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Horne Prize
The Horne Prize is an Australian award established by Aēsop and ''The Saturday Paper'' in 2016 for a literary essay of up to 3000 words on Australian life. The prize is valued at $15,000 (Australian) and named in honour of Donald Horne (1921–2005) in recognition of his contribution to literature and journalism in Australia. The inaugural winner was Anna Spargo-Ryan for ''The Suicide Gene''. In 2018 a guideline was introduced concerning the need for people from minority groups to tell their own stories. On learning of this restriction two judges, Anna Funder and David Marr resigned from the panel. The restriction was subsequently removed and the closing date for entries extended by one month. The winner was selected by the remaining three judges, Erik Jensen, Suzanne Santos and Marcia Langton. Award winners Shortlists Winners in bold. 2016 * Chelsea Bond, ''Mythologies of Aboriginal Culture'' * Barry Jones, ''The Courage Party'' * Anna McGahan, ''Brightness'' * Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop (brand)
Aesop (stylised as Aēsop) is an Australian luxury cosmetics brand owned by Brazilian company Natura & Co that produces skin, hair, and body care products headquartered in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Aesop was established in 1987 by Dennis Paphitis in Armadale, several suburbs away from the brand's current headquarters. At the time, Paphitis owned and operated a hair salon named Emeis where part of his business involved blending essential oils into hair products. After continued success, he rebranded to Aesop. Naming the brand after the Greek fabulist and storyteller was an intentional ploy by Paphitis to mock the puffery exhibited in the advertising of competing cosmetic brands. He eventually sold the brand to Naturua & Co while maintaining a role as advisor. Each Aesop store has a unique interior design developed in collaboration with various architects, interior designers and artists. As of 2019, the brand had over 320 points of sale across 25 countries.Amelia ChiaI' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Awards Established In 2016
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carly Findlay
Carly Findlay (born 1981) is an Australian writer, speaker, and online influencer. Findlay describes herself as an 'appearance activist', and has been outspoken on a number of disability-related issues. She has been particularly vocal on the right to privacy of children with a disability as well as the importance of representation and inclusion of disabled people both in general life, and particularly in fashion. Findlay makes use of social media to document her love of fashion, food, as well as the treatment and ableism she faces because she has ichthyosis, a genetic disorder that affects her skin and hair. She has built a business and personal brand around being disabled Biography Early life Findlay's parents courted illegally for four years in South Africa during the Apartheid and moved to Australia in order to marry in 1981. Her mother Jeanette was classified as coloured South African, while her father Roger was an Englishman. Findlay was born on 8 December 1981 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Wright
Fiona Wright (born 1983) is an Australian poet and critic. Life and career Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, New South Wales. Wright has completed residencies including an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmanian Writers' Centre in 2007. She received an Emerging Writers' Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010. Wright's debut collection of poetry, ''Knuckled'' (2011) was awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012. Her book ''Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger'' (2015) is a collection of ten essays that detail the author's own experience with anorexia. ''Small Acts of Disappearance'' won the 2016 Kibble Award, which recognises life writing by women writers, and the 2016 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for both the 2016 Stella Prize and the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction. She completed a PhD at the Western Sydney University, Writing and Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire G
Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, municipality located on the Island of Montreal * Clair, Saskatchewan United States * Lake Claire (Atlanta), Georgia, neighborhood * Le Claire, Iowa, city in Scott County * Eau Claire, Michigan, village in Berrien County * Eau Claire, Pennsylvania, borough in Butler County * Claire City, South Dakota, town in Roberts County * Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city * Eau Claire County, Wisconsin * Saint Clair, Missouri, city * St. Clair County, Michigan * St. Clair, Michigan, city * St. Clair, Minnesota, city * St. Clair, Pennsylvania, city * St. Clair Shores, Michigan, city Scotland * Clair oilfield in the Atlantic Ocean, 75 km west of Shetland Other uses * Clair (Hampshire cricketer), English professional cricketer * "Clair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is an Australian doctor and author of two books, ''Australia Day'' (2017) and ''Room for a Stranger'' (2019). Cheng draws upon her biracial, Chinese-Australian heritage as well as her experience as a medical professional to inform her fictional work. ''Australia Day'' is Cheng's debut fictional work. It is a collection of fourteen short stories exploring the multicultural nature of the Australian experience. It was the recipient of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Her second book, ''Room for a Stranger'', was published in 2019 and has received critical acclaim, including being longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize for her essay, "All the Other Stories". Cheng has also published numerous articles on her experiences in general practice to journalism outlets such as the ABC and SBS. She continues to write and practice medicine. She currently resides with her husband and two children in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (activist)
Samuel William Watson (16 November 1952 – 27 November 2019), also known as Sammy Watson Jnr, was an Aboriginal Australian activist from the 1970s, who in later life stood as a Socialist Alliance candidate. He is known for being a co-founder of the Australian Black Panther Party in 1971/2. Through work at the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service in the early 1990s, Watson was involved in implementing the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. From 2009 was deputy director at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland. He was also a writer and a filmmaker, and received honours for his 1990 novel ''The Kadaitcha Sung''. Life Watson was the grandson of Sam Watson, who was of the Birri Gubba nation. His grandfather worked in ring-barking camps and saved enough money to hire a lawyer to release him from the ''Aboriginal Protection Act 1869''. He was one of the first Aboriginal people to achieve this status. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Mills
Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. Career Mills lived in Alice Springs. She was the winner of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the 2008-9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. She was shortlisted for the 2009 Manchester Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Island magazine, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, The Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories. In 2012, Mills was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists. Her essay, ''Swimming with Aliens'', was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize. She is the fiction editor at Overland and a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors. Her 2018 novel, ''Dyschronia'', was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna McGahan
Anna McGahan (born 2 May 1988) is an Australian actress and playwright, who has appeared in Australian television, film and theatre. She is best known for playing the roles of Nellie Cameron in the Australian television series, '' Underbelly: Razor'' (2011), Lucy in ''House Husbands'' (2012-2014), and Rose Anderson in The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2015-2018). She received the Queensland Young Playwright's Award in 2008 and 2009, and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award in 2010, for her play 'He's Seeing Other People Now'. She co-wrote the immersive theatre piece 'The People of the Sun' with Joel McKerrow, which toured Melbourne and Sydney in 2016 and 2017. In 2016 she was shortlisted for The Saturday Paper's national essay award, the Horne Prize. Career McGahan has appeared in Australian film, television and theatre. Her most notable appearance to date is starring as Nellie Cameron in the hit Australian TV series '' Underbelly: Razor'', in which she plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Jones (Australian Politician)
Barry Owen Jones, (born 11 October 1932), is an Australian polymath, writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures. Early life Barry Jones was born in Geelong, Victoria, and educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where he studied arts and law. He began his career as a schoolteacher at Dandenong High School, where he taught for nine years, before becoming a household name as an Australian quiz champion in the 1960s on Bob Dyer's ''Pick a Box'', a radio show from 1948, televised from 1957. He was known for taking issue with Dyer about certain expected answers, most famously in response to a question about "the first British Governor-General of India", where he pointed out that Warren Hastings was technically only the Governor-General of the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea Watego
Chelsea Joanne Watego (formerly Bond, born 1978/1979) is an Aboriginal Australian academic and writer. She is a Mununjali Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman and is currently Professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of Technology. Her first book, ''Another Day in the Colony'', was published in 2021. Personal life Watego was born in 1978 or 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland, and is the daughter of Vern and Elaine Watego. Vern was Mununjali Yugambeh (an Australian Aboriginal group whose traditional lands are located around Beaudesert in South East Queensland) and South Sea Islander, while Elaine is of English and Irish descent. Through Vern, her great-great-great-grandfather was Bilin Bilin, a well known Yugambeh man and diplomat who died in 1901. She has five children (Kihi, Maya, Eliakim, Vernon and George) with her ex-husband, Matt Bond. Academic career Watego studied a Bachelor of Applied Health Science at the University of Queensland (UQ), graduating with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
