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2019 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019. Major publications Literary fiction * Debra Adelaide, ''Zebra and other stories'' *Tony Birch, ''The White Girl'' * David Brooks, ''The Grass Library'' *Steven Carroll, ''The Year of the Beast'' *Melanie Cheng, ''Room for a Stranger'' *Peggy Frew, ''Islands'' *Peter Goldsworthy, ''Minotaur'' * John Hughes, ''No One'' *Anna Krien, ''Act of Grace'' * Vicki Laveau-Harvie, ''The Erratics'' *Melina Marchetta, ''The Place on Dalhousie'' *Andrew McGahan, ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) *Gerald Murnane, ''A Season on Earth'' *Favel Parrett, ''There Was Still Love'' *Heather Rose, ''Bruny'' * Philip Slalom, ''The Returns'' *Carrie Tiffany, ''Exploded View'' *Lucy Treloar, ''Wolfe Island'' *Christos Tsiolkas, ''Damascus'' *Tara June Winch, ''The Yield'' *Charlotte Wood, ''The Weekend'' Short stories * Josephine Rowe, ''Here Until August'' Children's and young adult fiction * Mem Fox, '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Adelaide
Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. Biography Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire. A contemporary of writers Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, she attended Gymea High School and then via a teacher's scholarship, she completed a BA (Honours) and MA (Honours) in English literature at the University of Sydney. She then completed a PhD in Australian women’s literature in 1991, and in the process completed her first book, a bibliography of Australian women's literature. While studying, Debra Adelaide worked as a university tutor and research assistant, and afterwards became a freelance editor, author and book reviewer. She commenced writing fiction in the early 1990s and her first novel, ''The Hotel Albatross'', was published in 1995. She was married until 2003 and has three children, Joe (b 1989), Ellen (b 1992) and Callan (b 1997). She is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist. Her first novel, ''Salt Creek'', won the 2016 Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Award and the 2016 Walter Scott Prize. Her second novel, ''Wolfe Island'', won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020. Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria. She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ... and a diploma of professional writing and editing from RMIT University. In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Moss
Tara Rae Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival. Biography Moss was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43. Moss began modelling at age 14, but did not stay long in the profession. At age 21, as detailed in her 2014 memoir ''The Fictional Woman'', she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor. After marriages to the Canadian Martin Legge and to the Australian actor Mark Pennell,"Tara Moss gathers husband No.3" ''The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Daily Telegraph'', 8 December 2009 she married Australia ... [...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] |
Matthew Condon
Matthew Condon (born 1962) is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist. Biography Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany, he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including ''The Lulu Magnet'', ''A Night at the Pink Poodle'', ''The Motorcycle Cafe'', and ''The Pillow Fight''. ''The Trout Opera'', an epic novel that took him more than ten years to write, examines the Australian character through its chief protagonist Wilfred Lampe, a rabbiter and farm hand who spends his entire life in the township of Dalgety, on the banks of the Snowy River. The Sydney Daily Telegraph described the novel as "an instant classic". In 2013, Condon published ''Three Crooked Kings'', the first part of a biography of former Queensland Police Commissioner Terry Lewis who was charged in 1989 and later jailed on multiple corruption charges. The book was based on Condon's extensive interviews with Lewis and others as well as arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikki Wakefield
Vikki Wakefield (born 1970) is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction. Career After a career working in banking, journalism and graphic design, Wakefield studied at TAFE and began writing. Her first book, ''All I Ever Wanted'', was published in 2011 and won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the same year. Two years later her second book, ''Friday Brown'', won the same prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction. In 2016 her third book, ''Inbetween Days'', was an honour book in the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. Wakefield's fourth book, ''Ballad for a Mad Girl'', won the 2018 Davitt Award for best young adult novel and was shortlisted for other awards. ''This is How We Change the Ending'', her fifth novel won the 2020 Children's Book of the Year A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Since August 2020, he has been Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. Pascoe is best known for his work '' Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?'' (2014), in which he argues that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples engaged in agriculture, engineering and permanent building construction, and that their practices provide possible models for future sustainable development in Australia. Early life and education Pascoe was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1947. He grew up in a poor working-class family; his father, Alf, was a carpenter, and his mother, Gloria Pascoe, went on to win a gold medal in lawn bowls at the 1980 Arnhem Paralympics. Pascoe spent his early years on King Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg McKinlay
Meg McKinlay is a Western Australian writer. She has written a number of books for children and young adults, including ''How to Make a Bird'' and ''A Single Stone''. She has won two Prime Minister's Literary Awards and three Crystal Kite Awards. Biography Born Megan McKinlay, she spent her childhood in Bendigo, Victoria. During high school she was an exchange student in Japan. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2001 for her thesis "Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985". She subsequently lectured at UWA in Australian literature, Japanese and creative writing and, was a honorary research associate of that university. In 2010 she won a residency in Japan and in 2020 she won a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship. As well as writing for children and young adults, she has published one book of poetry, ''Cleanskin''. As of 2021 McKinlay lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. Awards * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania McCartney
Tania McCartney (born 1968) is an Australian author, illustrator, editor and designer. Biography She is perhaps most known for over 65 books for children. She has also written books for adults. McCartney hosts a podcast called The Happy Book. She is the founder of a book review website, Kids' Book Review. She also founded the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, a Facebook group with thousands of members, which ran from 2014-2018. She has written for various publications, including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' ''Tickle the Imagination'', ''Australian Women Onlin''e, and '' Beijing Kids''. Selected works * ''Australian Story: An Illustrated Timeline''. National Library of Australia, 2012. * ''This is Captain Cook''. Christina Booth, illustrator. National Library of Australia, 2015. * ''Peas in a Pod''. EK Books, 2015. * ''Smile Cry''. EK Books, 2016. * ''Australia Illustrated''. EK Books, 2016. * ''See Hear''. EK Books, 2018. * ''Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Kostakis
William Kostakis (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian author and journalist. In high school, he won the '' Sydney Morning Herald'' Young Writer of the Year prize for a short story called 'Bing Me'. He went on to sign his first book deal in his final year of high school. Works Young adult novels * ''Loathing Lola'' (2008) * ''The First Third'' (2013) * ''The Sidekicks'' (2016) * ''Monuments'' (2019) * ''Rebel Gods'' (2020) * ''The Greatest Hit'' (2020) * ''We Could Be Something '' (2023) Chapter books * ''Stuff Happens: Sean'' (2014) Short stories * 'Bing Me' (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005) * 'An Alternate Life' (''The Star Observer'', 2016) * 'The Bounce Back' (''The Star Observer'', 2016) * 'Hatchet' (''The Book That Made Me'', 2016) * 'I Can See The Ending' (''Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology'', 2017) Young adult novels Loathing Lola (2008) His first novel for young adults, ''Loathing Lola'', was released in August 2008 through Pan Macmillan under his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tiny Star
''The Tiny Star'' is a 2019 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Freya Blackwood. It is about a star falling to Earth, turning into a baby, living a loving fulfilling life, dying, than returning to the heavens as a star. Development According to Fox, it took her five years to write. Publication history * 2021, US, Alfred A. Knopf * 2019, Australia, Puffin Books Reception A reviewer for the '' Reading Time'' wrote "''The Tiny Star'' is a valuable, uplifting and poignant story for the young to make sense of, and find comfort in, heartbreaking loss", and recommended it as a best book of the year. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it a "meditation". ''The Tiny Star'' has also been reviewed by ''Kirkus Reviews'', ''Books+Publishing'', and StoryLinks. Awards * 2020 Booksellers' Choice Children's book of the year shortlist * 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards Children's Picture Book of the Year shortlist * 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards ... [...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] |
