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2014 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014. Major publications Literary fiction * Belinda Alexandra - '' Sapphire Skies'' * Emily Bitto – ''The Strays'' * Peter Carey – ''Amnesia'' * Elizabeth Harrower – ''In Certain Circles'' * Sonya Hartnett – '' Golden Boys'' * Janette Turner Hospital – ''The Claimant'' * Wendy James – ''The Lost Girls'' * Sofie Laguna – ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * Joan London – '' The Golden Age'' * Suzanne McCourt – ''The Lost Child'' * Gerald Murnane – ''A Million Windows'' * Omar Musa – ''Here Come the Dogs'' * Favel Parrett – ''When the Night Comes'' * Christine Piper – '' After Darkness'' * Craig Sherborne – ''Tree Palace'' * Inga Simpson – ''Nest'' * Graeme Simsion – ''The Rosie Effect'' * Rohan Wilson – ''To Name Those Lost'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Trace Balla – ''Rivertime'' * Karen Foxlee – ''Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy'' * Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapphire Skies
''Sapphire Skies'' is a 2014 historical romance by Belinda Alexandra. It is about Lily, an Australian working in Moscow, who discovers the story behind Natasha Azarova, a night witch who disappeared during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... Publication history *2014, Australia, HarperCollins *2015, United Kingdom, Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster Ltd Reception A reviewer for the ''Historical Novel Society#Publications, Historical Novels Review'' wrote "This is a fascinating tale about the Soviet female pilots dubbed the “Night Witches” by the Germans and the horrific post-war years under Stalin’s iron fist that are rarely the topic of popular fiction.". ''Sapphire Skies'' has also been reviewed by ''Good Reading'' magazine. References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Piper
Christine Piper is an Australian author and editor. Her first novel, ''After Darkness'', won the 2014 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She won the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay for "Unearthing the Past". Biography Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother. Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father's work (her sister was born in Tokyo). She moved to Australia when she was one, and was raised and educated in Sydney. She has lived in Japan several times, teaching English and studying Japanese, most recently in 2010. She has also lived in the US for an extended period; the first of her two children was born in New York. Piper attended Cheltenham Girls High School where she excelled at English and Visual Arts. She placed seventh in NSW in her final exams for the 1997 Higher School Certificate in Visual Arts. She went on to study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Girl (Kwaymullina Book)
''The Lost Girl'' is a 2014 Children's picture book written by Ambelin Kwaymullina, and illustrated by Leanne Tobin. It is about an Aboriginal girl who wanders away from her mob but is then looked after, and returned, by Mother Nature. Reception A review in ''Education'' described ''The Lost Girl'' as "an empowering voice for young Indigenous girls". A reviewer for '' Reading Time'' noted that "...she waymullinais still teaching us by telling a story about respect for the environment, having courage and finding our way home to our elders.", and "It is Leanne Tobin’s first picture book, beautifully created and designed it showcases the landscape and imparts a strong sense of place.". ''The Lost Girl'' has also been reviewed by '' The Conversation'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''Magpies'', ''Australian Book Review'', and ''Books+Publishing''. Awards *2015 Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration The CBCA Award for New Illustrator (previously Crichton Award for Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Ambelin Kwaymullina (born 1975 in Perth, Western Australia) is a Palyku novelist, illustrator, and assistant professor of law at the University of Western Australia. She was born as the eldest of three children to Sally Morgan, an author and artist, and Paul Morgan, a teacher. She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1998 with a Bachelor of Laws with honours. Kwaymullina's academic research focuses on both public law, and on Indigenous peoples and the law. Her works of fiction include both young adult science fiction novels and children's picture books. Bibliography Academic *"Indigenous Holistic Logic: Aspects, Consequences and Applications", (with Blaze Kwaymullina), ''Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues'', Volume 17, Number 2, June 2014. Living Texts: A Perspective on Published Sources, (with Blaze Kwaymullina, B and Lauren Butterly) ''Indigenous Research Methodologies and Indigenous Worldviews, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies'', Vol ... [...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] |
Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 1954) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel ''The Three-Pronged Dagger''. Early life and education Greenwood grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, where she still lives today. She attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School), Maribyrnong College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979. Whilst at university, Greenwood worked at a women's refuge. Career In 1982, Greenwood was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction.Morris Gleitzman AustLit He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel '' Two Weeks with the Queen'' (1990). Gleitzman has co-written many children's series with another Australian children's author, Paul Jennings. One of Gleitzman and Jennings' collaborations, the ''Wicked!'' book series, was ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Foxlee
Karen Foxlee (born 1971) is an Australian novelist. Life and career After training and working as a nurse for most of her adult life, she graduated from the University of the Sunshine Coast with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005, in creative writing. Her first novel ''The Anatomy of Wings'' was originally published in 2008, by the University of Queensland Press, and has since been published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Awards and nominations * 2006: Queensland Premier's Literary Award (Best emerging author) * 2008: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best First Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific Region) for ''The Anatomy of Wings'' * 2008: Dobbie Encouragement Award for ''The Anatomy of Wings'' * 2014: Davitt Award for ''The Midnight Dress'' * 2019: Griffith University Young Adult Book Award for ''Lenny’s Book of Everything'' *2020: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature for ''Lenny's Book of Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trace Balla
Trace may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995 * ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993 * Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band * ''The Trace'' (album) Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Trace'' (magazine), British hip-hop magazine * ''Trace'' (manhwa), a Korean internet cartoon * ''Trace'' (novel), a novel by Patricia Cornwell * ''The Trace'' (film), a 1994 Turkish film * ''The Trace'' (video game), 2015 video game * ''Sama'' (film), alternate title ''The Trace'', a 1988 Tunisian film * Trace, a fictional character in the game ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' * Trace, the protagonist of ''Axiom Verge'' * Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga ''One Piece'' * TRACE, the main brand for a number of music channels such as Trace Urban Language * Trace (deconstruction), a concept in Derridian deconstruction * Trace (linguistics), a syntactic placeholder resulting from a transformation * TRACE (psycho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohan Wilson
Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, where he currently lives. He holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. In 2003 he travelled to Japan, where he worked as an English teacher for several years. On returning to Australia with his wife and child, he completed his thesis, ''The Roving Party : Extinction Discourse in the Literature of Tasmania'' for his Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne. His first novel, ''The Roving Party'', won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) in 2011 and was subsequently shortlisted for a number of Australian literary awards. His second novel, ''To Name Those Lost'', won the author the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. His third novel, ''Daughter of Bad Times'', was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards' Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Simsion
Graeme C. Simsion (born 1956) is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller. Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book ''Data Modelling Essentials,'' and worked in wine distribution. Literary career Don Tillman novels In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book ''The Rosie Project''. The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014. It has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote ''The Rosie Project'' as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was published on 24 September 2014. The third and final book, '' The Rosie Result'', was published in February 2019. Other novels Simsion's third novel, ''The Best of Adam Sharp'' was published by Text Publishing in 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |