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2020 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020. Major publications Literary fiction *Patrick Allington, ''Rise & Shine'' *Robbie Arnott, ''The Rain Heron'' *James Bradley, ''Ghost Species'' *Trent Dalton, ''All Our Shimmering Skies'' *Jon Doust, ''Return Ticket'' * Chris Flynn, ''Mammoth'' *Anna Goldsworthy, ''Melting Moments'' *Kate Grenville, ''A Room Made of Leaves'' *Tom Keneally, ''The Dickens Boy'' *Sofie Laguna, ''Infinite Splendours'' * Bem Le Hunte, ''Elephants with Headlights'' *Carol Lefevre, ''Murmurations'' *Amanda Lohrey, ''The Labyrinth'' *Laura Jean McKay, ''The Animals in That Country'' *Ronnie Scott, ''The Adversary'' *Craig Silvey, ''Honeybee'' *Pip Williams, ''The Dictionary of Lost Words'' * Daniel Davis Wood, ''At the Edge of the Solid World'' *Evie Wyld, ''The Bass Rock'' Children's and young adult fiction * K.M. Allan, ''Blackbirch: The Beginning'' * Sarah Allen, ''Busy Beaks'' * Davina Bell, ''The End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bradley (Australian Writer)
James Bradley (born 1967) is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer. Bradley's novels, which have been published internationally, explore both past and future. His books include seven novels and a book of poetry. He has also edited two anthologies, ''Blur'', a collection of writing by young Australian writers, and ''The Penguin Book of the Ocean''. Bradley also writes as a critic, with reviews and articles appearing regularly in Australian newspapers and magazines, and blogs at City of Tongues. In 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Criticism and was named Australian Critic of the Year. He lives in Sydney with his partner, the novelist Mardi McConnochie. Bibliography Bradley's novels explore both past and future. The first, '' Wrack'' explores questions about the nature of history and the imaginary origins of Australia, drawing together the story of the semi-mythical " Mahogany Ship", a Portugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zana Fraillon
Zana Fraillon (born 1981) is an Australian writer of fiction for children and young adults based in Melbourne, Australia. Fraillon is known for allowing young readers to examine human rights abuses within fiction and in 2017 she won an Amnesty CILIP Honour for her book ''The Bone Sparrow'' which highlights the plight of the Rohingya people. ''The Bone Sparrow'' has been translated to stage and is set to premier in the York Theatre Royal, York, UK, from 25 February 2022. Biography Fraillon was born in Melbourne and spent her early childhood in San Francisco. She was an avid reader as a child and grew up surrounded by books. She attributes a vision problem that was not diagnosed until she was seven as the reason she was more focussed on books than the world around her. Fraillon studied history, spent a year teaching in China and returned to Melbourne to study and work as a teacher. Fraillon is from a family of writers and began writing fun picture books with her son. A friend en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Buist
Anne Buist is an Australian researcher and practising psychiatrist specializing in women's mental health, in particular postpartum psychiatric illnesses. She is also a novelist, author of the Natalie King crime fiction series, and co-author, with her husband Graeme Simsion, of the novels ''Two Steps Forward'' (2017) and ''Two Steps Onward'' (2021). Education Buist has an M.B.B.S. from Monash University in 1981 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1989. She has an MMed from the University of Melbourne for research into infants exposed to antidepressants in breastmilk in 1992, and an MD from the University of Melbourne in 1999 for her study of the long-term effects of childhood abuse. Career From 1993 to 1997, Buist was Director of Psychiatry at the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. She was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne in 1997 and Professor - Director of Women's Mental Heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunt For Morrigan Crow
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Jessica Townsend
Jessica Townsend (born 18 April 1985 in Caloundra, Queensland) is an Australian author known for the children's fantasy novel series, '' The Nevermoor series''. Her debut novel ''Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow '' won the Book of the Year Award at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature. At the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature ''Nevermoor'' won both the Premier's Award for best overall published work and the Children's award. It also won the 2018 Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Younger Fiction. Film rights to ''Nevermoor'' were sold to 20th Century Fox in 2016. Screenwriter Drew Goddard has been selected to adapt the screenplay. Works ''The Nevermoor series'' * '' Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow'' (2017) * '' Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow'' (2018) * '' Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow'' (2020) *''Silverborn: The Mystery o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include '' The Red Tree'' and '' The Arrival''. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garth Nix
Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the ''Old Kingdom'', '' Seventh Tower'' and '' Keys to the Kingdom'' series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name." Biography Born in Melbourne, Nix was raised in Canberra. He attended Turner Primary School, Lyneham High School and Dickson College for schooling. While at Dickson College, Nix joined the Australian Army Reserve. After a period working for the Australian government, he traveled in Europe before returning to Australia in 1983 and undertaking a BA in professional writing at Canberra University. He worked in a Canberra bookshop after graduation, before moving to Sydney in 1987, where he worked his way up in the publishing field. He was a sales rep and publicist before becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Nannestad
Katrina Nannestad is an Australian writer of books for children. Career Following her graduation from the University of New England, Armidale with qualifications in English and education, Nannestad began her career as a school teacher. Her first book, ''Bungaloo Creek'', was published by ABC Books in 2001. Annie Waters concluded her review of ''We Are Wolves'' saying, "I guarantee that the Wolf children will find a place in your heart". As of 2022, Nannestad was living in Bendigo, Victoria. Awards ''The Girl Who Brought Mischief'' * Winner, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2014 ''We Are Wolves'' * Winner, Children and Young Adult category, Historical Novel Society Australasia, 2021 * Winner, Children's Literature Award, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Murphy
Sally Murphy is an Australian children's author and poet. Her works include verse novels, picture books, and educational titles. Early life and education Sally Murphy was born in Perth, Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ..., the youngest of six children, and grew up in the southwest town of Collie, Western Australia, Collie. She started writing stories at a young age, entering local writing competitions throughout her childhood. After leaving school she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia and a Teaching Diploma at Edith Cowan University. Career Writing Her first book, a book of printable educational activities, ''Speak Out'', was published by Ready Ed Publications in 1997. Since then she has had many book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaclyn Moriarty
Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction. Biography Moriarty was raised in the north-west suburbs of Sydney. She has four sisters and one brother. Two of her sisters, Liane and Nicola, are also novelists. Moriarty studied English and Law at the University of Sydney upon graduating from high school. She then complete a Masters in Law at Yale University and a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge She worked as an entertainment and media lawyer for four years before becoming a full-time writer. The literary agent who picked up her first book, ''Feeling Sorry for Celia'', was Australian author Garth Nix. Moriarty was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney. The Ashbury/Brookfield series The Ashbury/Brookfield Series is four novels that are n ... [...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] |
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