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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 a Presbyterian minister, Hugh Fraser McDonald, 1909–81, and the Central Queensland historian, Dr Lorna McDonald, 1916–2017, his childhood was spent in the NSW country towns of Bribbaree, Temora, and Bourke, before the family moved to Sydney. He attended The Scots College and the University of Sydney. He was briefly a teacher, ABC producer, and publisher's editor in NSW, Tasmania, and Queensland, before moving to Canberra and taking up writing full-time in 1976, in order to complete his first novel, ''1915''. McDonald has since 1980 lived near Braidwood, NSW, apart from periods in Sydney and New Zealand. His novels are ''1915'', ''Slipstream'', ''Rough Wallaby'', ''Water Man'', ''The Slap'', ''Mr Darwin's Shooter'', ''The Ballad of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Victorian Premier's Prize For Fiction
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The Palmer Prize was valued at 30,000 in 2010. The award was named after Vance Palmer, a leading literary critic. Palmer wrote reviews and presented a program called ''Current Books Worth Reading'' on ABC Radio. He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including ''National Portraits'' (1940) ''A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work'', (1941) ''Frank Wilmot'' (1942), ''Old Australian bush ballads'' (co-au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Scots College (Sydney)
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People From Young, New South Wales
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Miles Franklin Award Winners
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Australian Screenwriters
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Australian Poets
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Australian Non-fiction Writers
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Stories Of Men
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When Colts Ran
''When Colts Ran'' is a 2010 novel by Australian novelist Roger McDonald. Plot summary The "Colts" of the title is the principal character, Kingsley Colts, an orphan being raised by World War I veteran Dunc Buckler and his wife Veronica. The novel follows the arc of Colts's life, from station hand to World War II in New Guinea to livestock agent, broken, forlorn and alcoholic. Notes Epigraph: Peaseblossom.........Ready. Cobweb.......................... And I. Moth ......................................And I Mustardseed....................................And I. All..........................................................Where shall we go? - ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Act III, Scene I Reviews * ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' * ''ANZ LitLovers LitBlog'' Awards and nominations * 2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction * 2011 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award * 2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction * 2011 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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