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Carpentaria (novel)
''Carpentaria'' is the second novel by the indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007. Plot introduction The novel tells the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland. There, the Aboriginal people of the Pricklebush clan are engaged in a number of argumentative conflicts with various enemies in the community, including the white inhabitants of Desperance, the local law enforcement and government officials, and a large multinational mining operation that has been established on their traditional sacred land. The narrative chronicles the interpersonal relationships shared between three men embroiled in these disputes: the wise, pragmatic, and blunt Normal Phantom; the nomadic, overzealous shamanic practitioner o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giramondo Publishing
Giramondo Publishing (Giramondo Publishing Company) is an independent Australian literary small press founded in 1995. It is a publisher of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Australian and overseas writers, and works in translation from Chinese, German, Spanish, French and Hindi. It also published ''HEAT'' magazine in two series from 1996 to 2012. Giramondo is supported by the Australia Council and Arts NSW. Its works are distributed by NewSouth. History Giramondo was founded by Ivor Indyk and Evelyn Juers, who have worked as its publishers up until the present day. The company’s initial publishing output was in the literary journal ''HEAT'', which gave space to emerging and established authors both from Australia and overseas, often in translation. In 2001, Giramondo moved with Indyk to the University of Newcastle. In 2005, it moved again to join the Writing and Society Research Group at Western Sydney University’s Bankstown campus. It relocated its offices to the univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published Weekly newspaper, weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been published by Time USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. History ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALS Gold Medal Winning Works
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Novels Set In Queensland
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Award-winning Works
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Australian Magic Realism Novels
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery *Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister – Mark Vaile **Opposition Leader – Kim Beazley (until 4 December), then Kevin Rudd * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma **Opposition Leader – Peter Debnam *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Opposition Leader – Lawrence Springborg (until 18 September), then Jeff Seeney *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Rob Kerin (until 18 March), then Iain Evans *Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon **Opposition Leader – Rene Hidding (until 30 March), then Will Hodgman *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks **Opposition Leader – Robert Doyle (until 8 May), then Ted Baillieu *Premier of Western Australia – Geoff Gallop (until 16 January), then Alan Carpenter **Opposition Leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Australian Novels
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2007 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2007. Events *''Surrender'' by Sonya Hartnett, and ''The Book Thief'' by Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. *"The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores. *The small township of Clunes, about 20 kilometres north of Ballarat in Victoria, decides to try to set up Australia's first dedicated booktown. The first weekend event takes place on 20 May. *AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), the major Australian literature resource for research and teaching housed at the University of Queensland, announces the commencement of "Black Words", a literary website specialising in Australian Indigenous writers and storytellers and their works. *Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop, announces that the Australian Government will allocate fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time We Have Taken
''The Time We Have Taken'' is a 2007 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following ''The Art of the Engine Driver'' and ''The Gift of Speed'', which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s. The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time' and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.' Awards *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: winner *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: winner *Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007: shortlisted *The Age Book of the Year ''The Age'' Book of the Year Awards were annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. After 1998, they were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Desmond Kale
''The Ballad of Desmond Kale'' is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald Hugh Roger McDonald (born 23 June 1941 in Young, New South Wales) is an Australian award-winning author of several novels and a number of non-fiction works. He is also an accomplished poet and TV scriptwriter. Life and career The middle son of .... Dedication For Lorna McDonald with love and thanks for gifts of conversation, friendship, and example over a lifetime External links ;Reviews"The Age" 2005 Australian novels Miles Franklin Award-winning works {{2000s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
