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Mary Gilmore Prize
__NOTOC__ The Mary Gilmore Award is currently an annual Australian literary award for poetry, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Since being established in 1956 as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award, it has been awarded in several other categories, but has been confined to poetry since 1985. It was named in honour of writer and journalist Mary Gilmore (1865–1962). History The Mary Gilmore Award was established in 1956 by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award to encourage literature "significant to the life and aspirations of the Australian people". Over the years it has been awarded for a range of categories, including novels, poetry, a three-act (full-length) play, and a short story. In 1959 it was organised by the May Day Committees of Melbourne, Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Sullivan
The surname Thom is of Scottish origin, from the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Angus, and is a sept of the Clan MacThomas. Thom is also a first name variant of the abbreviation " Tom" of "Thomas" that holds the "h". People with the surname * Alexander Thom (other), multiple people * Andreas Thom (b. 1965), former German football player * Bing Thom (b. 1940), Canadian architect * Cameron E. Thom (1825–1915), early settler in California, Confederate officer and lawyer * Charles Thom (1872–1956), US microbiologist and mycologist with the standard author abbreviation "Thom" * Cristy Thom (b. 1971), American model, actress and artist * Graeme Thom (born 1967), Zimbabwean cricketer * H. B. Thom (c. 1905–1983), South African rector and Chancellor of the Stellenbosch University * James Thom (other), multiple people * Jess Thom (b. 1980), English comedian * John Thom (soldier) (1891–1941), British lieutenant-colonel, judge and politician * John Hamilton Th ... [...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] |
2012 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012. Events *Clive James is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to literature and the media" in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours List. *Five literary figures are named in the Australia Day Honours: Paul Brunton, Stuart Macintyre, Roy Masters, Ros Pesman and Carol Woodrow. * Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries' 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford "to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active: literature, culture, science, and communication". *Incoming Premier Campbell Newman cancels the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. *In response, a week later, the new Queensland Literary Awards are announced. The awards use a crowd-funding campaign to raise the prize-money for their initial set of awards. *Sophie Cunn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Review Of Books
The ''Sydney Review of Books'' is an online literary magazine established in 2013. According to the journal's editor James Ley it was created to address shortcomings in Australian book reviews. Awards In 2019 SRB contributor Fiona Kelly McGregor won the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Non-Fiction foher essayon Kathleen Mary Fallon's 'Working Hot'. In 2019 SRB contributor Jeff Sparrow won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism fohis review essayof Behrouz Boochani's ''No Friend But The Mountains''. In 2018 SRB contributor Delia Falconer won this award foan essay on writing and extinctionentitled 'The Opposite of Glamour'. Funding The journal is funded by Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre, the Australia Council, Create NSW Create NSW is a government agency of the Government of New South Wales, that falls within the Enterprise, Investment and Trade cluster. The agency was created on 1 April 2017 from an amalgamation of Arts NSW (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Lucas
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Their flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwestern Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant. Roses have acquired cultural significance in many societies. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach seven meters in height. Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses. Etymology The name ''rose'' comes from Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Benedict Andrews
Benedict Andrews is an Australian theatre and film director, based in Reykjavík. Born in Adelaide in 1972, he was educated at Flinders University Drama Centre. His first feature film ''Una'' (an adaption of '' Blackbird'' by David Harrower) was released in 2016. Theatre Andrews has directed for theatres in both Australia and Europe. He is known for his versions of works by Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Jean Genet, and Tennessee Williams, as well as his stagings of contemporary writers such as David Harrower, Martin Crimp, Marius von Mayenburg, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane. His marathon Shakespeare cycle, ''The War of the Roses'' (Sydney Theatre Company, 2009) which was a part of the 2009 Sydney and Perth festivals, received six Helpmann Awards in 2012 including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play, as well as five Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Direction and Best Mainstage Production. The two-night eight-hour production of ''The War of the Roses'' incorporates all eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016. Major publications Literary fiction * Melissa Ashley – ''The Birdman's Wife'' * Georgia Blain – ''Between a Wolf and a Dog'' *Hannah Kent – ''The Good People'' * Heather Rose – '' The Museum of Modern Love'' *Josephine Wilson – ''Extinctions'' Children's and young adult fiction * Trace Balla – ''Rockhopping'' * Maxine Beneba Clarke – ''The Patchwork Bike'' * Andy Griffiths – ''The Tree House Fun Book'' and ''The 78-Storey Treehouse'' * Zana Fraillon – ''The Bone Sparrow'' * Tania McCartney – ''Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings'' *Shivaun Plozza – ''Frankie'' * Richard Roxburgh – ''Artie and the Grime Wave'' * Shaun Tan – ''Tales from Outer Suburbia'' * Claire Zorn – ''One Would Think the Deep'' Crime * Jane Harper – '' The Dry'' * David Whish-Wilson – ''Old Scores'' Science fiction and fantasy * Juliet Marillier – ''Den of Wolve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aden Rolfe
Aden ( ; ar, عدن ' Yemeni Arabic, Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. Aden's natural harbour lies in the crater of a dormant volcano, which now forms a peninsula joined to the mainland by a low isthmus. This harbour, Front Bay, was first used by the ancient Kingdom of Awsan between the 7th to 5th centuries BC. The modern harbour is on the other side of the peninsula. Aden gets its name from the Gulf of Aden. Aden consists of a number of distinct sub-centres: Crater (Yemen), Crater, the original port city; Ma'alla, the modern port; Tawahi (Aden), Tawahi, known as "Steamer Point" in the Colony of Aden, colonial period; and the resorts of Gold Mohur. Khormaksar, on the isthmus that connects Aden proper with the mainland, includes the city's diplomatic missions, the main offices of Aden Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications Literary fiction * Peter Carey – ''A Long Way from Home'' *Felicity Castagna – ''No More Boats'' * J. M. Coetzee – '' The Schooldays of Jesus'' * Michelle de Kretser — '' The Life to Come'' * Robert Drewe — ''Whipbird'' * Richard Flanagan – ''First Person'' * Sofie Laguna — ''The Choke'' *Catherine McKinnon – ''Storyland: The land is a book, waiting to be read'' * Alex Miller — ''The Passage of Love'' * Bram Presser — ''The Book of Dirt'' * Kim Scott — ''Taboo'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Judith Clarke – ''My Lovely Frankie'' *Zana Fraillon – ''The Ones That Disappeared'' * Morris Gleitzman – ''Maybe'' (sequel to ''Once'', ''Then'', ''Now'', ''After'', ''Soon'') * Andy Griffiths – ''The Tree House Fun Book 2'' and ''The 91-Storey Treehouse'' * Jessica Townsend – '' Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinn Eades
Quinn Eades is a Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality & Diversity Studies, best known for both academic work and poetry on queer theory and experience. He is particularly known for integrating his trans-masculine perspective into both academic and personal writing. Early life and education After studying a BA in sociology at University of Newcastle from 1993-2000, he studied creative writing, gaining a graduate certificate from University of Technology Sydney in 2003 and a postgraduate diploma from University of Melbourne in 2010. He did his PhD from 2011 to 2015 in English and gender studies under Sue Martin at La Trobe University, also publishing a collection of poems as a companion volume. Career and impact During his PhD, he founded the interdisciplinary gender, sexuality and diversity academic journal: ''Writing from Below'' in 2012, and is currently the co-managing editor. He also worked as a sessional lecturer in interdisciplinary studies, being made a full lecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
