writers, artists and musicians. Early life and work Kinsella was born in Perth, Western Australia. His mother was a poet and he began writing poetry as a child. He cites Judith Wright among his early influences. Before becoming a full-time writer, teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places, including laboratories, a fertiliser factory and on farms. Later poetry and writing Kinsella has published over thirty books and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, and the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as ''Stand'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Rubinstein
Gillian Rubinstein (born 29 August 1942) is an English-born children's author and playwright. Born in Potten End, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Rubinstein split her childhood between England and Nigeria, moving to Australia in 1973. As well as eight plays, numerous short stories and articles, she has written over 30 books. Her award-winning and hugely popular 1986 debut '' Space Demons'' introduced the themes of growing up and fantasy worlds which emerge often in her other writings. Books such as ''At Ardilla'', ''Foxspell'' and '' Galax-Arena'' all received critical acclaim and multiple awards. In 2001, Rubinstein published ''Across the Nightingale Floor'', the first of the best-selling three-book series ''Tales of the Otori'' series under the pseudonym Lian Hearn. The series is set in a fictional island nation resembling feudal Japan and is her first work to reach an adult audience. The name 'Lian', comes from a childhood nickname and 'Hearn' apparently refers to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
