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Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood (born 1965) is an Australian novelist. ''The Australian'' newspaper described Wood as "one of our [Australia's] most original and provocative writers". Biography Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She is the author of six novels – ''Pieces of a Girl'' (1999), ''The Submerged Cathedral (novel), The Submerged Cathedral'' (2004), ''The Children'' (2007), ''Animal People'' (2011), ''The Natural Way of Things'' (2015) and ''The Weekend'' (2019). She has also written a collection of interviews with Australian writers, ''The Writer's Room'' (2016), a collection of personal reflections on cooking, ''Love & Hunger'' (2012). She was also editor of an anthology of writing about siblings, ''Brothers & Sisters'' (2009). Her books have been critically well received and frequently mentioned in prize lists. In 2016 ''The Natural Way of Things'' won the Stella Prize, the Indie Book Awards Novel of the Year and Book of the Year, and was short-listed for various other priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooma
Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway. It is also on the Snowy Mountains Highway, connecting Bega with the Riverina. At the , Cooma had a population of 6,742. Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region. It is above sea level. The name could have derived from an Aboriginal word ''Coombah'', meaning 'big lake' or 'open country'. Cooma is south of the banks of the Murrumbidgee River The Murrumbidgee River () is a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia. It flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, desce ..., a main tributary of the Murray–Darling basin. Cooma sources its water from the river. History The area now known as Cooma lies on the traditional lands of the Ngarigo people. Cooma was explored by Captain J. M. Currie in 1823. It was first su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Government. Before the establishment of the order, Australian citizens received British honours. The Monarch of Australia is sovereign head of the order, while the Governor-General of Australia is the principal companion/dame/knight (as relevant at the time) and chancellor of the order. The governor-general's official secretary, Paul Singer (appointed August 2018), is secretary of the order. Appointments are made by the governor-general on behalf of the Monarch of Australia, based on recommendations made by the Council of the Order of Australia. Recent knighthoods and damehoods were recommended to the governor-general by the Prime Minister of Australia. Levels of membership The order is divided into a general and a military division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sturt University Alumni
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Cooma
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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The Natural Way Of Things
''The Natural Way of Things'' (2015) is a novel by Australian writer Charlotte Wood. It won the Stella Prize, for writing by Australian women, in 2016. Plot summary Ten young women are held prisoner somewhere in the Australian bush by two male guards and a woman who purports to be a nurse. The women come to discover that they are all connected in that they are all the victims of sexual scandals. They have been kidnapped and kept out of society's view in order for the scandal to die down. But they are also humiliated, and physically and emotionally punished. Critical reception Rosemary Sorenson in ''The Sydney Review of Books'', is in no doubt about the novel's worth: "Charlotte Wood’s fifth novel ''The Natural Way of Things'' is a virtuoso performance, plotted deftly through a minefield of potential traps, weighted with allegory yet swift and sure in its narrative advance. As an idea for a novel, it’s rich, and to achieve that idea the writer has been courageous. Her cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria. Life and career Kennedy graduated from the University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel ''The World Beneath'', which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for ''The Age'' fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including ''The New Yorker''. Her collection, ''Dark Roots'', was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir ''Sing, and Don’t Cry'', and the poetry collections ''Joyflight'' and ''Signs of Other Fires''. Her book ''The Taste of River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegan Bennett Daylight
Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories. She is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers. She is the author of ''Bombora'' (1996), ''What Falls Away'' (2001) and ''Safety'' (2006). ''Bombora'' was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of ''The Sydney Morning Herald''’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Bennett Daylight's story collection ''Six Bedrooms'', was published by Vintage in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Daylight also works as a Creative Writing lecturer at Western Sydney University. Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick. Publications Novels * ''Bombora'' (1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. Early life Tsiolkas was born and raised in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents, and was educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed his Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987. He edited the student newspaper '' Farrago'' in 1987. Career Tsiolkas' first novel, '' Loaded'' (1995), about an alienated closet gay youth in Melbourne, was adapted as the feature film '' Head On'' (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. His fourth novel, '' The Slap'', was published in 2008, and won several awards as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. It was also highly successful commercially; it was the fourth-highest selling book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nam Le
Nam Le (Vietnamese: ''Lê Nam''; born 1978) is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book ''The Boat'', a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in many places including ''Best Australian Stories 2007'', ''Best New American Voices'', ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', ''A Public Space'' and ''One Story''. In 2008 he was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. Life and early career Nam Le came to Australia from Vietnam with his parents, when he was less than a year old, as a boat refugee.Metherell, Gia (2008) "Vietnamese refugee wins top English literary award", ''The Canberra Times'', 11 November 2008 He attended Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). His Arts thesis supervisor was the Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe. He worked as a corporate lawyer and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2003/2004. Le decided to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALS Gold Medal
The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, when the two organisations were merged. Award winners 2020s * 2022: Andy Jackson, ''Human Looking'' * 2021: Nardi Simpson – ''Song of the Crocodile'' *2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green — ''Nganajungu Yagu'' 2010s * 2019: Pam Brown — ''click here for what we do'' * 2018: Shastra Deo – ''The Agonist'' * 2017: Zoe Morrison – ''Music and Freedom'' * 2016: Brenda Niall – ''Mannix'' * 2015: Jennifer Maiden – ''Drones and Phantoms'' * 2014: Alexis Wright – ''The Swan Book'' * 2013: Michelle de Kretser – ''Questions of Travel'' * 2012: Gillian Mears – ''Foal's Bread'' * 2011: Kim Scott – '' That Deadman Dance'' * 2010: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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